1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
9 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
13 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
23 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
24 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
26 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
27 selfsigned certificate for inbound TLS connections.
29 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
30 in rewrites and routers.
32 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
33 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
35 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
36 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
38 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
40 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
43 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
44 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
45 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
46 connection after a verify cache hit.
47 Do not update it with the verify result either.
49 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
50 when routing results in more than one destination address.
52 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
53 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
54 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
55 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
56 when the cutthrough connection is made).
58 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
59 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
61 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
62 Previously they were not counted.
67 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
68 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
69 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
70 client dropping the TLS connection.
72 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
73 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
75 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
76 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
77 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
78 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
81 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
82 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
83 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
84 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
85 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
86 check on the next write.
88 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
89 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
90 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
91 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
92 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
94 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
95 mime_regex ACL conditions.
97 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
98 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
99 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
101 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
102 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
103 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
104 an authenticate fail is not an error.
106 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
107 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
109 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
110 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
112 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
113 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
114 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
117 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
119 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
121 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
123 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
124 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
126 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
127 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
129 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
131 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
132 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
134 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
136 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
137 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
139 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
141 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
142 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
143 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
144 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
145 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
146 they will retry in-clear.
147 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
148 at installation time.
150 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
151 with the $config_file variable.
153 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
154 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
155 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
156 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
157 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
159 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
160 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
161 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
162 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
163 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
165 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
167 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
168 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
169 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
170 list order is no longer honoured.
172 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
175 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
176 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
178 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
179 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
180 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
181 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
183 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
184 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
186 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
187 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
189 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
190 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
192 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
194 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
195 cached by the daemon.
197 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
198 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
200 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
201 keys are given for lookup.
203 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
204 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
205 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
206 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
208 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
209 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
210 server-side so match that on older versions.
212 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
213 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
214 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
216 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
217 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
219 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
220 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
221 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
222 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
223 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
224 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
225 initial truncated version.
227 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
229 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
231 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
232 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
234 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
236 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
238 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
239 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
242 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
243 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
246 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
247 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
249 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
250 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
253 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
254 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
255 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
257 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
258 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
259 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
260 extraction. Accept either.
266 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
269 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
271 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
274 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
275 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
276 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
277 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
279 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
280 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
281 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
283 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
284 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
285 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
288 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
291 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
292 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
293 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
294 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
295 have a dsn_lasthop option.
297 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
298 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
299 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
301 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
303 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
304 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
306 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
307 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
309 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
312 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
313 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
315 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
316 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
317 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
319 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
320 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
321 specify a port-range.
323 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
324 timeout value per server.
326 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
327 now have the list separator specified.
329 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
332 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
335 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
337 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
338 rather than the verbs used.
340 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
341 from 255 to 1024 chars.
343 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
345 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
346 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
348 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
349 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
351 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
352 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
354 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
356 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
358 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
359 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
360 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
361 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
363 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
365 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
366 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
368 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
369 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
371 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
373 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
375 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
377 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
378 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
380 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
381 added for tls authenticator.
383 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
388 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
389 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
390 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
391 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
392 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
393 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
394 the script parsing/test process like normal.
396 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
397 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
398 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
399 function when detected.
401 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
402 cause callback expansion.
404 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
405 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
406 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
407 instead of bool when processing it.
409 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
410 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
412 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
414 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
416 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
418 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
419 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
421 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
422 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
423 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
424 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
425 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
426 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
428 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
429 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
432 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
433 version 3.3.6 or later.
435 JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
436 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
437 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
438 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
439 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
440 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
443 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
444 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
446 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
447 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
448 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
451 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
452 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
453 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
455 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
456 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
458 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
459 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
462 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
464 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
465 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
467 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
468 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
471 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
473 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
476 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
477 output list separator was used.
482 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
483 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
486 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
487 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
489 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
491 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
492 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
498 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
500 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
501 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
502 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
503 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
504 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
505 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
507 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
508 utilities have not been installed.
510 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
511 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
513 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
514 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
516 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
517 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
518 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
519 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
521 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
523 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
524 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
526 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
529 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
531 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
532 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
533 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
535 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
536 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
537 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
538 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
539 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
540 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
542 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
544 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
545 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
547 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
550 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
552 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
554 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
555 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
557 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
558 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
560 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
562 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
564 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
565 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
567 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
568 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
569 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
571 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
572 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
573 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
576 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
578 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
579 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
582 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
583 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
586 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
587 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
589 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
590 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
592 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
594 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
595 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
596 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
598 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
599 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
601 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
602 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
605 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
606 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
607 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
609 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
611 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
612 Christian Aistleitner.
614 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
616 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
617 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
619 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
620 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
622 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
623 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
625 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
626 support and error reporting did not work properly.
628 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
629 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
631 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
632 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
633 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
635 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
637 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
638 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
641 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
643 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
644 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
651 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
653 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
654 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
656 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
659 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
660 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
663 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
665 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
666 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
667 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
668 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
669 using channel bindings instead).
671 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
672 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
673 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
674 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
675 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
678 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
680 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
682 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
683 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
685 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
686 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
687 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
689 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
691 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
693 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
694 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
696 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
698 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
700 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
702 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
703 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
705 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
707 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
708 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
711 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
712 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
714 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
715 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
718 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
720 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
722 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
723 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
725 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
728 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
729 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
731 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
732 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
734 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
736 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
738 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
741 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
744 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
746 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
747 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
748 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
749 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
751 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
753 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
754 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
755 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
756 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
759 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
760 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
761 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
763 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
764 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
765 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
766 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
768 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
769 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
770 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
771 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
772 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
773 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
774 delivery, as in LMTP.
776 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
777 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
779 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
781 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
785 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
786 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
787 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
788 username as equal to the username.
790 This change corrects that bug.
792 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
793 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
794 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
796 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
798 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
799 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
800 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
801 NULL dereference and crash.
803 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
805 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
806 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
807 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
809 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
811 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
812 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
813 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
814 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
815 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
816 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
817 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
818 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
819 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
820 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
821 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
823 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
824 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
826 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
827 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
830 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
831 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
832 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
833 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
834 an empty string is now equivalent.
836 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
837 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
838 not performing validation itself.
840 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
841 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
843 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
846 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
848 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
849 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
850 other false fix of the same issue.
