1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
9 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
16 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
17 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
18 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
20 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
22 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
25 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
27 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
29 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
31 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
32 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
34 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
35 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
37 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
38 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
40 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
41 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
42 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
44 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
46 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
47 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
49 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
51 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
53 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
54 non-compliant senders.
55 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
57 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
58 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
59 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
61 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
62 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
63 in spool file corruption.
65 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
66 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
67 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
70 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
71 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
72 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
74 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
75 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
77 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
79 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
81 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
83 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
84 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
85 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
87 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
88 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
89 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
90 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
92 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
93 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
95 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
96 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
97 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
98 resolver implementation change.
100 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
101 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
103 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
105 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
107 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
108 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
110 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
111 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
113 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
114 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
116 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
117 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
118 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
119 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
120 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
122 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
124 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
125 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
126 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
128 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
130 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
131 read-only, out of scope).
132 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
134 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
135 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
136 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
137 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
139 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
141 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
142 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
143 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
144 real issues in debug logging.
146 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
147 assignment on my part. Fixed.
149 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
150 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
151 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
153 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
154 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
155 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
158 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
159 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
161 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
162 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
163 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
164 needs to override this, it can.
166 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
167 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
168 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
170 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
171 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
172 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
173 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
175 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
181 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
182 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
184 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
186 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
189 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
190 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
192 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
193 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
194 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
196 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
197 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
198 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
199 not safe for signals.
201 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
202 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
203 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
204 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
207 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
209 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
210 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
211 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
212 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
213 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
215 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
216 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
217 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
218 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
219 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
220 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
222 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
223 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
224 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
225 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
227 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
228 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
229 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
230 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
232 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
233 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
234 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
235 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
236 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
237 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
238 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
239 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
240 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
242 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
243 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
244 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
245 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
247 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
248 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
249 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
250 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
251 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
252 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
253 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
254 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
255 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
256 details in the main documentation.
258 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
260 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
262 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
263 repository when doing development or release builds.
265 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
266 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
268 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
269 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
272 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
274 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
275 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
277 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
278 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
280 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
281 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
283 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
284 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
286 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
287 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
289 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
291 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
294 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
295 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
296 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
298 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
300 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
302 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
303 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
309 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
311 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
312 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
314 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
316 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
318 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
321 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
322 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
324 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
325 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
327 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
330 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
333 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
334 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
336 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
337 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
338 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
339 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
341 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
342 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
348 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
351 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
352 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
353 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
355 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
356 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
358 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
359 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
360 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
362 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
363 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
365 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
366 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
368 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
369 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
371 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
372 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
374 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
375 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
377 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
380 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
381 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
383 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
384 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
386 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
387 SQL string expansion failure details.
388 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
390 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
391 Patch from Simon Arlott.
393 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
394 extern declarations in function scope.
395 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
397 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
398 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
399 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
402 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
403 Patch from Mark Zealey.
405 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
406 Patch from Mark Zealey.
408 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
409 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
411 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
412 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
414 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
415 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
418 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
420 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
422 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
423 Patch by Simon Arlott
425 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
426 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
432 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
433 consequences so log it to the panic log.
435 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
436 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
438 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
440 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
441 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
442 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
444 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
445 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
446 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
448 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
449 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
450 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
451 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
453 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
454 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
455 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
456 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
458 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
459 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
460 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
463 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
466 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
467 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
468 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
469 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
470 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
476 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
477 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
478 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
480 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
481 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
483 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
485 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
487 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
489 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
491 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
493 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
494 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
495 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
496 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
498 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
499 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
500 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
501 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
502 more caution in buffer sizes.
504 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
506 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
508 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
510 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
512 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
514 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
516 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
518 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
519 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
520 ignore trailing whitespace.
522 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
524 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
527 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
528 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
530 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
531 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
532 Notification from John Horne.
534 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
537 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
538 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
541 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
544 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
545 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
546 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
548 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
549 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
550 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
553 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
554 option (effectively making it always true).
556 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
557 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
559 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
560 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
562 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
563 run-time user, instead of root.
565 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
566 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
568 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
569 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
572 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
573 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
574 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
576 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
578 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
584 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
585 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
588 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
589 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
592 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
593 Patch from Alain Williams
595 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
597 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
598 Patch from Andreas Metzler
600 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
601 Patch from Kirill Miazine
603 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
605 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
607 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
608 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
610 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
612 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
614 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
615 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
616 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
618 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
619 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
621 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
622 Patch by Simon Arlott
624 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
625 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
631 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
633 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
635 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
637 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
639 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
645 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
646 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
648 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
649 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
652 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
653 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
654 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
656 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
657 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
659 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
660 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
661 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
662 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
664 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
665 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
666 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
668 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
670 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
672 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
673 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
675 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
677 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
678 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
679 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
680 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
682 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
683 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
685 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
687 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
689 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
690 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
692 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
693 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
695 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
696 that they are available at delivery time.
698 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
700 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
701 incoming_port log selectors.
703 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
704 setting expands to an empty string.
706 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
707 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
709 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
710 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
712 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
713 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
715 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
716 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
718 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
719 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
721 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
722 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
724 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
726 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
727 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
729 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
730 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
732 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
734 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
735 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
737 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
739 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
741 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
744 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
745 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
747 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
748 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
750 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
751 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
753 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
754 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
756 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
757 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
759 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
760 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
762 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
763 plus update to original patch.
765 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
767 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
768 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
770 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
772 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
774 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
776 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
778 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
779 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
781 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
782 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
784 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
785 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
787 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
788 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
790 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
792 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
794 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
796 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
802 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
803 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
804 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
806 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
807 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
808 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
809 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
810 build errors in sieve.c.
