1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
2 -------------------------------------------
7 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
11 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
13 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
16 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
18 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
20 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
22 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
25 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
28 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
31 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
35 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
37 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
40 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
42 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
44 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
48 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
52 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
56 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
61 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
65 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
68 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
70 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
72 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
74 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
75 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
76 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
78 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
79 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
80 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
81 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
83 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
84 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
86 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
87 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
88 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
89 resolver implementation change.
91 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
92 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
94 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
96 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
98 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
99 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
101 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
102 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
104 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
105 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
107 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
108 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
109 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
110 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
111 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
113 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
115 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
116 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
117 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
119 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
121 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
122 read-only, out of scope).
123 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
125 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
126 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
127 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
128 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
130 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
132 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
133 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
134 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
135 real issues in debug logging.
137 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
138 assignment on my part. Fixed.
144 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
145 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
147 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
149 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
152 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
153 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
155 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
156 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
157 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
159 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
160 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
161 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
162 not safe for signals.
164 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
165 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
166 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
167 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
170 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
172 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
173 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
174 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
175 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
176 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
178 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
179 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
180 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
181 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
182 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
183 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
185 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
186 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
187 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
188 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
190 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
191 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
192 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
193 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
195 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
196 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
197 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
198 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
199 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
200 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
201 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
202 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
203 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
205 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
206 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
207 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
208 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
210 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
211 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
212 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
213 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
214 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
215 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
216 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
217 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
218 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
219 details in the main documentation.
221 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
223 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
225 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
226 repository when doing development or release builds.
228 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
229 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
231 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
232 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
235 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
237 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
238 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
240 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
241 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
243 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
244 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
246 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
247 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
249 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
250 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
252 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
254 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
257 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
258 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
259 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
261 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
263 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
265 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
266 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
272 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
274 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
275 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
277 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
279 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
281 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
284 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
285 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
287 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
288 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
290 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
293 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
296 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
297 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
299 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
300 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
301 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
302 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
304 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
305 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
311 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
314 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
315 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
316 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
318 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
319 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
321 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
322 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
323 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
325 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
326 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
328 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
329 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
331 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
332 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
334 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
335 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
337 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
338 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
340 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
343 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
344 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
346 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
347 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
349 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
350 SQL string expansion failure details.
351 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
353 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
354 Patch from Simon Arlott.
356 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
357 extern declarations in function scope.
358 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
360 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
361 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
362 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
365 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
366 Patch from Mark Zealey.
368 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
369 Patch from Mark Zealey.
371 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
372 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
374 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
375 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
377 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
378 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
381 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
383 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
385 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
386 Patch by Simon Arlott
388 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
389 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
395 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
396 consequences so log it to the panic log.
398 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
399 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
401 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
403 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
404 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
405 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
407 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
408 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
409 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
411 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
412 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
413 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
414 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
416 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
417 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
418 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
419 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
421 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
422 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
423 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
426 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
429 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
430 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
431 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
432 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
433 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
439 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
440 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
441 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
443 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
444 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
446 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
448 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
450 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
452 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
454 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
456 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
457 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
458 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
459 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
461 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
462 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
463 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
464 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
465 more caution in buffer sizes.
467 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
469 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
471 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
473 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
475 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
477 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
479 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
481 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
482 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
483 ignore trailing whitespace.
485 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
487 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
490 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
491 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
493 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
494 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
495 Notification from John Horne.
497 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
500 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
501 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
504 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
507 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
508 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
509 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
511 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
512 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
513 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
516 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
517 option (effectively making it always true).
519 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
520 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
522 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
523 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
525 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
526 run-time user, instead of root.
528 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
529 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
531 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
532 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
535 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
536 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
537 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
539 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
541 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
547 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
548 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
551 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
552 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
555 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
556 Patch from Alain Williams
558 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
560 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
561 Patch from Andreas Metzler
563 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
564 Patch from Kirill Miazine
566 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
568 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
570 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
571 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
573 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
575 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
577 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
578 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
579 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
581 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
582 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
584 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
585 Patch by Simon Arlott
587 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
588 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
594 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
596 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
598 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
600 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
602 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
608 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
609 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
611 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
612 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
615 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
616 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
617 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
619 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
620 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
622 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
623 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
624 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
625 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
627 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
628 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
629 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
631 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
633 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
635 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
636 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
638 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
640 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
641 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
642 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
643 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
645 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
646 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
648 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
650 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
652 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
653 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
655 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
656 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
658 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
659 that they are available at delivery time.
661 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
663 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
664 incoming_port log selectors.
666 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
667 setting expands to an empty string.
669 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
670 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
672 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
673 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
675 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
676 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
678 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
679 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
681 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
682 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
684 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
685 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
687 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
689 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
690 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
692 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
693 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
695 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
697 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
698 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
700 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
702 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
704 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
707 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
708 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
710 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
711 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
713 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
714 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
716 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
717 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
719 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
720 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
722 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
723 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
725 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
726 plus update to original patch.
728 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
730 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
731 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
733 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
735 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
737 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
739 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
741 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
742 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
744 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
745 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
747 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
748 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
750 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
751 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
753 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
755 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
757 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
759 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
765 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
766 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
767 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
769 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
770 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
771 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
772 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
773 build errors in sieve.c.
775 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
776 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
777 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
779 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
781 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
783 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
785 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
791 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
793 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
794 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
795 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
796 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
797 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
798 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
799 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
800 for iplsearch lookups.
802 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
803 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
804 previously such lookups could never work.