851 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
854 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
855 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
857 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
858 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
859 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
861 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
862 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
863 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
865 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
867 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
869 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
870 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
872 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
875 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
876 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
877 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
878 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
879 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
881 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
882 the src/util/ subdirectory.
884 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
885 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
888 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
889 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
890 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
891 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
893 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
895 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
896 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
897 from multiple comments on this bug.
899 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
901 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
902 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
905 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
906 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
908 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
909 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
915 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
917 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
923 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
924 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
925 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
927 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
929 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
932 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
934 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
936 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
938 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
939 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
941 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
942 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
944 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
945 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
947 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
948 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
949 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
951 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
953 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
954 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
956 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
958 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
960 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
961 non-compliant senders.
962 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
964 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
965 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
966 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
968 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
969 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
970 in spool file corruption.
972 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
973 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
974 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
977 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
978 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
979 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
981 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
982 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
984 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
986 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
988 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
990 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
991 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
992 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
994 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
995 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
996 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
997 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
999 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1000 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1002 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1003 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1004 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1005 resolver implementation change.
1007 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1008 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1010 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1012 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1014 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1015 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1017 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1018 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1020 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1021 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1023 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1024 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1025 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1026 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1027 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1029 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1031 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1032 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1033 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1035 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1037 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1038 read-only, out of scope).
1039 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1041 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1042 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1043 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1044 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1046 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1048 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1049 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1050 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1051 real issues in debug logging.
1053 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1054 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1056 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1057 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1058 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1060 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1061 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1062 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1065 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1066 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1068 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1069 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1070 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1071 needs to override this, it can.
1073 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1074 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1075 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1077 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1078 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1079 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1080 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1082 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1088 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1089 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1091 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1093 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1096 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1097 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1099 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1100 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1101 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1103 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1104 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1105 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1106 not safe for signals.
1108 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1109 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1110 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1111 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1114 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1116 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1117 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1118 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1119 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1120 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1122 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1123 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1124 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1125 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1126 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1127 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1129 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1130 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1131 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1132 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1134 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1135 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1136 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1137 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1139 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1140 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1141 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1142 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1143 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1144 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1145 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1146 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1147 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1149 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1150 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1151 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1152 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1154 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1155 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1156 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1157 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1158 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1159 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1160 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1161 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1162 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1163 details in the main documentation.
1165 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1167 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1169 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1170 repository when doing development or release builds.
1172 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1173 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1175 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1176 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1179 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1181 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1182 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1184 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1185 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1187 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1188 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1190 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1191 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1193 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1194 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1196 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1198 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1201 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1202 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1203 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1205 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1207 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1209 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1210 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1216 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1218 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1219 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1221 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1223 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1225 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1228 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1229 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1231 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1232 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1234 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1235 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1237 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1240 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1241 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1243 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1244 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1245 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1246 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1248 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1249 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1255 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1258 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1259 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1260 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1262 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1263 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1265 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1266 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1267 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1269 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1270 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1272 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1273 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1275 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1276 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1278 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1279 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1281 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1282 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1284 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1287 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1288 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1290 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1291 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1293 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1294 SQL string expansion failure details.
1295 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1297 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1298 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1300 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1301 extern declarations in function scope.
1302 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1304 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1305 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1306 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1309 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1310 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1312 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1313 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1315 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1316 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1318 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1319 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1321 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1322 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1325 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1327 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1329 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1330 Patch by Simon Arlott
1332 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1333 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1339 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1340 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1342 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1343 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1345 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1347 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1348 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1349 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1351 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1352 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1353 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1355 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1356 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1357 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1358 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1360 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1361 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1362 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1363 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1365 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1366 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1367 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1370 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1373 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1374 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1375 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1376 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1377 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1383 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1384 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1385 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1387 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1388 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1390 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1392 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1394 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1396 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1398 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1400 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1401 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1402 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1403 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1405 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1406 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1407 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1408 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1409 more caution in buffer sizes.
1411 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1413 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1415 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1417 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1419 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1421 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1423 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1425 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1426 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1427 ignore trailing whitespace.
1429 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1431 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1434 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1435 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1437 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1438 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1439 Notification from John Horne.
1441 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1444 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1445 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1448 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1451 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1452 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1453 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1455 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1456 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1457 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1460 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1461 option (effectively making it always true).
1463 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1464 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1466 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1467 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1469 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1470 run-time user, instead of root.
1472 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1473 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1475 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1476 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1479 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1480 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1481 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1483 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1485 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1491 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1492 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1495 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1496 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1499 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1500 Patch from Alain Williams
1502 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1504 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1505 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1507 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1508 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1510 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1512 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1514 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1515 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1517 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1519 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1521 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1522 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1523 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1525 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1526 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1528 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1529 Patch by Simon Arlott
1531 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1532 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1538 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1540 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1542 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1544 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1546 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1552 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1553 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1555 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1556 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1559 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1560 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1561 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1563 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1564 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1566 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1567 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1568 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1569 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1571 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1572 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1573 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1575 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1577 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1579 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1580 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1582 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1584 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1585 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1586 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1587 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1589 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1590 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1592 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1594 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1596 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1597 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1599 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1600 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1602 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1603 that they are available at delivery time.
1605 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1607 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1608 incoming_port log selectors.
1610 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1611 setting expands to an empty string.
1613 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1614 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1616 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1617 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1619 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1620 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1622 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1623 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1625 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1626 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1628 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1629 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1631 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1633 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1634 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1636 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1637 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1639 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1641 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1642 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1644 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1646 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1648 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1651 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1652 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1654 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1655 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1657 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1658 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1660 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1661 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1663 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1664 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1666 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1667 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1669 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1670 plus update to original patch.
1672 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1674 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1675 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1677 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1679 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1681 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1683 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1685 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1686 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1688 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1689 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1691 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1692 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1694 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1695 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1697 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1699 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1701 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1703 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1709 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1710 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1711 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1713 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1714 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1715 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1716 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1717 build errors in sieve.c.
1719 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1720 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1721 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1723 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1725 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1727 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1729 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1735 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1737 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1738 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1739 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1740 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1741 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1742 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1743 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1744 for iplsearch lookups.
1746 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1747 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1748 previously such lookups could never work.
1750 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1751 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1752 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1754 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1757 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1758 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1759 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1760 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1761 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1762 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1764 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1765 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1767 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1768 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1769 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1770 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1771 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1772 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1774 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1777 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1779 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1780 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1783 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1784 by clients under certain conditions.