812 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
813 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
814 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
816 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
818 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
820 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
822 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
828 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
830 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
831 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
832 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
833 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
834 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
835 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
836 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
837 for iplsearch lookups.
839 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
840 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
841 previously such lookups could never work.
843 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
844 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
845 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
847 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
850 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
851 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
852 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
853 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
854 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
855 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
857 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
858 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
860 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
861 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
862 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
863 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
864 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
865 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
867 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
870 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
872 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
873 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
876 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
877 by clients under certain conditions.
879 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
880 "_responses" off the end of the name.
882 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
884 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
885 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
887 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
889 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
891 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
893 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
894 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
896 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
898 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
899 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
901 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
903 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
905 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
906 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
907 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
908 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
910 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
911 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
912 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
914 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
915 and InterBase are left for another time.)
917 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
919 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
921 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
923 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
924 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
925 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
931 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
932 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
935 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
936 issue a MAIL command.
938 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
940 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
942 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
943 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
944 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
945 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
946 item. This has been fixed.
948 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
949 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
951 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
952 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
954 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
955 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
956 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
958 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
960 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
961 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
962 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
963 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
964 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
966 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
967 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
968 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
970 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
971 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
972 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
973 the server_setid option was incorrect.
975 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
977 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
979 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
980 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
981 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
982 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
983 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
985 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
987 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
988 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
989 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
992 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
994 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
996 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
998 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1000 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1002 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1003 no_callout_flush is set.
1005 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1006 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1007 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1010 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1012 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1013 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1014 other ACL rejections are.
1016 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1017 with slight modification.
1019 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1020 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1022 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1023 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1026 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1027 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1029 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1031 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1032 expansion side effects.
1034 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1035 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1036 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1039 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1040 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1041 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1043 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1044 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1045 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1046 were accidentally chopped off.
1048 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1049 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1050 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1051 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1052 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1053 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1054 pipelining has not been advertised.
1056 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1058 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1059 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1060 This has been fixed.
1062 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1063 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1064 reported on Solaris.
1066 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1067 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1068 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1069 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1070 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1071 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1072 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1074 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1077 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1079 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1081 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1082 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1083 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1084 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1085 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1086 criteria to be more general.
1088 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1089 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1090 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1091 host_all_ignored option.
1093 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1094 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1095 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1096 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1097 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1098 is what is supposed to happen).
1100 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1101 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1102 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1103 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1104 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1107 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1108 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1109 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1110 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1111 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1112 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1115 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1117 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1118 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1120 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1121 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1123 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1125 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1127 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1128 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1129 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1130 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1131 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1132 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1133 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1134 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1135 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1136 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1137 least in a lot of common cases.
1139 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1140 advertised in response to EHLO.
1146 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1147 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1149 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1150 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1152 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1153 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1154 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1156 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1157 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1158 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1159 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1160 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1166 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1167 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1170 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1171 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1172 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1174 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1175 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1176 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1177 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1178 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1179 rather than extend the field.
1185 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1186 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1187 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1188 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1191 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1192 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1193 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1195 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1196 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1197 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1199 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1200 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1201 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1204 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1205 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1206 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1207 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1208 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1209 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1210 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1211 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1212 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1213 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1214 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1216 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1219 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1220 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1221 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1222 ignores EPIPE as well.
1224 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1225 (quoted-printable decoding).
1227 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1228 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1230 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1232 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1234 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1236 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1237 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1239 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1242 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1243 miscellaneous code fixes
1245 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1248 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1249 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1250 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1251 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1252 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1253 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1254 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1255 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1257 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1258 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1259 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1260 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1262 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1263 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1264 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1265 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1266 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1267 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1268 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1269 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1270 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1272 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1275 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1276 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1277 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1278 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1279 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1280 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1281 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1282 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1284 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1285 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1288 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1289 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1290 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1291 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1292 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1293 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1294 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1295 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1296 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1297 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1298 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1299 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1300 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1302 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1303 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1304 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1305 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1306 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1307 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1308 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1310 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1311 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1312 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1313 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1314 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1315 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1316 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1317 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1318 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1319 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1321 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1322 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1323 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1324 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1325 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1327 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1328 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1329 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1330 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1331 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1332 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1333 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1335 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1336 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1337 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1338 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1339 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1340 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1343 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1344 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1345 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1348 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1349 if any retry times were supplied.
1351 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1352 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1353 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1355 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1357 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1359 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1360 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1361 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1362 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1363 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1364 before) are ignored.
1366 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1367 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1369 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1370 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1371 committing the later change.]
1373 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1374 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1375 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1376 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1377 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1378 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1379 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1380 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1381 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1383 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1384 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1385 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1386 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1387 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1388 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1389 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1390 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1391 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1393 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1394 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1395 hammering the server.
1397 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1398 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1400 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1402 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1403 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1404 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1406 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1407 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1408 one case where this was not true.
1410 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1411 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1412 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1413 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1416 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1417 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1418 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1419 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1420 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1421 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1422 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1423 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1424 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1427 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1428 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1429 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1430 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1432 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1433 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1435 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1436 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1437 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1439 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1441 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1443 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1445 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1446 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1447 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1448 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1450 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1451 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1453 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1454 be meaningful with "accept".
1456 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1457 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1459 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1460 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1461 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1463 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1464 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1465 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1466 there is data to show.
1467 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1469 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1470 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1471 as well as the number of messages.