806 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
807 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
808 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
810 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
813 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
814 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
815 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
816 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
817 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
818 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
820 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
821 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
823 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
824 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
825 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
826 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
827 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
828 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
830 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
833 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
835 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
836 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
839 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
840 by clients under certain conditions.
842 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
843 "_responses" off the end of the name.
845 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
847 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
848 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
850 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
852 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
854 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
856 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
857 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
859 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
861 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
862 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
864 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
866 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
868 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
869 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
870 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
871 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
873 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
874 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
875 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
877 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
878 and InterBase are left for another time.)
880 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
882 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
884 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
886 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
887 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
888 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
894 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
895 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
898 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
899 issue a MAIL command.
901 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
903 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
905 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
906 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
907 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
908 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
909 item. This has been fixed.
911 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
912 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
914 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
915 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
917 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
918 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
919 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
921 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
923 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
924 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
925 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
926 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
927 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
929 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
930 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
931 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
933 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
934 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
935 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
936 the server_setid option was incorrect.
938 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
940 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
942 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
943 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
944 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
945 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
946 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
948 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
950 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
951 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
952 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
955 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
957 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
959 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
961 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
963 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
965 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
966 no_callout_flush is set.
968 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
969 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
970 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
973 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
975 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
976 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
977 other ACL rejections are.
979 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
980 with slight modification.
982 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
983 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
985 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
986 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
989 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
990 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
992 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
994 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
995 expansion side effects.
997 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
998 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
999 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1002 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1003 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1004 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1006 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1007 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1008 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1009 were accidentally chopped off.
1011 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1012 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1013 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1014 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1015 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1016 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1017 pipelining has not been advertised.
1019 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1021 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1022 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1023 This has been fixed.
1025 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1026 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1027 reported on Solaris.
1029 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1030 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1031 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1032 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1033 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1034 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1035 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1037 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1040 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1042 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1044 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1045 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1046 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1047 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1048 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1049 criteria to be more general.
1051 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1052 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1053 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1054 host_all_ignored option.
1056 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1057 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1058 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1059 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1060 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1061 is what is supposed to happen).
1063 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1064 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1065 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1066 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1067 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1070 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1071 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1072 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1073 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1074 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1075 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1078 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1080 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1081 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1083 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1084 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1086 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1088 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1090 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1091 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1092 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1093 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1094 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1095 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1096 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1097 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1098 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1099 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1100 least in a lot of common cases.
1102 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1103 advertised in response to EHLO.
1109 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1110 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1112 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1113 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1115 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1116 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1117 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1119 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1120 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1121 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1122 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1123 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1129 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1130 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1133 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1134 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1135 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1137 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1138 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1139 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1140 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1141 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1142 rather than extend the field.
1148 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1149 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1150 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1151 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1154 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1155 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1156 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1158 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1159 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1160 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1162 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1163 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1164 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1167 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1168 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1169 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1170 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1171 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1172 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1173 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1174 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1175 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1176 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1177 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1179 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1182 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1183 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1184 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1185 ignores EPIPE as well.
1187 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1188 (quoted-printable decoding).
1190 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1191 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1193 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1195 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1197 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1199 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1200 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1202 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1205 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1206 miscellaneous code fixes
1208 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1211 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1212 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1213 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1214 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1215 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1216 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1217 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1218 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1220 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1221 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1222 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1223 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1225 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1226 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1227 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1228 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1229 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1230 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1231 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1232 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1233 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1235 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1238 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1239 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1240 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1241 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1242 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1243 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1244 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1245 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1247 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1248 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1251 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1252 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1253 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1254 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1255 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1256 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1257 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1258 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1259 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1260 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1261 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1262 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1263 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1265 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1266 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1267 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1268 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1269 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1270 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1271 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1273 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1274 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1275 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1276 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1277 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1278 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1279 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1280 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1281 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1282 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1284 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1285 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1286 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1287 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1288 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1290 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1291 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1292 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1293 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1294 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1295 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1296 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1298 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1299 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1300 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1301 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1302 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1303 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1306 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1307 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1308 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1311 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1312 if any retry times were supplied.
1314 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1315 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1316 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1318 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1320 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1322 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1323 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1324 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1325 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1326 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1327 before) are ignored.
1329 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1330 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1332 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1333 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1334 committing the later change.]
1336 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1337 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1338 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1339 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1340 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1341 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1342 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1343 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1344 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1346 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1347 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1348 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1349 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1350 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1351 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1352 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1353 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1354 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1356 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1357 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1358 hammering the server.
1360 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1361 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1363 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1365 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1366 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1367 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1369 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1370 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1371 one case where this was not true.
1373 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1374 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1375 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1376 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1379 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1380 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1381 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1382 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1383 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1384 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1385 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1386 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1387 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1390 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1391 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1392 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1393 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1395 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1396 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1398 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1399 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1400 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1402 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1404 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1406 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1408 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1409 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1410 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1411 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1413 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1414 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1416 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1417 be meaningful with "accept".
1419 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1420 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1422 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1423 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1424 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1426 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1427 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1428 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1429 there is data to show.
1430 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1432 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1433 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1434 as well as the number of messages.
1436 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1437 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1438 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1440 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1441 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1442 have a flag are now skipped.
1444 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1445 Added the -emptyok flag.
1447 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1448 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1450 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1451 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1452 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1454 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1457 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1458 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1460 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1462 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1463 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1465 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1467 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1468 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1469 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1470 contravention of the specifications.