1786 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1787 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1789 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1791 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1792 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1794 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1796 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1798 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1800 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1801 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1803 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1805 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1806 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1808 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1810 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1812 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1813 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1814 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1815 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1817 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1818 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1819 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1821 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1822 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1824 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1826 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1828 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1830 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1831 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1832 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1838 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1839 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1842 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1843 issue a MAIL command.
1845 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1847 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1849 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1850 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1851 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1852 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1853 item. This has been fixed.
1855 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1856 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1858 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1859 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1861 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1862 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1863 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1865 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1867 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1868 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1869 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1870 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1871 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1873 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1874 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1875 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1877 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1878 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1879 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1880 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1882 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1884 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1886 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1887 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1888 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1889 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1890 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1892 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1894 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1895 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1896 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1899 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1901 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1903 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1905 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1907 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1909 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1910 no_callout_flush is set.
1912 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1913 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1914 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1917 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1919 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1920 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1921 other ACL rejections are.
1923 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1924 with slight modification.
1926 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1927 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1929 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1930 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1933 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1934 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1936 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1938 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1939 expansion side effects.
1941 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1942 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1943 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1946 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1947 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1948 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1950 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1951 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1952 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1953 were accidentally chopped off.
1955 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1956 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1957 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1958 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1959 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1960 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1961 pipelining has not been advertised.
1963 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1965 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1966 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1967 This has been fixed.
1969 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1970 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1971 reported on Solaris.
1973 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1974 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1975 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1976 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1977 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1978 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1979 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1981 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1984 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1986 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1988 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1989 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1990 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1991 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1992 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1993 criteria to be more general.
1995 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1996 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1997 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1998 host_all_ignored option.
2000 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2001 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2002 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2003 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2004 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2005 is what is supposed to happen).
2007 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2008 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2009 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2010 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2011 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2014 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2015 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2016 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2017 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2018 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2019 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2022 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2024 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2025 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2027 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2028 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2030 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2032 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2034 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2035 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2036 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2037 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2038 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2039 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2040 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2041 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2042 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2043 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2044 least in a lot of common cases.
2046 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2047 advertised in response to EHLO.
2053 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2054 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2056 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2057 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2059 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2060 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2061 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2063 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2064 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2065 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2066 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2067 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2073 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2074 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2077 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2078 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2079 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2081 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2082 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2083 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2084 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2085 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2086 rather than extend the field.
2092 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2093 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2094 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2095 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2098 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2099 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2100 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2102 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2103 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2104 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2106 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2107 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2108 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2111 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2112 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2113 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2114 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2115 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2116 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2117 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2118 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2119 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2120 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2121 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2123 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2126 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2127 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2128 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2129 ignores EPIPE as well.
2131 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2132 (quoted-printable decoding).
2134 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2135 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2137 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2139 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2141 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2143 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2144 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2146 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2149 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2150 miscellaneous code fixes
2152 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2155 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2156 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2157 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2158 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2159 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2160 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2161 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2162 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2164 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2165 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2166 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2167 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2169 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2170 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2171 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2172 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2173 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2174 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2175 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2176 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2177 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2179 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2182 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2183 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2184 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2185 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2186 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2187 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2188 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2189 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2191 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2192 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2195 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2196 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2197 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2198 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2199 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2200 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2201 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2202 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2203 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2204 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2205 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2206 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2207 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2209 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2210 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2211 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2212 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2213 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2214 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2215 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2217 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2218 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2219 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2220 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2221 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2222 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2223 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2224 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2225 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2226 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2228 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2229 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2230 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2231 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2232 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2234 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2235 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2236 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2237 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2238 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2239 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2240 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2242 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2243 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2244 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2245 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2246 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2247 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2250 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2251 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2252 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2255 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2256 if any retry times were supplied.
2258 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2259 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2260 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2262 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2264 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2266 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2267 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2268 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2269 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2270 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2271 before) are ignored.
2273 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2274 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2276 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2277 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2278 committing the later change.]
2280 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2281 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2282 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2283 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2284 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2285 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2286 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2287 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2288 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2290 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2291 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2292 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2293 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2294 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2295 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2296 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2297 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2298 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2300 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2301 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2302 hammering the server.
2304 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2305 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2307 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2309 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2310 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2311 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2313 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2314 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2315 one case where this was not true.
2317 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2318 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2319 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2320 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2323 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2324 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2325 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2326 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2327 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2328 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2329 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2330 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2331 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2334 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2335 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2336 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2337 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2339 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2340 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2342 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2343 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2344 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2346 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2348 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2350 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2352 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2353 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2354 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2355 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2357 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2358 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2360 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2361 be meaningful with "accept".
2363 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2364 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2366 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2367 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2368 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2370 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2371 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2372 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2373 there is data to show.
2374 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2376 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2377 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2378 as well as the number of messages.
2380 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2381 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2382 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2384 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2385 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2386 have a flag are now skipped.
2388 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2389 Added the -emptyok flag.
2391 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2392 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2394 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2395 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2396 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2398 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2401 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2402 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2404 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2406 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2407 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2409 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2411 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2412 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2413 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2414 contravention of the specifications.
2416 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2417 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2418 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2420 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2421 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2422 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2424 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2426 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2427 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2428 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2429 some point in the past.
2431 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2432 transport during callout processing was broken.
2434 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2435 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2437 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2438 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2440 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2441 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2443 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2449 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2450 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2452 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2453 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2454 there is data to show.
2455 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2457 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2458 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2460 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2461 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2463 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2464 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2466 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2467 submissions from trusted users.
2469 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2470 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2472 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2473 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2474 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2475 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2476 there is now a framework to start from.
2478 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2479 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2480 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2482 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2484 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2486 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2488 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2489 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2490 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2492 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2495 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2496 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2497 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2499 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2500 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2501 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2504 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2505 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2506 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2507 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2508 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2510 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2511 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2513 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2515 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2516 operations in malware.c.
2518 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2521 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2522 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2523 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2526 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2527 statements to "add_header".
2529 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2530 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2532 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2533 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2536 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2540 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2541 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2542 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2545 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2546 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2548 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2549 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2551 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2552 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2553 any possible encoding problems.
2555 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2556 but not after initializing Perl.
2558 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2559 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2560 apparently, which is not desirable.