1473 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1474 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1475 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1477 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1478 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1479 have a flag are now skipped.
1481 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1482 Added the -emptyok flag.
1484 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1485 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1487 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1488 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1489 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1491 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1494 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1495 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1497 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1499 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1500 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1502 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1504 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1505 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1506 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1507 contravention of the specifications.
1509 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1510 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1511 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1513 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1514 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1515 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1517 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1519 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1520 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1521 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1522 some point in the past.
1524 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1525 transport during callout processing was broken.
1527 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1528 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1530 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1531 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1533 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1534 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1536 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1542 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1543 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1545 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1546 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1547 there is data to show.
1548 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1550 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1551 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1553 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1554 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1556 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1557 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1559 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1560 submissions from trusted users.
1562 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1563 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1565 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1566 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1567 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1568 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1569 there is now a framework to start from.
1571 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1572 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1573 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1575 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1577 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1579 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1581 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1582 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1583 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1585 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1588 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1589 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1590 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1592 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1593 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1594 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1597 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1598 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1599 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1600 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1601 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1603 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1604 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1606 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1608 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1609 operations in malware.c.
1611 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1614 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1615 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1616 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1619 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1620 statements to "add_header".
1622 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1623 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1625 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1626 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1629 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1633 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1634 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1635 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1638 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1639 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1641 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1642 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1644 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1645 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1646 any possible encoding problems.
1648 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1649 but not after initializing Perl.
1651 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1652 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1653 apparently, which is not desirable.
1655 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1658 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1661 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1663 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1664 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1665 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1666 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1668 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1669 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1670 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1672 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1673 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1674 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1677 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1678 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1679 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1680 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1681 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1687 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1688 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1690 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1693 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1694 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1695 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1696 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1697 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1698 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1699 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1700 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1703 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1705 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1706 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1707 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1709 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1710 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1711 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1714 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1715 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1717 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1718 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1719 option (which defaults to 0600).
1721 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1723 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1724 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1725 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1726 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1727 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1728 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1729 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1731 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1737 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1738 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1739 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1740 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1741 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1742 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1745 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1746 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1748 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1750 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1751 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1752 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1753 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1754 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1757 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1758 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1760 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1761 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1762 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1763 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1764 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1766 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1767 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1768 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1769 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1771 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1772 be the same on different OS.
1774 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1777 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1778 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1780 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1783 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1784 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1785 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1786 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1787 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1788 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1791 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1792 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1793 when Exim was called.
1795 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1796 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1798 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1799 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1800 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1801 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1803 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1804 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1805 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1806 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1809 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1810 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1811 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1813 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1814 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1815 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1817 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1820 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1821 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1822 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1823 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1824 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1825 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1826 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1827 values from the SRV records were lost.
1829 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1830 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1831 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1833 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1834 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1835 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1837 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1838 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1839 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1840 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1841 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1842 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1843 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1844 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1845 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1846 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1848 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1849 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1850 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1852 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1853 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1855 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1856 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1857 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1858 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1861 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1862 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1863 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1865 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1866 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1867 PH/23 above applies.
1869 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1870 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1871 (for which there is an explicit test).
1873 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1875 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1876 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1877 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1878 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1879 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1881 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1882 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1883 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1884 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1886 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1887 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1888 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1890 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1892 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1894 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1895 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1896 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1898 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1899 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1900 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1901 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1902 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1904 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1905 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1906 the message gets confusing).
1908 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1909 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1910 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1911 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1913 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1914 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1915 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1916 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1919 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1920 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1921 the different processes.
1923 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1925 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1927 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1928 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1930 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1931 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1933 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1934 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1935 messages matching specified criteria.
1937 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1939 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1940 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1942 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1943 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1944 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1945 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1946 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1947 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1948 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1949 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1950 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1951 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1953 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1954 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1955 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1957 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1959 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1960 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1961 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1962 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1963 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1964 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1965 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1968 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1969 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1971 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1973 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1975 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1977 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1978 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1979 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1980 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1981 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1982 size of the count of files.
1984 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1986 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1989 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1990 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1991 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1992 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1994 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1995 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1996 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1998 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1999 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2000 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2001 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2002 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2004 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2005 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2007 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2008 will now be deprecated.
2010 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2012 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2013 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2014 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2016 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2017 with very large, slow to parse queues
2019 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2021 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2023 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2024 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2025 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2028 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2029 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2030 Sieve code now uses this.
2032 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2033 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2035 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2036 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2038 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2040 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2041 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2042 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2043 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2044 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2046 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2047 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2048 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2049 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2051 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2053 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2055 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2056 is preferred over IPv4.
2058 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2059 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2060 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2061 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2062 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2063 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2064 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2066 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2067 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2068 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2070 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2072 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2073 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2074 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2075 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2076 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2077 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2078 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2079 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2080 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2081 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2082 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2084 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2085 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2086 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2092 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2094 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2095 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2097 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2098 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2099 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2101 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2103 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2106 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2109 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2110 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2111 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2114 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2115 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2117 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2118 inside the third argument.
2120 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2121 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2124 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2125 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2127 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2128 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2130 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2132 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2133 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2136 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2138 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2139 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2140 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2141 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2142 identical. For example:
2144 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2146 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2147 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2148 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2150 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2151 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2152 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2153 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2155 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2156 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2157 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2160 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2162 o fixes some comments
2163 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2164 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2165 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2166 and documents the missing references header update
2170 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2171 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2174 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2175 Electronic Mail") by including:
2177 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2179 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2180 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2181 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2182 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2183 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2185 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2187 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2189 The auto-replied keyword:
2191 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2192 message by an automatic process,
2194 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2196 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2197 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2199 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2200 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2203 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2204 to the default Received: header definition.