1472 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1473 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1474 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1476 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1477 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1478 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1480 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1482 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1483 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1484 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1485 some point in the past.
1487 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1488 transport during callout processing was broken.
1490 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1491 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1493 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1494 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1496 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1497 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1499 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1505 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1506 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1508 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1509 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1510 there is data to show.
1511 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1513 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1514 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1516 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1517 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1519 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1520 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1522 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1523 submissions from trusted users.
1525 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1526 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1528 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1529 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1530 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1531 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1532 there is now a framework to start from.
1534 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1535 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1536 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1538 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1540 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1542 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1544 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1545 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1546 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1548 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1551 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1552 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1553 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1555 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1556 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1557 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1560 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1561 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1562 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1563 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1564 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1566 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1567 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1569 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1571 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1572 operations in malware.c.
1574 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1577 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1578 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1579 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1582 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1583 statements to "add_header".
1585 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1586 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1588 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1589 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1592 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1596 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1597 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1598 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1601 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1602 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1604 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1605 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1607 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1608 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1609 any possible encoding problems.
1611 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1612 but not after initializing Perl.
1614 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1615 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1616 apparently, which is not desirable.
1618 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1621 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1624 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1626 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1627 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1628 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1629 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1631 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1632 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1633 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1635 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1636 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1637 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1640 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1641 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1642 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1643 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1644 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1650 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1651 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1653 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1656 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1657 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1658 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1659 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1660 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1661 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1662 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1663 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1666 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1668 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1669 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1670 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1672 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1673 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1674 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1677 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1678 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1680 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1681 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1682 option (which defaults to 0600).
1684 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1686 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1687 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1688 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1689 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1690 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1691 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1692 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1694 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1700 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1701 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1702 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1703 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1704 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1705 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1708 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1709 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1711 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1713 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1714 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1715 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1716 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1717 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1720 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1721 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1723 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1724 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1725 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1726 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1727 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1729 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1730 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1731 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1732 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1734 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1735 be the same on different OS.
1737 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1740 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1741 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1743 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1746 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1747 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1748 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1749 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1750 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1751 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1754 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1755 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1756 when Exim was called.
1758 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1759 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1761 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1762 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1763 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1764 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1766 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1767 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1768 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1769 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1772 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1773 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1774 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1776 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1777 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1778 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1780 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1783 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1784 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1785 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1786 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1787 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1788 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1789 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1790 values from the SRV records were lost.
1792 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1793 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1794 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1796 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1797 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1798 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1800 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1801 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1802 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1803 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1804 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1805 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1806 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1807 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1808 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1809 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1811 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1812 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1813 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1815 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1816 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1818 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1819 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1820 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1821 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1824 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1825 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1826 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1828 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1829 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1830 PH/23 above applies.
1832 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1833 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1834 (for which there is an explicit test).
1836 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1838 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1839 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1840 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1841 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1842 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1844 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1845 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1846 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1847 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1849 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1850 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1851 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1853 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1855 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1857 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1858 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1859 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1861 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1862 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1863 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1864 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1865 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1867 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1868 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1869 the message gets confusing).
1871 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1872 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1873 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1874 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1876 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1877 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1878 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1879 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1882 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1883 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1884 the different processes.
1886 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1888 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1890 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1891 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1893 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1894 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1896 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1897 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1898 messages matching specified criteria.
1900 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1902 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1903 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1905 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1906 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1907 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1908 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1909 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1910 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1911 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1912 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1913 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1914 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1916 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1917 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1918 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1920 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1922 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1923 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1924 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1925 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1926 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1927 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1928 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1931 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1932 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1934 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1936 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1938 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1940 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1941 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1942 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1943 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1944 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1945 size of the count of files.
1947 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1949 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1952 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1953 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1954 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1955 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1957 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1958 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1959 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1961 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1962 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1963 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1964 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1965 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1967 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1968 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1970 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1971 will now be deprecated.
1973 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1975 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1976 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1977 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1979 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1980 with very large, slow to parse queues
1982 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1984 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1986 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1987 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1988 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1991 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1992 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1993 Sieve code now uses this.
1995 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1996 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1998 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1999 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2001 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2003 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2004 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2005 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2006 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2007 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2009 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2010 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2011 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2012 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2014 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2016 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2018 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2019 is preferred over IPv4.
2021 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2022 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2023 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2024 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2025 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2026 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2027 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2029 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2030 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2031 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2033 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2035 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2036 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2037 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2038 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2039 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2040 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2041 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2042 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2043 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2044 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2045 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2047 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2048 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2049 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2055 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2057 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2058 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2060 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2061 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2062 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2064 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2066 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2069 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2072 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2073 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2074 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2077 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2078 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2080 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2081 inside the third argument.
2083 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2084 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2087 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2088 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2090 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2091 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2093 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2095 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2096 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2099 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2101 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2102 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2103 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2104 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2105 identical. For example:
2107 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2109 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2110 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2111 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2113 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2114 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2115 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2116 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2118 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2119 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2120 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2123 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2125 o fixes some comments
2126 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2127 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2128 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2129 and documents the missing references header update
2133 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2134 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2137 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2138 Electronic Mail") by including:
2140 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2142 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2143 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2144 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2145 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2146 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2148 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2150 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2152 The auto-replied keyword:
2154 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2155 message by an automatic process,
2157 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2159 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2160 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2162 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2163 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2166 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2167 to the default Received: header definition.
2169 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2171 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2172 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2173 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2175 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2176 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2177 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2179 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2180 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2181 and treats the condition as false.