2562 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2565 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2568 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2570 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2571 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2572 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2573 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2575 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2576 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2577 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2579 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2580 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2581 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2584 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2585 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2586 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2587 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2588 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2594 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2595 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2597 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2600 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2601 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2602 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2603 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2604 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2605 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2606 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2607 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2610 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2612 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2613 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2614 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2616 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2617 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2618 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2621 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2622 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2624 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2625 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2626 option (which defaults to 0600).
2628 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2630 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2631 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2632 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2633 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2634 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2635 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2636 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2638 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2644 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2645 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2646 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2647 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2648 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2649 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2652 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2653 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2655 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2657 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2658 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2659 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2660 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2661 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2664 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2665 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2667 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2668 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2669 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2670 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2671 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2673 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2674 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2675 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2676 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2678 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2679 be the same on different OS.
2681 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2684 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2685 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2687 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2690 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2691 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2692 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2693 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2694 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2695 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2698 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2699 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2700 when Exim was called.
2702 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2703 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2705 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2706 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2707 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2708 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2710 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2711 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2712 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2713 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2716 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2717 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2718 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2720 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2721 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2722 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2724 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2727 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2728 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2729 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2730 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2731 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2732 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2733 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2734 values from the SRV records were lost.
2736 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2737 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2738 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2740 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2741 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2742 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2744 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2745 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2746 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2747 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2748 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2749 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2750 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2751 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2752 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2753 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2755 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2756 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2757 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2759 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2760 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2762 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2763 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2764 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2765 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2768 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2769 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2770 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2772 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2773 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2774 PH/23 above applies.
2776 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2777 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2778 (for which there is an explicit test).
2780 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2782 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2783 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2784 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2785 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2786 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2788 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2789 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2790 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2791 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2793 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2794 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2795 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2797 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2799 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2801 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2802 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2803 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2805 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2806 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2807 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2808 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2809 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2811 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2812 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2813 the message gets confusing).
2815 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2816 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2817 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2818 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2820 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2821 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2822 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2823 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2826 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2827 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2828 the different processes.
2830 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2832 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2834 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2835 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2837 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2838 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2840 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2841 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2842 messages matching specified criteria.
2844 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2846 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2847 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2849 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2850 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2851 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2852 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2853 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2854 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2855 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2856 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2857 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2858 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2860 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2861 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2862 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2864 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2866 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2867 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2868 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2869 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2870 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2871 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2872 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2875 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2876 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2878 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2880 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2882 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2884 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2885 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2886 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2887 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2888 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2889 size of the count of files.
2891 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2893 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2896 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2897 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2898 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2899 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2901 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2902 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2903 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2905 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2906 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2907 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2908 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2909 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2911 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2912 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2914 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2915 will now be deprecated.
2917 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2919 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2920 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2921 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2923 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2924 with very large, slow to parse queues
2926 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2928 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2930 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2931 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2932 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2935 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2936 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2937 Sieve code now uses this.
2939 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2940 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2942 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2943 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2945 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2947 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2948 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2949 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2950 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2951 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2953 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2954 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2955 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2956 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2958 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2960 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2962 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2963 is preferred over IPv4.
2965 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2966 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2967 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2968 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2969 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2970 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2971 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2973 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2974 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2975 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2977 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2979 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2980 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2981 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2982 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2983 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2984 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2985 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2986 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2987 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2988 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2989 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2991 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2992 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2993 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2999 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3001 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3002 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3004 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3005 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3006 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3008 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3010 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3013 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3016 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3017 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3018 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3021 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3022 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3024 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3025 inside the third argument.
3027 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3028 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3031 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3032 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3034 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3035 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3037 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3039 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3040 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3043 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3045 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3046 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3047 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3048 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3049 identical. For example:
3051 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3053 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3054 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3055 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3057 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3058 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3059 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3060 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3062 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3063 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3064 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3067 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3069 o fixes some comments
3070 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3071 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3072 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3073 and documents the missing references header update
3077 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3078 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3081 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3082 Electronic Mail") by including:
3084 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3086 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3087 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3088 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3089 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3090 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3092 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3094 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3096 The auto-replied keyword:
3098 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3099 message by an automatic process,
3101 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3103 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3104 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3106 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3107 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3110 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3111 to the default Received: header definition.
3113 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3115 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3116 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3117 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3119 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3120 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3121 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3123 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3124 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3125 and treats the condition as false.
3127 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3129 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3130 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3131 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3132 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3133 not changing the active code.
3135 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3136 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3138 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3139 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3141 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3144 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3145 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3146 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3147 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3148 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3149 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3150 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3151 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3152 the text comparison.
3154 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3155 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3156 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3157 The same fix has been applied.
3163 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3164 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3167 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3168 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3170 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3172 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3173 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3174 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3175 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3176 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3178 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3179 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3180 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3181 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3184 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3192 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3193 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3195 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3197 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3199 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3200 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3201 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3203 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3204 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3205 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3207 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3208 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3211 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3212 ${stat: expansion item.
3214 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3215 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3217 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3218 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3221 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3223 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3226 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3227 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3229 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3231 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3232 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3233 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3234 the end of the subprocess.
3236 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3237 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3238 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3239 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3240 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3242 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3244 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3246 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3247 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3249 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3251 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3253 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3254 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3257 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3259 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3260 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3261 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3263 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3264 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3266 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3267 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3269 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3270 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3272 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3273 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3275 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3276 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3277 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3278 contributed by a Radius user.
3280 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3281 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3283 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3284 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3286 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3289 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3290 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3293 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3294 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3295 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3296 header lines when this was not necessary.
3298 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3300 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3301 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3302 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3305 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3308 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3309 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3310 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3311 return code was incorrect.
3313 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3315 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3317 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3319 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3321 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3322 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3323 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3324 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3325 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3328 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3330 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3331 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3332 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3333 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3334 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3335 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3336 which is clearly wrong.
3338 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3340 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3341 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3342 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3345 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3346 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3348 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3350 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3351 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3353 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3354 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3356 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3357 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3359 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3360 recipients, not senders.
3362 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3363 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3365 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3367 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3369 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3370 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3371 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3372 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3374 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3376 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3377 clock is set back in time.
3379 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3380 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3382 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3383 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3385 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3386 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3389 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3390 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3393 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3396 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3398 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3399 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3400 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3402 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3403 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3404 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3405 helo verification defer as a failure.