2206 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2208 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2209 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2210 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2212 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2213 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2214 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2216 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2217 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2218 and treats the condition as false.
2220 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2222 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2223 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2224 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2225 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2226 not changing the active code.
2228 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2229 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2231 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2232 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2234 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2237 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2238 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2239 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2240 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2241 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2242 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2243 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2244 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2245 the text comparison.
2247 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2248 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2249 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2250 The same fix has been applied.
2256 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2257 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2260 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2261 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2263 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2265 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2266 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2267 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2268 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2269 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2271 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2272 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2273 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2274 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2277 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2285 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2286 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2288 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2290 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2292 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2293 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2294 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2296 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2297 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2298 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2300 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2301 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2304 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2305 ${stat: expansion item.
2307 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2308 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2310 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2311 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2314 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2316 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2319 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2320 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2322 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2324 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2325 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2326 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2327 the end of the subprocess.
2329 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2330 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2331 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2332 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2333 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2335 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2337 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2339 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2340 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2342 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2344 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2346 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2347 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2350 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2352 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2353 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2354 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2356 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2357 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2359 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2360 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2362 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2363 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2365 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2366 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2368 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2369 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2370 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2371 contributed by a Radius user.
2373 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2374 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2376 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2377 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2379 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2382 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2383 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2386 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2387 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2388 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2389 header lines when this was not necessary.
2391 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2393 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2394 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2395 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2398 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2401 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2402 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2403 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2404 return code was incorrect.
2406 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2408 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2410 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2412 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2414 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2415 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2416 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2417 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2418 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2421 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2423 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2424 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2425 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2426 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2427 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2428 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2429 which is clearly wrong.
2431 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2433 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2434 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2435 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2438 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2439 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2441 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2443 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2444 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2446 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2447 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2449 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2450 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2452 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2453 recipients, not senders.
2455 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2456 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2458 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2460 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2462 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2463 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2464 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2465 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2467 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2469 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2470 clock is set back in time.
2472 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2473 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2475 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2476 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2478 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2479 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2482 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2483 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2486 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2489 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2491 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2492 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2493 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2495 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2496 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2497 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2498 helo verification defer as a failure.
2500 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2501 actual error message.
2507 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2509 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2510 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2511 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2512 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2514 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2516 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2517 can still be requested.
2519 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2520 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2521 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2522 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2524 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2525 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2526 circumstances, but probably never did.
2528 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2529 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2530 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2533 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2535 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2536 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2538 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2540 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2542 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2543 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2544 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2545 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2546 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2547 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2549 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2550 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2551 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2552 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2553 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2554 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2556 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2557 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2559 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2560 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2562 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2563 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2565 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2567 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2569 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2571 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2573 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2575 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2577 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2579 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2580 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2581 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2583 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2584 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2585 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2586 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2588 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2589 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2590 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2592 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2593 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2594 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2595 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2597 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2598 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2601 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2602 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2603 should work with maildirs and everything.
2605 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2606 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2608 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2611 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2612 function for BDB 4.3.
2614 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2616 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2617 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2620 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2621 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2622 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2623 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2624 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2625 formatting function string_vformat().
2627 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2628 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2629 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2630 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2631 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2632 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2633 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2634 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2636 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2637 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2640 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2641 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2643 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2644 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2645 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2646 test. It is now used for both.
2648 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2649 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2650 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2651 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2652 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2653 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2655 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2656 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2657 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2660 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2661 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2662 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2664 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2665 experimental DomainKeys support:
2667 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2668 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2669 the control was given.
2671 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2673 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2675 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2677 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2678 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2679 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2682 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2683 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2684 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2685 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2686 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2687 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2690 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2691 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2692 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2693 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2694 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2695 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2697 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2698 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2699 do -d+all out of habit.
2701 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2702 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2705 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2706 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2707 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2708 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2709 record types that Exim uses.
2711 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2712 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2713 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2714 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2715 non-existent file that was broken.
2717 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2718 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2720 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2721 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2722 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2724 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2726 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2727 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2728 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2729 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2730 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2733 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2734 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2735 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2736 at a slight CPU cost.
2738 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2739 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2741 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2744 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2746 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2747 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2753 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2754 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2756 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2758 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2760 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2761 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2763 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2764 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2765 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2766 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2767 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2768 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2771 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2772 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2773 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2774 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2777 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2778 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2779 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2780 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2781 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2782 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2783 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2786 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2787 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2789 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2790 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2791 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2792 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2793 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2794 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2796 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2797 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2798 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2799 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2801 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2804 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2805 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2807 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2808 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2809 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2810 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2813 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2815 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2816 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2818 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2819 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2820 to what was transported.)
2822 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2824 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2825 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2826 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2827 spamd_address settings.
2829 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2830 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2831 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2832 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2833 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2835 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2837 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2838 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2839 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2840 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2841 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2843 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2844 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2846 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2847 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2848 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2849 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2850 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2851 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2852 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2855 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2856 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2857 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2858 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2859 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2860 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2861 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2864 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2866 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2867 driver and ACL definitions.
2869 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2870 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2872 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2873 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2874 understands it better than I do:
2876 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2877 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2879 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2880 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2881 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2882 => three warnings about OTP not working
2883 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2885 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2886 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2887 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2888 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2890 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2891 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2893 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2894 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2895 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2897 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2898 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2901 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2902 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2905 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2906 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2907 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2909 warn !verify = sender
2910 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2912 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2913 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2915 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2917 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2918 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2920 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2921 nomenclature these days.)