2183 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2185 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2186 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2187 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2188 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2189 not changing the active code.
2191 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2192 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2194 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2195 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2197 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2200 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2201 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2202 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2203 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2204 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2205 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2206 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2207 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2208 the text comparison.
2210 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2211 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2212 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2213 The same fix has been applied.
2219 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2220 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2223 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2224 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2226 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2228 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2229 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2230 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2231 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2232 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2234 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2235 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2236 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2237 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2240 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2248 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2249 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2251 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2253 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2255 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2256 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2257 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2259 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2260 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2261 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2263 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2264 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2267 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2268 ${stat: expansion item.
2270 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2271 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2273 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2274 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2277 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2279 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2282 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2283 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2285 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2287 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2288 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2289 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2290 the end of the subprocess.
2292 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2293 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2294 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2295 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2296 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2298 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2300 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2302 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2303 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2305 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2307 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2309 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2310 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2313 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2315 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2316 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2317 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2319 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2320 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2322 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2323 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2325 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2326 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2328 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2329 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2331 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2332 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2333 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2334 contributed by a Radius user.
2336 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2337 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2339 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2340 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2342 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2345 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2346 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2349 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2350 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2351 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2352 header lines when this was not necessary.
2354 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2356 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2357 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2358 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2361 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2364 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2365 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2366 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2367 return code was incorrect.
2369 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2371 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2373 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2375 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2377 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2378 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2379 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2380 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2381 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2384 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2386 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2387 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2388 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2389 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2390 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2391 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2392 which is clearly wrong.
2394 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2396 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2397 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2398 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2401 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2402 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2404 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2406 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2407 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2409 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2410 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2412 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2413 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2415 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2416 recipients, not senders.
2418 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2419 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2421 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2423 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2425 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2426 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2427 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2428 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2430 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2432 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2433 clock is set back in time.
2435 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2436 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2438 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2439 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2441 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2442 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2445 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2446 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2449 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2452 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2454 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2455 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2456 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2458 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2459 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2460 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2461 helo verification defer as a failure.
2463 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2464 actual error message.
2470 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2472 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2473 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2474 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2475 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2477 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2479 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2480 can still be requested.
2482 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2483 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2484 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2485 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2487 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2488 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2489 circumstances, but probably never did.
2491 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2492 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2493 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2496 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2498 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2499 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2501 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2503 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2505 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2506 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2507 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2508 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2509 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2510 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2512 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2513 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2514 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2515 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2516 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2517 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2519 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2520 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2522 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2523 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2525 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2526 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2528 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2530 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2532 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2534 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2536 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2538 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2540 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2542 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2543 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2544 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2546 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2547 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2548 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2549 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2551 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2552 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2553 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2555 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2556 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2557 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2558 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2560 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2561 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2564 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2565 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2566 should work with maildirs and everything.
2568 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2569 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2571 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2574 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2575 function for BDB 4.3.
2577 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2579 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2580 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2583 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2584 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2585 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2586 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2587 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2588 formatting function string_vformat().
2590 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2591 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2592 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2593 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2594 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2595 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2596 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2597 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2599 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2600 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2603 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2604 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2606 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2607 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2608 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2609 test. It is now used for both.
2611 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2612 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2613 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2614 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2615 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2616 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2618 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2619 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2620 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2623 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2624 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2625 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2627 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2628 experimental DomainKeys support:
2630 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2631 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2632 the control was given.
2634 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2636 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2638 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2640 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2641 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2642 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2645 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2646 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2647 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2648 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2649 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2650 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2653 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2654 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2655 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2656 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2657 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2658 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2660 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2661 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2662 do -d+all out of habit.
2664 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2665 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2668 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2669 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2670 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2671 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2672 record types that Exim uses.
2674 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2675 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2676 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2677 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2678 non-existent file that was broken.
2680 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2681 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2683 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2684 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2685 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2687 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2689 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2690 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2691 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2692 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2693 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2696 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2697 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2698 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2699 at a slight CPU cost.
2701 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2702 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2704 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2707 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2709 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2710 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2716 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2717 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2719 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2721 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2723 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2724 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2726 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2727 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2728 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2729 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2730 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2731 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2734 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2735 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2736 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2737 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2740 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2741 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2742 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2743 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2744 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2745 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2746 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2749 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2750 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2752 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2753 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2754 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2755 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2756 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2757 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2759 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2760 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2761 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2762 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2764 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2767 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2768 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2770 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2771 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2772 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2773 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2776 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2778 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2779 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2781 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2782 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2783 to what was transported.)
2785 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2787 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2788 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2789 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2790 spamd_address settings.
2792 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2793 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2794 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2795 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2796 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2798 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2800 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2801 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2802 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2803 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2804 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2806 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2807 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2809 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2810 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2811 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2812 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2813 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2814 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2815 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2818 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2819 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2820 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2821 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2822 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2823 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2824 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2827 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2829 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2830 driver and ACL definitions.
2832 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2833 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2835 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2836 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2837 understands it better than I do:
2839 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2840 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2842 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2843 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2844 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2845 => three warnings about OTP not working
2846 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2848 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2849 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2850 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2851 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2853 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2854 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2856 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2857 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2858 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2860 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2861 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2864 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2865 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2868 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2869 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2870 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2872 warn !verify = sender
2873 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2875 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2876 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2878 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2880 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2881 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2883 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2884 nomenclature these days.)
2886 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2887 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2889 PH/30 In these circumstances:
2890 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2891 . First host does not offer TLS;
2892 . First host accepts first address;
2893 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2894 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2895 . Second host accepts second address.