3407 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3408 actual error message.
3414 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3416 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3417 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3418 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3419 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3421 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3423 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3424 can still be requested.
3426 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3427 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3428 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3429 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3431 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3432 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3433 circumstances, but probably never did.
3435 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3436 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3437 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3440 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3442 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3443 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3445 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3447 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3449 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3450 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3451 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3452 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3453 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3454 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3456 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3457 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3458 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3459 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3460 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3461 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3463 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3464 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3466 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3467 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3469 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3470 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3472 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3474 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3476 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3478 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3480 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3482 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3484 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3486 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3487 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3488 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3490 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3491 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3492 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3493 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3495 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3496 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3497 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3499 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3500 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3501 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3502 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3504 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3505 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3508 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3509 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3510 should work with maildirs and everything.
3512 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3513 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3515 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3518 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3519 function for BDB 4.3.
3521 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3523 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3524 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3527 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3528 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3529 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3530 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3531 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3532 formatting function string_vformat().
3534 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3535 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3536 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3537 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3538 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3539 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3540 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3541 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3543 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3544 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3547 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3548 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3550 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3551 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3552 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3553 test. It is now used for both.
3555 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3556 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3557 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3558 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3559 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3560 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3562 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3563 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3564 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3567 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3568 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3569 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3571 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3572 experimental DomainKeys support:
3574 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3575 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3576 the control was given.
3578 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3580 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3582 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3584 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3585 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3586 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3589 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3590 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3591 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3592 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3593 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3594 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3597 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3598 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3599 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3600 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3601 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3602 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3604 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3605 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3606 do -d+all out of habit.
3608 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3609 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3612 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3613 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3614 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3615 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3616 record types that Exim uses.
3618 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3619 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3620 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3621 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3622 non-existent file that was broken.
3624 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3625 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3627 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3628 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3629 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3631 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3633 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3634 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3635 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3636 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3637 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3640 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3641 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3642 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3643 at a slight CPU cost.
3645 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3646 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3648 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3651 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3653 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3654 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3660 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3661 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3663 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3665 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3667 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3668 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3670 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3671 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3672 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3673 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3674 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3675 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3678 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3679 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3680 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3681 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3684 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3685 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3686 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3687 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3688 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3689 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3690 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3693 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3694 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3696 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3697 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3698 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3699 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3700 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3701 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3703 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3704 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3705 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3706 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3708 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3711 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3712 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3714 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3715 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3716 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3717 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3720 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3722 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3723 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3725 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3726 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3727 to what was transported.)
3729 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3731 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3732 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3733 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3734 spamd_address settings.
3736 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3737 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3738 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3739 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3740 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3742 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3744 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3745 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3746 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3747 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3748 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3750 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3751 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3753 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3754 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3755 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3756 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3757 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3758 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3759 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3762 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3763 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3764 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3765 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3766 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3767 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3768 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3771 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3773 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3774 driver and ACL definitions.
3776 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3777 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3779 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3780 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3781 understands it better than I do:
3783 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3784 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3786 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3787 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3788 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3789 => three warnings about OTP not working
3790 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3792 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3793 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3794 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3795 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3797 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3798 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3800 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3801 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3802 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3804 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3805 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3808 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3809 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3812 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3813 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3814 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3816 warn !verify = sender
3817 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3819 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3820 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3822 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3824 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3825 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3827 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3828 nomenclature these days.)
3830 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3831 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3833 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3834 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3835 . First host does not offer TLS;
3836 . First host accepts first address;
3837 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3838 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3839 . Second host accepts second address.
3840 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3841 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3844 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3845 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3846 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3847 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3848 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3850 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3851 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3853 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3854 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3856 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3857 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3858 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3860 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3861 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3864 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3866 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3867 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3868 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3869 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3870 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3871 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3872 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3874 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3875 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3876 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3877 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3878 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3880 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3881 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3884 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3885 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3886 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3887 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3888 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3889 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3891 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3893 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3894 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3895 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3896 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3897 printable escape sequences.
3899 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3900 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3903 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3904 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3907 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3908 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3909 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3910 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3911 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3913 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3914 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3915 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3917 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3919 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3920 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3923 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3924 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3925 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3926 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3927 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3928 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3929 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3930 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3931 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3934 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3935 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3936 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3937 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3941 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3942 ----------------------------------------
3944 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3945 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3946 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3947 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3948 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3949 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3952 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3953 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3954 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3955 historical information.
3961 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3963 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3964 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3966 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3967 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3970 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3971 filter fails to execute.
3973 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3974 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3975 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3976 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3977 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3979 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3981 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3982 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3983 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3984 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3986 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3987 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3988 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3989 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3990 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3992 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3994 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3996 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3997 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3998 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3999 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4001 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4002 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4003 sender verification.
4005 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4006 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4008 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4010 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4013 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4014 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4016 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4017 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4019 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4020 information about exactly what failed.
4022 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4024 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4025 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4026 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4028 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4029 It is now set to "smtps".
4031 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4032 ignore_target_hosts.
4034 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4035 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4036 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4037 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4040 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4041 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4042 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4044 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4045 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4046 wake it up if nothing else does.
4048 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4049 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4050 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4053 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4054 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4056 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4058 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4059 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4060 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4061 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4062 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4063 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4064 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4065 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4067 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4068 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4069 than one IP address.
4071 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4072 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4073 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4074 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4076 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4077 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4078 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4079 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4080 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4083 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4084 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4085 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4086 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4088 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4089 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4092 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4093 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4094 $sender_host_address.
4096 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4097 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4098 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4099 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4100 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4103 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4105 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4106 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4108 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4109 just the host names, not the priorities.
4111 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4112 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4113 controlled by a keyword.
4115 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4116 multiple records are returned.
4118 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4119 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4122 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4124 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4125 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4127 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4128 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4129 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4131 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4133 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4135 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4137 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4138 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4139 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4140 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4141 because the tests only now provoked it.
4143 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4144 (this can affect the format of dates).
4146 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4147 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4148 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4149 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4151 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4153 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4154 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4155 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4156 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4158 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4159 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4160 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4162 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4165 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4166 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4167 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4168 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4169 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4170 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4173 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4174 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4175 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4178 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4179 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4180 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4182 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4183 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4184 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4185 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4186 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4187 so I produce this patch..."