2923 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2924 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2926 PH/30 In these circumstances:
2927 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2928 . First host does not offer TLS;
2929 . First host accepts first address;
2930 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2931 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2932 . Second host accepts second address.
2933 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2934 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2937 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2938 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2939 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2940 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2941 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2943 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2944 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2946 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2947 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2949 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2950 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2951 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2953 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2954 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2957 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2959 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2960 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2961 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2962 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2963 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2964 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2965 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2967 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2968 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2969 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2970 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2971 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2973 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2974 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2977 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2978 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2979 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2980 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2981 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2982 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2984 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2986 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2987 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2988 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2989 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2990 printable escape sequences.
2992 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2993 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2996 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2997 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3000 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3001 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3002 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3003 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3004 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3006 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3007 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3008 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3010 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3012 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3013 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3016 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3017 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3018 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3019 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3020 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3021 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3022 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3023 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3024 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3027 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3028 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3029 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3030 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3034 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3035 ----------------------------------------
3037 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3038 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3039 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3040 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3041 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3042 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3045 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3046 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3047 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3048 historical information.
3054 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3056 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3057 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3059 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3060 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3063 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3064 filter fails to execute.
3066 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3067 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3068 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3069 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3070 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3072 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3074 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3075 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3076 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3077 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3079 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3080 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3081 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3082 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3083 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3085 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3087 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3089 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3090 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3091 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3092 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3094 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3095 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3096 sender verification.
3098 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3099 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3101 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3103 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3106 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3107 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3109 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3110 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3112 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3113 information about exactly what failed.
3115 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3117 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3118 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3119 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3121 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3122 It is now set to "smtps".
3124 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3125 ignore_target_hosts.
3127 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3128 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3129 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3130 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3133 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3134 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3135 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3137 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3138 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3139 wake it up if nothing else does.
3141 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3142 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3143 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3146 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3147 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3149 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3151 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3152 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3153 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3154 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3155 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3156 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3157 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3158 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3160 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3161 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3162 than one IP address.
3164 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3165 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3166 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3167 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3169 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3170 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3171 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3172 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3173 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3176 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3177 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3178 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3179 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3181 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3182 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3185 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3186 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3187 $sender_host_address.
3189 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3190 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3191 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3192 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3193 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3196 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3198 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3199 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3201 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3202 just the host names, not the priorities.
3204 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3205 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3206 controlled by a keyword.
3208 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3209 multiple records are returned.
3211 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3212 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3215 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3217 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3218 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3220 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3221 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3222 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3224 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3226 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3228 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3230 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3231 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3232 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3233 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3234 because the tests only now provoked it.
3236 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3237 (this can affect the format of dates).
3239 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3240 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3241 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3242 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3244 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3246 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3247 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3248 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3249 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3251 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3252 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3253 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3255 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3258 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3259 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3260 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3261 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3262 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3263 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3266 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3267 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3268 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3271 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3272 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3273 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3275 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3276 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3277 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3278 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3279 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3280 so I produce this patch..."
3282 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3283 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3286 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3287 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3288 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3289 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3292 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3294 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3295 long debug lines gets shown.
3297 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3298 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3300 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3302 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3303 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3304 of $primary_hostname.
3306 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3307 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3308 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3309 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3310 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3311 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3312 by change 4.50/55 above.
3314 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3315 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3316 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3317 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3318 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3319 running as the user.
3322 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3323 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3324 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3327 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3328 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3330 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3331 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3332 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3333 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3334 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3336 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3337 This has been fixed.
3339 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3340 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3341 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3342 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3345 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3347 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3348 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3349 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3350 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3352 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3353 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3355 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3356 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3357 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3359 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3360 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3361 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3364 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3365 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3366 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3368 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3369 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3370 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3371 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3373 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3374 during host lookups.
3376 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3377 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3379 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3381 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3382 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3383 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3384 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3385 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3388 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3389 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3391 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3392 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3393 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3395 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3397 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3398 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3399 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3400 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3401 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3402 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3405 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3406 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3407 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3408 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3409 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3411 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3414 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3416 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3417 "vacation" handling.
3419 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3420 OS variants using glibc.
3422 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3425 ----------------------------------------------------
3426 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3427 ----------------------------------------------------
3433 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3434 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3437 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3438 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3441 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3442 filter fails to execute.
3444 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3445 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3446 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3447 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3448 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3450 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3451 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3452 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3453 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3455 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3456 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3457 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3458 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3459 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3461 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3463 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3464 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3465 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3466 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3468 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3469 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3470 sender verification.
3472 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3473 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3475 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3476 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3478 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3479 ignore_target_hosts.
3481 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3482 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3483 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3484 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3487 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3488 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3489 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3491 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3492 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3493 wake it up if nothing else does.
3495 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3496 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3497 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3500 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3501 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3503 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3505 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3506 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3509 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3510 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3513 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3514 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3515 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3516 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3517 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3520 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3521 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3524 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3525 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3526 $sender_host_address.
3528 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3530 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3531 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3532 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3534 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3537 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3538 (this can affect the format of dates).
3540 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3541 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3542 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3543 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3545 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3546 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3547 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3549 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3550 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3551 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3552 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3554 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3555 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3556 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3558 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3561 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3562 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3563 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3564 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3565 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3566 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3569 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3570 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3571 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3572 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3575 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3576 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3577 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3578 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3579 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3580 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3581 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3583 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3584 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3585 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3586 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3587 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3588 running as the user.