2896 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2897 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2900 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2901 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2902 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2903 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2904 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2906 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2907 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2909 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2910 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2912 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2913 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2914 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2916 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2917 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2920 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2922 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2923 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2924 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2925 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2926 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2927 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2928 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2930 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2931 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2932 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2933 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2934 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2936 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2937 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2940 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2941 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2942 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2943 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2944 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2945 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2947 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2949 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2950 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2951 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2952 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2953 printable escape sequences.
2955 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2956 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2959 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2960 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2963 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2964 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2965 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2966 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2967 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2969 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2970 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2971 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2973 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2975 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2976 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2979 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2980 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2981 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2982 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2983 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2984 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2985 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2986 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2987 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2990 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2991 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2992 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2993 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2997 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2998 ----------------------------------------
3000 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3001 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3002 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3003 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3004 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3005 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3008 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3009 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3010 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3011 historical information.
3017 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3019 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3020 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3022 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3023 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3026 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3027 filter fails to execute.
3029 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3030 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3031 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3032 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3033 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3035 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3037 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3038 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3039 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3040 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3042 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3043 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3044 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3045 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3046 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3048 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3050 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3052 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3053 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3054 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3055 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3057 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3058 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3059 sender verification.
3061 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3062 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3064 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3066 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3069 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3070 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3072 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3073 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3075 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3076 information about exactly what failed.
3078 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3080 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3081 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3082 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3084 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3085 It is now set to "smtps".
3087 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3088 ignore_target_hosts.
3090 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3091 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3092 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3093 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3096 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3097 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3098 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3100 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3101 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3102 wake it up if nothing else does.
3104 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3105 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3106 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3109 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3110 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3112 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3114 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3115 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3116 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3117 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3118 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3119 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3120 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3121 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3123 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3124 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3125 than one IP address.
3127 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3128 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3129 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3130 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3132 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3133 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3134 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3135 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3136 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3139 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3140 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3141 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3142 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3144 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3145 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3148 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3149 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3150 $sender_host_address.
3152 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3153 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3154 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3155 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3156 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3159 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3161 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3162 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3164 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3165 just the host names, not the priorities.
3167 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3168 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3169 controlled by a keyword.
3171 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3172 multiple records are returned.
3174 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3175 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3178 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3180 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3181 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3183 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3184 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3185 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3187 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3189 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3191 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3193 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3194 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3195 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3196 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3197 because the tests only now provoked it.
3199 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3200 (this can affect the format of dates).
3202 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3203 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3204 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3205 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3207 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3209 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3210 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3211 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3212 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3214 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3215 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3216 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3218 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3221 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3222 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3223 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3224 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3225 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3226 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3229 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3230 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3231 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3234 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3235 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3236 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3238 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3239 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3240 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3241 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3242 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3243 so I produce this patch..."
3245 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3246 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3249 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3250 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3251 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3252 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3255 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3257 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3258 long debug lines gets shown.
3260 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3261 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3263 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3265 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3266 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3267 of $primary_hostname.
3269 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3270 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3271 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3272 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3273 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3274 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3275 by change 4.50/55 above.
3277 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3278 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3279 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3280 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3281 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3282 running as the user.
3285 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3286 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3287 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3290 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3291 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3293 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3294 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3295 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3296 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3297 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3299 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3300 This has been fixed.
3302 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3303 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3304 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3305 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3308 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3310 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3311 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3312 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3313 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3315 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3316 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3318 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3319 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3320 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3322 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3323 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3324 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3327 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3328 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3329 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3331 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3332 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3333 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3334 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3336 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3337 during host lookups.
3339 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3340 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3342 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3344 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3345 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3346 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3347 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3348 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3351 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3352 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3354 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3355 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3356 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3358 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3360 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3361 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3362 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3363 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3364 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3365 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3368 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3369 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3370 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3371 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3372 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3374 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3377 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3379 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3380 "vacation" handling.
3382 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3383 OS variants using glibc.
3385 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3388 ----------------------------------------------------
3389 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3390 ----------------------------------------------------
3396 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3397 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3400 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3401 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3404 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3405 filter fails to execute.
3407 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3408 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3409 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3410 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3411 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3413 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3414 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3415 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3416 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3418 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3419 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3420 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3421 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3422 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3424 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3426 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3427 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3428 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3429 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3431 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3432 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3433 sender verification.
3435 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3436 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3438 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3439 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3441 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3442 ignore_target_hosts.
3444 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3445 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3446 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3447 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3450 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3451 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3452 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3454 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3455 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3456 wake it up if nothing else does.
3458 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3459 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3460 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3463 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3464 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3466 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3468 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3469 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3472 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3473 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3476 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3477 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3478 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3479 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3480 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3483 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3484 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3487 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3488 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3489 $sender_host_address.
3491 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3493 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3494 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3495 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3497 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3500 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3501 (this can affect the format of dates).
3503 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3504 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3505 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3506 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3508 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3509 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3510 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3512 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3513 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3514 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3515 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3517 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3518 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3519 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3521 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3524 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3525 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3526 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3527 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3528 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3529 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3532 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3533 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3534 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3535 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3538 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3539 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3540 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3541 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3542 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3543 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3544 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3546 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3547 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3548 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3549 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3550 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3551 running as the user.
3554 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3555 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3556 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3559 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3560 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3561 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3562 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3563 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3565 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3566 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3567 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3568 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3571 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3572 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3573 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3574 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3575 because the tests only now provoked it.