4189 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4190 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4193 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4194 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4195 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4196 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4199 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4201 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4202 long debug lines gets shown.
4204 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4205 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4207 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4209 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4210 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4211 of $primary_hostname.
4213 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4214 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4215 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4216 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4217 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4218 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4219 by change 4.50/55 above.
4221 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4222 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4223 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4224 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4225 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4226 running as the user.
4229 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4230 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4231 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4234 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4235 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4237 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4238 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4239 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4240 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4241 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4243 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4244 This has been fixed.
4246 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4247 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4248 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4249 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4252 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4254 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4255 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4256 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4257 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4259 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4260 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4262 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4263 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4264 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4266 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4267 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4268 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4271 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4272 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4273 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4275 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4276 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4277 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4278 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4280 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4281 during host lookups.
4283 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4284 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4286 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4288 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4289 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4290 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4291 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4292 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4295 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4296 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4298 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4299 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4300 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4302 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4304 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4305 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4306 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4307 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4308 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4309 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4312 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4313 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4314 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4315 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4316 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4318 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4321 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4323 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4324 "vacation" handling.
4326 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4327 OS variants using glibc.
4329 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4332 ----------------------------------------------------
4333 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4334 ----------------------------------------------------
4340 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4341 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4344 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4345 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4348 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4349 filter fails to execute.
4351 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4352 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4353 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4354 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4355 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4357 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4358 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4359 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4360 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4362 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4363 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4364 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4365 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4366 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4368 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4370 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4371 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4372 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4373 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4375 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4376 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4377 sender verification.
4379 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4380 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4382 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4383 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4385 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4386 ignore_target_hosts.
4388 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4389 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4390 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4391 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4394 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4395 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4396 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4398 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4399 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4400 wake it up if nothing else does.
4402 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4403 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4404 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4407 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4408 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4410 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4412 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4413 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4416 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4417 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4420 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4421 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4422 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4423 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4424 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4427 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4428 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4431 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4432 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4433 $sender_host_address.
4435 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4437 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4438 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4439 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4441 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4444 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4445 (this can affect the format of dates).
4447 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4448 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4449 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4450 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4452 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4453 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4454 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4456 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4457 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4458 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4459 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4461 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4462 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4463 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4465 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4468 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4469 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4470 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4471 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4472 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4473 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4476 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4477 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4478 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4479 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4482 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4483 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4484 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4485 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4486 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4487 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4488 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4490 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4491 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4492 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4493 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4494 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4495 running as the user.
4498 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4499 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4500 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4503 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4504 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4505 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4506 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4507 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4509 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4510 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4511 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4512 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4515 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4516 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4517 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4518 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4519 because the tests only now provoked it.
4525 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4526 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4527 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4528 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4529 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4530 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4531 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4533 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4534 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4537 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4539 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4541 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4542 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4545 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4546 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4547 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4548 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4549 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4551 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4552 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4554 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4556 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4558 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4561 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4562 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4564 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4565 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4566 affecting debugging statements).
4568 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4570 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4571 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4572 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4573 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4574 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4575 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4576 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4577 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4578 after the received time, and all would be well.
4580 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4581 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4582 condition in an expansion string.
4584 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4586 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4587 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4588 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4589 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4590 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4591 job under whatever limits there are.
4593 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4595 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4598 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4599 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4600 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4601 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4604 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4605 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4606 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4607 binary data in such strings.
4609 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4611 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4612 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4613 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4614 failure, which is pointless.
4616 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4618 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4620 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4621 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4622 Sender: header lines.
4624 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4625 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4626 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4628 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4629 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4630 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4631 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4632 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4635 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4636 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4637 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4638 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4639 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4641 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4642 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4643 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4646 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4647 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4649 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4650 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4652 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4654 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4656 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4658 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4661 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4663 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4665 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4666 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4667 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4668 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4670 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4671 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4677 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4678 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4679 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4681 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4682 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4683 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4684 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4685 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4686 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4688 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4689 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4690 verification failure".
4692 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4693 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4694 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4695 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4697 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4698 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4699 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4700 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4701 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4702 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4703 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4704 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4705 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4706 treated as a timeout.
4708 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4709 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4710 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4711 not set for Exim filters).
4713 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4714 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4715 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4717 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4719 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4720 try to make them clearer.
4722 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4723 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4725 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4727 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4729 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4730 only the Cygwin environment.
4732 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4733 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4734 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4735 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4736 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4738 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4739 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4740 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4741 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4742 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4743 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4744 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4746 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4747 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4749 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4751 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4752 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4753 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4755 To: susanne@some.where
4757 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4758 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4759 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4760 of addresses in From: header lines).
4762 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4763 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4764 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4766 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4767 treated as non-personal.
4769 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4770 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4772 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4774 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4776 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4777 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4778 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4780 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4781 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4783 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4784 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4785 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4786 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4787 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4788 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4790 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4791 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4792 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4793 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4794 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4795 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4796 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4797 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4799 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4801 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4802 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4804 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4805 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4806 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4808 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4809 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4811 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4812 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4813 rather than long int.
4815 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4817 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4823 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4824 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4825 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4826 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4827 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4828 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4834 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4835 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4837 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4838 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4839 socklen_t is defined.
4841 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4844 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4847 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4848 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4849 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4850 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4851 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4853 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4854 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4855 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4856 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4858 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4859 of flapping under certain conditions.
4861 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4862 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4863 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4865 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4867 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4869 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4870 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4871 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4872 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4874 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4875 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4876 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4877 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4878 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4879 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4880 preserved with the message after it was received.
4882 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4883 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4884 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4885 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4886 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4887 test suite worked just fine.
4889 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4890 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4891 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4893 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4894 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4897 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4898 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4899 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4900 does not fully solve it.
4902 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4903 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4904 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4905 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4906 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4908 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4909 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4910 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4912 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4913 string, for example:
4915 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4917 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4918 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4919 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4920 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4921 the routers could not see them.
4923 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4924 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4926 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4927 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4930 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4931 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4932 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4933 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4934 that needed quoting.
4936 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4937 was not being matched caselessly.
4939 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4942 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4943 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4944 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4945 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4946 when use_sender is false.
4948 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4950 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4952 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4954 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4955 the configuration file.
4957 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4958 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4960 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4962 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4963 bytes in the message body.