3591 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3592 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3593 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3596 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3597 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3598 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3599 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3600 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3602 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3603 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3604 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3605 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3608 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3609 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3610 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3611 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3612 because the tests only now provoked it.
3618 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3619 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3620 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3621 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3622 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3623 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3624 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3626 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3627 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3630 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3632 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3634 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3635 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3638 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3639 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3640 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3641 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3642 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3644 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3645 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3647 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3649 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3651 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3654 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3655 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3657 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3658 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3659 affecting debugging statements).
3661 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3663 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3664 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3665 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3666 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3667 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3668 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3669 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3670 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3671 after the received time, and all would be well.
3673 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3674 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3675 condition in an expansion string.
3677 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3679 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3680 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3681 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3682 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3683 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3684 job under whatever limits there are.
3686 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3688 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3691 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3692 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3693 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3694 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3697 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3698 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3699 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3700 binary data in such strings.
3702 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3704 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3705 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3706 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3707 failure, which is pointless.
3709 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3711 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3713 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3714 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3715 Sender: header lines.
3717 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3718 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3719 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3721 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3722 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3723 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3724 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3725 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3728 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3729 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3730 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3731 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3732 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3734 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3735 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3736 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3739 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3740 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3742 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3743 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3745 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3747 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3749 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3751 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3754 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3756 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3758 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3759 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3760 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3761 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3763 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3764 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3770 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3771 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3772 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3774 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3775 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3776 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3777 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3778 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3779 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3781 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3782 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3783 verification failure".
3785 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3786 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3787 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3788 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3790 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3791 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3792 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3793 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3794 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3795 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3796 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3797 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3798 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3799 treated as a timeout.
3801 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3802 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3803 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3804 not set for Exim filters).
3806 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3807 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3808 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3810 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3812 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3813 try to make them clearer.
3815 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3816 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3818 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3820 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3822 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3823 only the Cygwin environment.
3825 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3826 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3827 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3828 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3829 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3831 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3832 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3833 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3834 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3835 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3836 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3837 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3839 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3840 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3842 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3844 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3845 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3846 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3848 To: susanne@some.where
3850 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3851 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3852 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3853 of addresses in From: header lines).
3855 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3856 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3857 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3859 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3860 treated as non-personal.
3862 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3863 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3865 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3867 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3869 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3870 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3871 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3873 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3874 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3876 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3877 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3878 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3879 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3880 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3881 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3883 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3884 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3885 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3886 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3887 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3888 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3889 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3890 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3892 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3894 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3895 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3897 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3898 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3899 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3901 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3902 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3904 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3905 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3906 rather than long int.
3908 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3910 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3916 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3917 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3918 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3919 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3920 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3921 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3927 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3928 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3930 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3931 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3932 socklen_t is defined.
3934 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3937 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3940 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3941 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3942 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3943 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3944 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3946 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3947 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3948 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3949 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3951 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3952 of flapping under certain conditions.
3954 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3955 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3956 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3958 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3960 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3962 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3963 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3964 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3965 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3967 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3968 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3969 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3970 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3971 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3972 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3973 preserved with the message after it was received.
3975 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3976 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3977 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3978 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3979 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3980 test suite worked just fine.
3982 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3983 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3984 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3986 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3987 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3990 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3991 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3992 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3993 does not fully solve it.
3995 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3996 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3997 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3998 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3999 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4001 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4002 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4003 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4005 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4006 string, for example:
4008 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4010 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4011 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4012 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4013 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4014 the routers could not see them.
4016 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4017 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4019 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4020 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4023 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4024 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4025 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4026 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4027 that needed quoting.
4029 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4030 was not being matched caselessly.
4032 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4035 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4036 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4037 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4038 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4039 when use_sender is false.
4041 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4043 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4045 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4047 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4048 the configuration file.
4050 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4051 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4053 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4055 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4056 bytes in the message body.
4058 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4059 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4062 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4064 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4066 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4067 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4068 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4069 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4076 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4077 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4079 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4080 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4081 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4082 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4083 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4085 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4086 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4088 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4089 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4090 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4092 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4093 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4094 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4096 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4099 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4100 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4101 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4102 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4103 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4104 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4105 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4111 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4112 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4113 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4114 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4115 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4116 default (and expected) setting.
4118 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4119 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4120 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4121 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4123 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4124 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4126 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4129 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4130 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4131 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4132 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4133 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4134 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4136 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4137 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4138 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4140 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4141 part (NOT match_host).
4143 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4145 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4146 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4147 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4148 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4149 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4150 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4151 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4152 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4153 the same named file.
4155 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4156 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4159 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4160 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4161 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4162 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4165 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4166 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4167 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4169 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4171 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4173 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4175 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4176 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4178 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4179 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4180 before starting the TLS session.
4182 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4184 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4185 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4187 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4188 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4189 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4190 colon in the middle).
4196 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4197 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4198 multiple configurations are in use.
4200 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4201 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4202 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4203 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4204 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4205 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4207 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4208 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4210 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4211 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4212 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4214 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4215 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4218 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4219 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4221 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4223 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4224 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4226 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4234 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4235 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4236 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4237 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4238 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4240 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4243 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4244 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4245 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4246 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4247 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4248 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4250 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4251 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4252 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4253 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4254 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4255 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4256 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4259 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4260 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4261 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4262 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4263 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4265 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4267 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4268 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4269 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4271 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4273 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4274 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4275 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4278 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4279 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4281 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4282 Three changes have been made:
4284 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4285 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4286 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4287 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4288 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4290 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4293 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4294 the modified behaviour.