3581 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3582 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3583 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3584 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3585 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3586 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3587 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3589 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3590 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3593 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3595 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3597 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3598 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3601 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3602 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3603 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3604 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3605 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3607 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3608 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3610 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3612 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3614 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3617 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3618 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3620 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3621 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3622 affecting debugging statements).
3624 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3626 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3627 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3628 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3629 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3630 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3631 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3632 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3633 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3634 after the received time, and all would be well.
3636 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3637 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3638 condition in an expansion string.
3640 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3642 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3643 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3644 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3645 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3646 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3647 job under whatever limits there are.
3649 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3651 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3654 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3655 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3656 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3657 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3660 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3661 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3662 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3663 binary data in such strings.
3665 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3667 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3668 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3669 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3670 failure, which is pointless.
3672 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3674 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3676 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3677 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3678 Sender: header lines.
3680 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3681 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3682 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3684 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3685 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3686 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3687 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3688 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3691 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3692 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3693 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3694 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3695 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3697 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3698 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3699 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3702 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3703 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3705 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3706 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3708 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3710 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3712 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3714 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3717 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3719 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3721 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3722 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3723 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3724 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3726 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3727 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3733 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3734 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3735 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3737 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3738 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3739 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3740 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3741 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3742 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3744 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3745 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3746 verification failure".
3748 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3749 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3750 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3751 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3753 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3754 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3755 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3756 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3757 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3758 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3759 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3760 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3761 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3762 treated as a timeout.
3764 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3765 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3766 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3767 not set for Exim filters).
3769 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3770 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3771 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3773 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3775 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3776 try to make them clearer.
3778 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3779 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3781 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3783 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3785 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3786 only the Cygwin environment.
3788 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3789 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3790 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3791 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3792 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3794 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3795 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3796 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3797 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3798 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3799 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3800 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3802 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3803 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3805 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3807 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3808 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3809 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3811 To: susanne@some.where
3813 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3814 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3815 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3816 of addresses in From: header lines).
3818 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3819 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3820 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3822 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3823 treated as non-personal.
3825 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3826 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3828 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3830 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3832 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3833 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3834 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3836 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3837 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3839 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3840 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3841 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3842 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3843 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3844 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3846 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3847 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3848 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3849 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3850 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3851 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3852 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3853 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3855 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3857 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3858 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3860 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3861 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3862 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3864 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3865 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3867 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3868 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3869 rather than long int.
3871 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3873 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3879 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3880 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3881 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3882 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3883 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3884 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3890 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3891 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3893 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3894 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3895 socklen_t is defined.
3897 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3900 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3903 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3904 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3905 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3906 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3907 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3909 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3910 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3911 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3912 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3914 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3915 of flapping under certain conditions.
3917 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3918 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3919 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3921 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3923 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3925 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3926 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3927 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3928 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3930 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3931 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3932 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3933 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3934 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3935 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3936 preserved with the message after it was received.
3938 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3939 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3940 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3941 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3942 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3943 test suite worked just fine.
3945 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3946 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3947 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3949 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3950 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3953 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3954 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3955 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3956 does not fully solve it.
3958 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3959 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3960 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3961 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3962 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3964 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3965 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3966 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3968 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3969 string, for example:
3971 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3973 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3974 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3975 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3976 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3977 the routers could not see them.
3979 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3980 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3982 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3983 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3986 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3987 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3988 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3989 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3990 that needed quoting.
3992 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3993 was not being matched caselessly.
3995 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3998 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3999 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4000 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4001 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4002 when use_sender is false.
4004 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4006 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4008 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4010 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4011 the configuration file.
4013 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4014 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4016 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4018 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4019 bytes in the message body.
4021 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4022 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4025 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4027 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4029 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4030 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4031 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4032 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4039 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4040 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4042 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4043 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4044 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4045 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4046 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4048 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4049 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4051 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4052 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4053 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4055 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4056 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4057 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4059 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4062 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4063 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4064 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4065 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4066 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4067 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4068 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4074 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4075 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4076 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4077 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4078 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4079 default (and expected) setting.
4081 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4082 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4083 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4084 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4086 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4087 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4089 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4092 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4093 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4094 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4095 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4096 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4097 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4099 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4100 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4101 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4103 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4104 part (NOT match_host).
4106 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4108 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4109 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4110 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4111 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4112 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4113 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4114 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4115 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4116 the same named file.
4118 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4119 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4122 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4123 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4124 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4125 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4128 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4129 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4130 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4132 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4134 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4136 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4138 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4139 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4141 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4142 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4143 before starting the TLS session.
4145 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4147 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4148 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4150 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4151 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4152 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4153 colon in the middle).
4159 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4160 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4161 multiple configurations are in use.
4163 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4164 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4165 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4166 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4167 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4168 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4170 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4171 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4173 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4174 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4175 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4177 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4178 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4181 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4182 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4184 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4186 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4187 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4189 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4197 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4198 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4199 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4200 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4201 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4203 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4206 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4207 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4208 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4209 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4210 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4211 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4213 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4214 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4215 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4216 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4217 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4218 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4219 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4222 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4223 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4224 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4225 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4226 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4228 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4230 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4231 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4232 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4234 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4236 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4237 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4238 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4241 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4242 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4244 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4245 Three changes have been made:
4247 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4248 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4249 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4250 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4251 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4253 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4256 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4257 the modified behaviour.
4263 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4266 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4267 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4269 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4270 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4271 try to track down a specific problem.