4965 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4966 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4969 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4971 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4973 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4974 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4975 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4976 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4983 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4984 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4986 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4987 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4988 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4989 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4990 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4992 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4993 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4995 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4996 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4997 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4999 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5000 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5001 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5003 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5006 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5007 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5008 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5009 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5010 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5011 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5012 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5018 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5019 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5020 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5021 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5022 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5023 default (and expected) setting.
5025 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5026 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5027 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5028 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5030 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5031 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5033 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5036 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5037 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5038 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5039 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5040 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5041 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5043 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5044 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5045 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5047 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5048 part (NOT match_host).
5050 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5052 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5053 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5054 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5055 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5056 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5057 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5058 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5059 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5060 the same named file.
5062 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5063 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5066 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5067 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5068 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5069 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5072 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5073 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5074 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5076 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5078 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5080 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5082 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5083 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5085 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5086 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5087 before starting the TLS session.
5089 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5091 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5092 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5094 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5095 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5096 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5097 colon in the middle).
5103 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5104 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5105 multiple configurations are in use.
5107 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5108 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5109 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5110 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5111 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5112 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5114 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5115 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5117 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5118 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5119 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5121 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5122 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5125 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5126 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5128 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5130 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5131 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5133 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5141 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5142 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5143 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5144 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5145 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5147 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5150 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5151 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5152 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5153 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5154 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5155 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5157 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5158 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5159 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5160 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5161 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5162 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5163 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5166 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5167 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5168 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5169 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5170 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5172 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5174 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5175 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5176 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5178 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5180 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5181 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5182 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5185 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5186 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5188 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5189 Three changes have been made:
5191 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5192 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5193 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5194 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5195 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5197 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5200 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5201 the modified behaviour.
5207 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5210 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5211 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5213 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5214 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5215 try to track down a specific problem.
5217 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5218 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5219 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5221 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5224 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5225 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5226 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5227 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5228 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5229 some earlier ones do not.
5231 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5233 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5234 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5235 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5236 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5237 address literals are enabled, of course).
5239 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5241 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5242 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5243 by a command such as
5247 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5249 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5251 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5252 remained set. It is now erased.
5254 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5255 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5257 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5258 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5259 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5260 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5261 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5262 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5263 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5264 appropriate error code.
5266 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5267 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5268 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5269 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5270 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5271 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5273 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5274 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5275 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5277 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5278 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5279 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5280 terminate the header.
5282 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5283 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5284 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5286 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5287 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5288 (4.30/29). In particular:
5290 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5293 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5294 to write a maildirsize file.
5296 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5297 the transport, the new value overrides.
5299 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5302 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5303 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5304 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5307 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5308 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5309 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5312 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5313 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5314 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5316 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5317 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5320 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5321 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5322 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5324 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5326 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5328 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5330 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5331 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5334 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5335 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5336 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5337 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5338 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5339 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5340 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5343 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5344 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5345 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5346 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5347 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5350 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5351 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5352 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5353 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5354 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5355 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5356 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5357 cached value only when the same options are set.
5359 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5361 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5362 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5363 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5364 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5365 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5367 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5368 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5369 it is clearly obsolete.
5371 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5374 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5375 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5376 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5379 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5380 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5381 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5382 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5383 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5385 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5386 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5387 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5388 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5390 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5392 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5394 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5395 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5398 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5399 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5400 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5401 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5402 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5403 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5406 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5407 with the -f command-line option.
5409 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5410 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5411 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5412 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5413 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5414 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5416 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5417 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5420 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5421 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5422 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5423 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5424 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5425 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5426 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5427 buffer is too small.
5429 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5430 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5432 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5433 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5434 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5435 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5436 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5437 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5438 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5439 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5440 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5442 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5443 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5444 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5446 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5447 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5450 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5451 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5452 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5453 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5454 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5456 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5457 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5458 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5459 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5462 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5464 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5466 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5467 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5469 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5470 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5471 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5473 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5474 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5475 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5476 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5477 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5479 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5480 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5481 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5482 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5483 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5484 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5485 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5487 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5488 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5489 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5490 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5491 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5492 the test of how many are available.
5494 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5495 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5496 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5497 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5498 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5499 new message is started.
5501 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5502 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5504 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5505 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5507 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5508 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5509 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5512 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5513 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5514 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5515 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5516 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5517 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5518 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5520 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5521 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5522 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5523 interpreted as octal.
5525 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5528 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5529 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5530 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5531 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5532 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5533 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5535 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5536 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5537 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5538 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5540 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5541 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5542 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5543 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5545 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5546 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5549 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5550 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5552 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5554 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5555 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5556 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5557 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5559 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5560 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5561 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5562 supplied", which is not helpful.
5564 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5565 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5566 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5568 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5569 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5570 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5571 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5572 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5573 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5574 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5575 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5577 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5578 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5579 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5580 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5581 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5583 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5584 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5585 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5586 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5587 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5588 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5590 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5591 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5592 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5594 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
5596 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5597 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5598 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5601 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5603 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5604 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5605 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5606 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5607 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5608 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5609 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5610 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5612 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5613 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5614 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5615 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5616 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5618 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5621 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5622 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5623 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5624 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5625 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5626 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5627 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5628 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5629 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5635 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5636 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5637 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5639 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5642 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5643 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5644 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5646 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5647 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5648 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5649 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5650 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5651 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5653 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5654 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5655 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5656 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5657 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5658 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5659 the Exim test suite.
5661 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5662 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5663 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5664 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5666 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5667 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5668 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5669 specify it in this variable.
5671 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5672 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5673 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5674 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5676 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5677 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5678 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5679 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5681 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5682 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5683 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5684 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5685 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5687 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5689 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5692 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5693 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5694 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5695 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5696 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5698 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5699 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5701 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5702 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5703 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5704 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5705 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5707 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5708 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5710 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5711 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5712 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5714 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5715 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5717 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5718 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5720 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5721 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5722 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5724 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5725 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5727 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5728 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5729 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5730 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5732 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5734 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5735 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5736 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5737 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5739 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5741 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5742 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5744 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5746 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5747 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5748 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5749 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5750 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5751 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5753 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5755 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5756 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5759 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5761 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5762 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5764 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5765 550 Sender verify failed
5767 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5768 the final line of the response.
5770 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5771 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5772 all other user lookups.
5774 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5777 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5778 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5779 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5780 result into an int without checking.