4300 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4303 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4304 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4306 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4307 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4308 try to track down a specific problem.
4310 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4311 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4312 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4314 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4317 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4318 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4319 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4320 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4321 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4322 some earlier ones do not.
4324 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4326 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4327 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4328 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4329 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4330 address literals are enabled, of course).
4332 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4334 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4335 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4336 by a command such as
4340 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4342 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4344 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4345 remained set. It is now erased.
4347 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4348 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4350 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4351 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4352 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4353 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4354 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4355 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4356 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4357 appropriate error code.
4359 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4360 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4361 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4362 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4363 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4364 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4366 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4367 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4368 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4370 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4371 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4372 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4373 terminate the header.
4375 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4376 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4377 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4379 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4380 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4381 (4.30/29). In particular:
4383 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4386 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4387 to write a maildirsize file.
4389 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4390 the transport, the new value overrides.
4392 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4395 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4396 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4397 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4400 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4401 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4402 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4405 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4406 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4407 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4409 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4410 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4413 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4414 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4415 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4417 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4419 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4421 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4423 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4424 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4427 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4428 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4429 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4430 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4431 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4432 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4433 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4436 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4437 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4438 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4439 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4440 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4443 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4444 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4445 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4446 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4447 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4448 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4449 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4450 cached value only when the same options are set.
4452 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4454 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4455 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4456 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4457 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4458 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4460 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4461 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4462 it is clearly obsolete.
4464 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4467 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4468 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4469 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4472 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4473 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4474 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4475 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4476 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4478 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4479 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4480 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4481 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4483 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4485 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4487 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4488 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4491 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4492 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4493 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4494 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4495 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4496 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4499 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4500 with the -f command-line option.
4502 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4503 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4504 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4505 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4506 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4507 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4509 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4510 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4513 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4514 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4515 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4516 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4517 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4518 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4519 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4520 buffer is too small.
4522 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4523 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4525 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4526 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4527 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4528 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4529 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4530 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4531 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4532 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4533 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4535 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4536 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4537 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4539 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4540 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4543 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4544 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4545 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4546 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4547 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4549 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4550 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4551 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4552 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4555 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4557 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4559 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4560 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4562 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4563 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4564 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4566 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4567 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4568 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4569 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4570 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4572 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4573 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4574 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4575 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4576 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4577 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4578 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4580 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4581 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4582 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4583 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4584 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4585 the test of how many are available.
4587 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4588 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4589 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4590 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4591 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4592 new message is started.
4594 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4595 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4597 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4598 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4600 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4601 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4602 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4605 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4606 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4607 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4608 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4609 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4610 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4611 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4613 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4614 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4615 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4616 interpreted as octal.
4618 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4621 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4622 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4623 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4624 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4625 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4626 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4628 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4629 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4630 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4631 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4633 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4634 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4635 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4636 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4638 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4639 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4642 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4643 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4645 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4647 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4648 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4649 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4650 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4652 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4653 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4654 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4655 supplied", which is not helpful.
4657 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4658 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4659 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4661 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4662 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4663 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4664 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4665 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4666 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4667 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4668 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4670 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4671 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4672 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4673 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4674 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4676 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4677 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4678 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4679 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4680 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4681 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4683 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4684 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4685 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4687 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4689 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4690 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4691 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4694 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4696 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4697 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4698 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4699 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4700 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4701 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4702 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4703 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4705 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4706 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4707 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4708 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4709 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4711 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4714 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4715 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4716 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4717 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4718 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4719 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4720 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4721 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4722 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4728 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4729 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4730 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4732 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4735 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4736 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4737 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4739 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4740 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4741 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4742 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4743 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4744 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4746 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4747 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4748 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4749 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4750 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4751 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4752 the Exim test suite.
4754 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4755 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4756 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4757 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4759 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4760 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4761 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4762 specify it in this variable.
4764 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4765 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4766 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4767 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4769 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4770 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4771 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4772 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4774 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4775 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4776 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4777 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4778 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4780 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4782 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4785 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4786 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4787 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4788 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4789 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4791 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4792 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4794 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4795 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4796 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4797 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4798 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4800 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4801 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4803 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4804 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4805 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4807 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4808 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4810 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4811 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4813 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4814 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4815 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4817 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4818 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4820 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4821 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4822 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4823 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4825 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4827 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4828 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4829 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4830 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4832 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4834 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4835 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4837 25. Added .include_if_exists.
4839 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4840 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4841 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4842 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4843 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4844 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4846 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4848 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4849 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4852 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4854 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4855 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4857 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4858 550 Sender verify failed
4860 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4861 the final line of the response.
4863 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4864 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4865 all other user lookups.
4867 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4870 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4871 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4872 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4873 result into an int without checking.
4875 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4876 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4877 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4879 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4880 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4881 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4882 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4884 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4887 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4888 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4890 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4891 to the empty sender.
4893 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4894 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4895 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4896 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4897 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4898 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4899 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4902 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4903 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4904 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4905 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4908 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4909 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4911 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4914 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4915 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4917 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4919 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4920 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4923 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4924 as soon as it is encountered.
4926 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4928 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4931 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4932 recognizes a tab character.
4934 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4935 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4936 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4937 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4939 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4941 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4944 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4946 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4948 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4949 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4952 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4953 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4954 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4955 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4956 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4958 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4959 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4961 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4962 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4963 list (.included file names were always shown).
4965 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4966 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4967 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4970 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4971 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4973 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4975 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4977 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4979 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4980 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4981 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4982 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4983 failures to open the logs.