4273 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4274 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4275 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4277 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4280 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4281 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4282 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4283 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4284 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4285 some earlier ones do not.
4287 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4289 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4290 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4291 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4292 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4293 address literals are enabled, of course).
4295 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4297 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4298 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4299 by a command such as
4303 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4305 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4307 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4308 remained set. It is now erased.
4310 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4311 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4313 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4314 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4315 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4316 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4317 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4318 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4319 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4320 appropriate error code.
4322 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4323 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4324 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4325 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4326 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4327 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4329 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4330 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4331 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4333 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4334 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4335 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4336 terminate the header.
4338 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4339 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4340 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4342 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4343 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4344 (4.30/29). In particular:
4346 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4349 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4350 to write a maildirsize file.
4352 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4353 the transport, the new value overrides.
4355 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4358 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4359 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4360 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4363 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4364 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4365 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4368 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4369 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4370 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4372 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4373 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4376 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4377 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4378 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4380 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4382 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4384 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4386 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4387 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4390 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4391 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4392 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4393 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4394 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4395 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4396 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4399 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4400 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4401 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4402 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4403 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4406 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4407 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4408 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4409 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4410 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4411 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4412 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4413 cached value only when the same options are set.
4415 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4417 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4418 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4419 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4420 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4421 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4423 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4424 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4425 it is clearly obsolete.
4427 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4430 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4431 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4432 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4435 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4436 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4437 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4438 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4439 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4441 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4442 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4443 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4444 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4446 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4448 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4450 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4451 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4454 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4455 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4456 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4457 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4458 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4459 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4462 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4463 with the -f command-line option.
4465 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4466 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4467 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4468 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4469 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4470 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4472 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4473 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4476 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4477 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4478 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4479 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4480 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4481 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4482 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4483 buffer is too small.
4485 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4486 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4488 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4489 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4490 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4491 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4492 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4493 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4494 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4495 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4496 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4498 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4499 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4500 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4502 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4503 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4506 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4507 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4508 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4509 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4510 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4512 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4513 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4514 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4515 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4518 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4520 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4522 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4523 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4525 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4526 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4527 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4529 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4530 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4531 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4532 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4533 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4535 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4536 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4537 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4538 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4539 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4540 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4541 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4543 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4544 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4545 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4546 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4547 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4548 the test of how many are available.
4550 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4551 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4552 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4553 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4554 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4555 new message is started.
4557 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4558 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4560 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4561 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4563 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4564 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4565 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4568 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4569 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4570 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4571 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4572 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4573 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4574 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4576 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4577 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4578 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4579 interpreted as octal.
4581 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4584 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4585 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4586 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4587 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4588 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4589 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4591 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4592 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4593 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4594 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4596 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4597 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4598 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4599 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4601 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4602 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4605 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4606 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4608 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4610 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4611 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4612 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4613 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4615 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4616 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4617 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4618 supplied", which is not helpful.
4620 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4621 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4622 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4624 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4625 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4626 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4627 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4628 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4629 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4630 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4631 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4633 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4634 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4635 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4636 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4637 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4639 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4640 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4641 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4642 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4643 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4644 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4646 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4647 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4648 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4650 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4652 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4653 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4654 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4657 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4659 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4660 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4661 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4662 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4663 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4664 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4665 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4666 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4668 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4669 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4670 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4671 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4672 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4674 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4677 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4678 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4679 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4680 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4681 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4682 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4683 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4684 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4685 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4691 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4692 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4693 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4695 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4698 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4699 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4700 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4702 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4703 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4704 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4705 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4706 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4707 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4709 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4710 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4711 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4712 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4713 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4714 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4715 the Exim test suite.
4717 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4718 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4719 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4720 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4722 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4723 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4724 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4725 specify it in this variable.
4727 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4728 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4729 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4730 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4732 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4733 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4734 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4735 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4737 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4738 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4739 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4740 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4741 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4743 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4745 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4748 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4749 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4750 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4751 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4752 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4754 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4755 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4757 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4758 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4759 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4760 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4761 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4763 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4764 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4766 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4767 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4768 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4770 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4771 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4773 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4774 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4776 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4777 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4778 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4780 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4781 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4783 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4784 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4785 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4786 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4788 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4790 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4791 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4792 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4793 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4795 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4797 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4798 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4800 25. Added .include_if_exists.
4802 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4803 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4804 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4805 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4806 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4807 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4809 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4811 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4812 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4815 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4817 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4818 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4820 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4821 550 Sender verify failed
4823 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4824 the final line of the response.
4826 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4827 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4828 all other user lookups.
4830 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4833 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4834 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4835 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4836 result into an int without checking.
4838 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4839 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4840 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4842 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4843 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4844 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4845 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4847 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4850 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4851 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4853 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4854 to the empty sender.
4856 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4857 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4858 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4859 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4860 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4861 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4862 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4865 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4866 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4867 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4868 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4871 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4872 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4874 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4877 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4878 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4880 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4882 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4883 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4886 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4887 as soon as it is encountered.
4889 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4891 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4894 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4895 recognizes a tab character.
4897 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4898 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4899 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4900 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4902 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4904 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4907 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4909 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4911 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4912 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4915 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4916 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4917 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4918 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4919 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4921 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4922 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4924 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4925 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4926 list (.included file names were always shown).
4928 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4929 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4930 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4933 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4934 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4936 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4938 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4940 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4942 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4943 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4944 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4945 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4946 failures to open the logs.