5782 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5783 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5784 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5786 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5787 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5788 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5789 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5791 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5794 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5795 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5797 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5798 to the empty sender.
5800 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5801 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5802 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5803 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5804 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5805 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5806 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5809 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5810 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5811 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5812 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5815 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5816 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5818 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5821 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5822 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5824 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5826 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5827 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5830 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5831 as soon as it is encountered.
5833 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5835 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5838 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5839 recognizes a tab character.
5841 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5842 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5843 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5844 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5846 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5848 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5851 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5853 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5855 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5856 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5859 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5860 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5861 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5862 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5863 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5865 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5866 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5868 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5869 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5870 list (.included file names were always shown).
5872 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5873 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5874 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5877 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5878 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5880 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5882 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5884 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5886 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5887 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5888 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5889 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5890 failures to open the logs.
5892 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5893 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5894 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5895 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5896 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5897 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5898 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5904 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5905 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5906 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5909 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5910 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5911 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5913 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5914 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5915 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5917 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5918 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5919 causing some misleading effects.
5921 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5922 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5923 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5925 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5926 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5927 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5928 queue-runner function directly.
5934 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5937 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5938 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5939 was always written to the default place.
5941 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5942 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5943 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5945 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5947 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5949 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5950 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5951 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5953 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5954 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5957 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5958 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5959 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5961 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5962 command line option is disabled.
5964 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5965 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5967 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5969 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5971 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5972 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5974 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5976 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5977 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5978 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5979 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5980 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5981 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5983 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5984 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5987 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5988 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5990 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5991 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5993 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5994 received was valid base64.
5996 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5997 name of the variable that was being set.
5999 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6001 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6002 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6003 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6004 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6005 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6006 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6008 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6010 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6011 nor realm was specified.
6013 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6014 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6015 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6016 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6018 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6019 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6020 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6022 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6023 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6024 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6026 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6027 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6028 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6029 some systems use these upper case variants.
6031 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6032 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6033 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6034 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6036 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6038 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6039 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6041 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6042 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6045 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6047 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6048 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6049 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6050 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6052 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6055 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6056 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6057 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6059 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6060 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6062 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6063 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6064 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6065 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6067 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6068 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6069 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6071 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6073 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6074 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6075 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6076 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6079 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6080 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6081 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6083 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6085 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6086 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6088 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6089 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6091 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6092 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6093 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6094 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6095 when emails are that large.
6102 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6103 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6105 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6106 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6107 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6109 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6110 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6111 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6113 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6114 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6115 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6116 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6117 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6119 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6120 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6121 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6122 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6123 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6126 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6127 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6128 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6129 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6130 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6131 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6132 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6133 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6134 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6135 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6136 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6137 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6138 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6139 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6141 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6142 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6145 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6146 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6147 error should be diagnosed.
6149 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6150 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6151 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6152 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6153 appeared instead of "NULL".
6155 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6156 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6157 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6158 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6159 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6160 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6163 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6164 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6165 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6171 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6172 or receiver verification errors.
6174 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6177 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6178 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6179 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6180 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6182 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6183 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6184 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6185 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6186 shouldn't happen again.
6188 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6189 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6190 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6192 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6193 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6195 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6197 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6198 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6200 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6201 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6204 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6205 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6206 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6208 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6209 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6210 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6211 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6213 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6214 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6215 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6216 to define what should happen).
6218 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6219 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6220 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6222 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6224 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6226 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6227 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6229 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6230 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6231 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6232 structure in all cases.
6234 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6235 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6236 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6237 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6239 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6240 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6243 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6244 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6246 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6247 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6249 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6250 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6251 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6253 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6254 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6255 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6257 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6258 the book and for uniformity.
6260 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6262 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6263 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6264 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6265 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6266 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6267 non-existent command as the problem.
6269 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6270 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6271 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6273 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6275 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6276 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6277 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6279 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6280 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6281 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6282 timestamps using strftime().
6284 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6285 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6287 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6288 transport-time rewrites.
6290 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6291 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6292 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6293 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6295 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6296 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6298 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6299 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6300 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6301 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6304 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6305 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6306 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6307 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6308 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6309 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6310 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6312 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6313 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6314 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6315 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6316 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6318 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6319 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6320 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6321 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6322 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6323 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6324 remaining text gets split now.
6326 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6327 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6328 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6329 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6331 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6332 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6333 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6334 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6337 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6338 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6339 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6340 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6341 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6342 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6343 passed through if needed.
6345 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6346 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6347 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6348 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6349 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6350 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6352 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6353 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6354 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6355 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6356 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6358 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6359 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6360 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6361 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6362 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6364 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6365 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6368 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6369 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6370 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6371 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6372 mayhem of various kinds.
6374 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6375 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6376 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6377 the right test for positive values.
6379 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6380 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6381 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6382 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6383 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6384 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6385 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6386 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6387 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6388 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6391 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6394 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6395 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6398 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6399 the existing equality matching.
6401 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6402 dealing with inode numbers.
6404 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6405 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6406 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6408 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6409 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6410 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6411 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6414 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6415 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6416 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6417 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6418 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6419 relay addresses has also been removed.
6421 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6423 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6424 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6425 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6427 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6428 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6429 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6430 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6431 processing applies to CR:
6433 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6434 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6436 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6437 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6438 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6439 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6441 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6442 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6443 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6445 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6446 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6447 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6448 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6449 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6450 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6453 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6456 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6457 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6458 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6459 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6462 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6464 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6466 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6468 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6469 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6470 not considered personal.
6472 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6474 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6476 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6478 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6479 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6480 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6481 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6482 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6483 header lines, and spool format errors.
6485 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6486 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6487 for more flexibility.
6489 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6490 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6491 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6493 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6496 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6497 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6498 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6499 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6500 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6501 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6502 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6503 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6504 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6506 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6507 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6508 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6509 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6510 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6511 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6512 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6514 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6515 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6516 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6518 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6519 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6520 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6521 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6522 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6523 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6524 instead of killing the process with assert().
6526 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6527 than Unicode encoding.
6529 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6530 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6531 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6532 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6534 77. Added process_log_path.
6536 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6537 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6539 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6540 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6542 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6543 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6544 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6546 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6547 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6548 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6549 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6550 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6553 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6554 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6557 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6558 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6559 they will be used during message reception.
6565 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.