4985 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4986 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4987 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4988 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4989 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4990 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4991 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4997 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4998 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4999 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5002 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5003 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5004 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5006 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5007 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5008 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5010 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5011 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5012 causing some misleading effects.
5014 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5015 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5016 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5018 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5019 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5020 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5021 queue-runner function directly.
5027 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5030 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5031 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5032 was always written to the default place.
5034 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5035 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5036 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5038 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5040 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5042 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5043 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5044 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5046 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5047 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5050 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5051 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5052 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5054 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5055 command line option is disabled.
5057 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5058 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5060 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5062 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5064 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5065 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5067 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5069 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5070 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5071 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5072 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5073 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5074 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5076 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5077 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5080 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5081 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5083 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5084 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5086 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5087 received was valid base64.
5089 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5090 name of the variable that was being set.
5092 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5094 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5095 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5096 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5097 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5098 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5099 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5101 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5103 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5104 nor realm was specified.
5106 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5107 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5108 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5109 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5111 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5112 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5113 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5115 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5116 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5117 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5119 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5120 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5121 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5122 some systems use these upper case variants.
5124 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5125 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5126 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5127 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5129 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5131 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5132 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5134 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5135 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5138 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5140 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5141 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5142 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5143 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5145 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5148 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5149 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5150 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5152 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5153 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5155 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5156 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5157 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5158 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5160 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5161 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5162 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5164 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5166 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5167 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5168 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5169 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5172 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5173 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5174 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5176 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5178 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5179 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5181 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5182 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5184 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5185 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5186 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5187 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5188 when emails are that large.
5195 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5196 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5198 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5199 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5200 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5202 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5203 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5204 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5206 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5207 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5208 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5209 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5210 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5212 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5213 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5214 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5215 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5216 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5219 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5220 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5221 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5222 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5223 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5224 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5225 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5226 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5227 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5228 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5229 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5230 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5231 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5232 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5234 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5235 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5238 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5239 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5240 error should be diagnosed.
5242 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5243 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5244 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5245 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5246 appeared instead of "NULL".
5248 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5249 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5250 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5251 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5252 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5253 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5256 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5257 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5258 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5264 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5265 or receiver verification errors.
5267 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5270 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5271 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5272 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5273 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5275 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5276 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5277 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5278 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5279 shouldn't happen again.
5281 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5282 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5283 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5285 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5286 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5288 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5290 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5291 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5293 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5294 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5297 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5298 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5299 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5301 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5302 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5303 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5304 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5306 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5307 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5308 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5309 to define what should happen).
5311 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5312 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5313 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5315 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5317 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5319 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5320 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5322 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5323 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5324 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5325 structure in all cases.
5327 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5328 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5329 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5330 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5332 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5333 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5336 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5337 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5339 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5340 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5342 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5343 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5344 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5346 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5347 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5348 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5350 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5351 the book and for uniformity.
5353 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5355 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5356 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5357 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5358 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5359 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5360 non-existent command as the problem.
5362 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5363 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5364 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5366 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5368 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5369 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5370 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5372 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5373 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5374 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5375 timestamps using strftime().
5377 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5378 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5380 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5381 transport-time rewrites.
5383 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5384 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5385 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5386 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5388 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5389 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5391 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5392 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5393 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5394 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5397 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5398 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5399 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5400 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5401 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5402 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5403 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5405 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5406 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5407 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5408 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5409 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5411 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5412 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5413 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5414 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5415 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5416 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5417 remaining text gets split now.
5419 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5420 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5421 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5422 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5424 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5425 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5426 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5427 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5430 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5431 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5432 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5433 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5434 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5435 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5436 passed through if needed.
5438 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5439 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5440 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5441 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5442 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5443 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5445 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5446 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5447 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5448 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5449 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5451 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5452 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5453 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5454 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5455 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5457 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5458 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5461 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5462 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5463 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5464 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5465 mayhem of various kinds.
5467 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5468 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5469 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5470 the right test for positive values.
5472 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5473 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5474 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5475 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5476 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5477 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5478 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5479 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5480 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5481 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5484 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5487 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5488 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5491 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5492 the existing equality matching.
5494 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5495 dealing with inode numbers.
5497 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5498 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5499 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5501 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5502 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5503 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5504 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5507 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5508 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5509 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5510 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5511 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5512 relay addresses has also been removed.
5514 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5516 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5517 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5518 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5520 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5521 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5522 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5523 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5524 processing applies to CR:
5526 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5527 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5529 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5530 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5531 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5532 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5534 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5535 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5536 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5538 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5539 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5540 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5541 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5542 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5543 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5546 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5549 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5550 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5551 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5552 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5555 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5557 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5559 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5561 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5562 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5563 not considered personal.
5565 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5567 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5569 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5571 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5572 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5573 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5574 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5575 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5576 header lines, and spool format errors.
5578 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5579 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5580 for more flexibility.
5582 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5583 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5584 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5586 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5589 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5590 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5591 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5592 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5593 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5594 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5595 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5596 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5597 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5599 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5600 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5601 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5602 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5603 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5604 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5605 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5607 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5608 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5609 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5611 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5612 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5613 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5614 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5615 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5616 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5617 instead of killing the process with assert().
5619 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5620 than Unicode encoding.
5622 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5623 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5624 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5625 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5627 77. Added process_log_path.
5629 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5630 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5632 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5633 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5635 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5636 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5637 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5639 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5640 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5641 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5642 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5643 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5646 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5647 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5650 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5651 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5652 they will be used during message reception.
5658 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.