4948 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4949 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4950 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4951 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4952 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4953 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4954 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4960 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4961 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4962 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4965 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4966 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4967 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4969 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4970 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4971 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4973 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4974 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4975 causing some misleading effects.
4977 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4978 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4979 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4981 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4982 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4983 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4984 queue-runner function directly.
4990 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4993 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4994 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4995 was always written to the default place.
4997 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4998 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4999 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5001 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5003 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5005 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5006 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5007 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5009 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5010 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5013 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5014 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5015 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5017 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5018 command line option is disabled.
5020 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5021 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5023 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5025 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5027 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5028 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5030 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5032 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5033 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5034 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5035 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5036 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5037 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5039 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5040 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5043 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5044 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5046 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5047 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5049 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5050 received was valid base64.
5052 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5053 name of the variable that was being set.
5055 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5057 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5058 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5059 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5060 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5061 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5062 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5064 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5066 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5067 nor realm was specified.
5069 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5070 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5071 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5072 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5074 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5075 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5076 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5078 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5079 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5080 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5082 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5083 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5084 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5085 some systems use these upper case variants.
5087 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5088 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5089 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5090 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5092 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5094 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5095 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5097 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5098 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5101 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5103 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5104 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5105 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5106 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5108 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5111 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5112 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5113 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5115 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5116 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5118 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5119 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5120 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5121 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5123 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5124 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5125 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5127 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5129 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5130 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5131 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5132 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5135 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5136 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5137 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5139 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5141 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5142 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5144 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5145 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5147 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5148 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5149 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5150 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5151 when emails are that large.
5158 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5159 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5161 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5162 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5163 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5165 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5166 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5167 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5169 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5170 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5171 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5172 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5173 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5175 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5176 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5177 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5178 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5179 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5182 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5183 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5184 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5185 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5186 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5187 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5188 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5189 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5190 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5191 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5192 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5193 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5194 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5195 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5197 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5198 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5201 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5202 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5203 error should be diagnosed.
5205 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5206 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5207 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5208 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5209 appeared instead of "NULL".
5211 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5212 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5213 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5214 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5215 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5216 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5219 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5220 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5221 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5227 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5228 or receiver verification errors.
5230 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5233 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5234 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5235 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5236 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5238 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5239 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5240 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5241 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5242 shouldn't happen again.
5244 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5245 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5246 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5248 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5249 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5251 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5253 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5254 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5256 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5257 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5260 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5261 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5262 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5264 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5265 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5266 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5267 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5269 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5270 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5271 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5272 to define what should happen).
5274 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5275 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5276 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5278 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5280 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5282 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5283 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5285 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5286 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5287 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5288 structure in all cases.
5290 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5291 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5292 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5293 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5295 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5296 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5299 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5300 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5302 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5303 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5305 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5306 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5307 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5309 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5310 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5311 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5313 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5314 the book and for uniformity.
5316 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5318 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5319 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5320 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5321 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5322 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5323 non-existent command as the problem.
5325 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5326 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5327 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5329 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5331 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5332 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5333 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5335 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5336 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5337 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5338 timestamps using strftime().
5340 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5341 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5343 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5344 transport-time rewrites.
5346 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5347 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5348 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5349 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5351 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5352 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5354 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5355 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5356 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5357 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5360 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5361 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5362 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5363 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5364 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5365 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5366 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5368 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5369 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5370 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5371 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5372 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5374 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5375 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5376 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5377 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5378 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5379 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5380 remaining text gets split now.
5382 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5383 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5384 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5385 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5387 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5388 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5389 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5390 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5393 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5394 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5395 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5396 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5397 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5398 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5399 passed through if needed.
5401 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5402 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5403 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5404 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5405 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5406 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5408 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5409 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5410 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5411 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5412 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5414 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5415 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5416 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5417 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5418 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5420 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5421 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5424 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5425 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5426 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5427 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5428 mayhem of various kinds.
5430 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5431 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5432 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5433 the right test for positive values.
5435 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5436 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5437 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5438 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5439 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5440 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5441 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5442 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5443 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5444 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5447 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5450 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5451 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5454 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5455 the existing equality matching.
5457 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5458 dealing with inode numbers.
5460 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5461 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5462 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5464 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5465 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5466 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5467 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5470 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5471 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5472 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5473 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5474 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5475 relay addresses has also been removed.
5477 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5479 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5480 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5481 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5483 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5484 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5485 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5486 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5487 processing applies to CR:
5489 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5490 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5492 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5493 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5494 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5495 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5497 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5498 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5499 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5501 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5502 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5503 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5504 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5505 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5506 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5509 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5512 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5513 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5514 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5515 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5518 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5520 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5522 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5524 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5525 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5526 not considered personal.
5528 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5530 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5532 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5534 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5535 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5536 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5537 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5538 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5539 header lines, and spool format errors.
5541 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5542 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5543 for more flexibility.
5545 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5546 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5547 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5549 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5552 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5553 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5554 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5555 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5556 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5557 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5558 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5559 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5560 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5562 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5563 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5564 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5565 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5566 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5567 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5568 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5570 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5571 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5572 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5574 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5575 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5576 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5577 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5578 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5579 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5580 instead of killing the process with assert().
5582 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5583 than Unicode encoding.
5585 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5586 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5587 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5588 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5590 77. Added process_log_path.
5592 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5593 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5595 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5596 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5598 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5599 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5600 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5602 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5603 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5604 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5605 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5606 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5609 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5610 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5613 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5614 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5615 they will be used during message reception.
5621 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.