1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.170 2005/06/23 10:02:13 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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10 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
12 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
13 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
14 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
15 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
17 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
19 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
20 can still be requested.
22 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
23 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
24 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
25 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
27 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
28 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
29 circumstances, but probably never did.
31 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
32 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
33 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
36 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
38 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
39 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
41 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
43 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
45 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
46 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
47 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
48 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
49 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
50 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
52 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
53 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
54 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
55 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
56 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
57 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
59 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
60 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
62 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
63 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
65 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
66 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
68 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
70 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
72 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
74 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
76 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
78 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
80 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
82 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
83 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
84 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
86 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
87 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
88 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
89 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
91 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
92 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
93 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
95 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
96 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
97 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
98 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
100 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
101 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
104 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
105 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
106 should work with maildirs and everything.
108 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
109 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
111 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
114 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
115 function for BDB 4.3.
117 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
119 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
120 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
123 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
124 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
125 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
126 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
127 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
128 formatting function string_vformat().
130 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
131 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
132 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
133 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
134 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
135 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
136 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
137 falls back to the previous guessing code."
139 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
140 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
143 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
144 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
146 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
147 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
148 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
149 test. It is now used for both.
151 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
152 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
153 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
154 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
155 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
156 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
158 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
159 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
160 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
163 PH/21 Added another message to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
164 records point to non-existent hosts".
166 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
167 experimental DomainKeys support:
169 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
170 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
171 the control was given.
173 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
175 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
177 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
179 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
180 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
181 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
184 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
185 chmod(), fcntl(), and sscanf(). These were picked up on a user's system
186 that detects such things. There doesn't seem to be a gcc warning option
187 for this - only an attribute that has to be put on the function's
188 prototype. I'm sure I haven't caught all of these, but it's a start.
190 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
191 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
192 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
193 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
194 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
195 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
201 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
202 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
204 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
206 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
208 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
209 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
211 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
212 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
213 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
214 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
215 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
216 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
219 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
220 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
221 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
222 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
225 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
226 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
227 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
228 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
229 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
230 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
231 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
234 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
235 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
237 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
238 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
239 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
240 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
241 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
242 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
244 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
245 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
246 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
247 SMTP commands that take arguments.
249 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
252 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
253 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
255 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
256 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
257 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
258 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
261 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
263 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
264 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
266 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
267 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
268 to what was transported.)
270 TF/01 Added $received_time.
272 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
273 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
274 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
275 spamd_address settings.
277 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
278 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
279 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
280 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
281 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
283 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
285 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
286 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
287 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
288 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
289 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
291 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
292 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
294 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
295 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
296 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
297 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
298 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
299 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
300 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
303 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
304 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
305 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
306 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
307 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
308 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
309 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
312 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
314 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
315 driver and ACL definitions.
317 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
318 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
320 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
321 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
322 understands it better than I do:
324 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
325 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
327 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
328 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
329 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
330 => three warnings about OTP not working
331 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
333 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
334 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
335 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
336 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
338 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
339 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
341 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
342 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
343 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
345 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
346 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
349 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
350 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
353 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
354 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
355 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
357 warn !verify = sender
358 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
360 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
361 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
363 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
365 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
366 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
368 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
369 nomenclature these days.)
371 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
372 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
374 PH/30 In these circumstances:
375 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
376 . First host does not offer TLS;
377 . First host accepts first address;
378 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
379 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
380 . Second host accepts second address.
381 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
382 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
385 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
386 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
387 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
388 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
389 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
391 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
392 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
394 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
395 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
397 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
398 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
399 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
401 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
402 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
405 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
407 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
408 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
409 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
410 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
411 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
412 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
413 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
415 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
416 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
417 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
418 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
419 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
421 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
422 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
425 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
426 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
427 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
428 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
429 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
430 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
432 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
434 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
435 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
436 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
437 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
438 printable escape sequences.
440 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
441 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
444 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
445 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
448 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
449 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
450 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
451 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
452 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
454 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
455 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
456 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
458 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
460 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
461 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
464 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
465 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
466 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
467 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
468 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
469 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
470 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
471 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
472 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
475 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
476 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
477 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
478 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
482 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
483 ----------------------------------------
485 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
486 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
487 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
488 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
489 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
490 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
493 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
494 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
495 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
496 historical information.
502 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
504 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
505 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
507 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
508 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
511 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
512 filter fails to execute.
514 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
515 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
516 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
517 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
518 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
520 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
522 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
523 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
524 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
525 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
527 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
528 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
529 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
530 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
531 control that does not make sense is encountered.
533 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
535 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
537 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
538 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
539 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
540 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
542 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
543 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
546 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
547 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
549 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
551 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
554 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
555 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
557 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
558 the spool by the -Mrm option.
560 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
561 information about exactly what failed.
563 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
565 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
566 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
567 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
569 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
570 It is now set to "smtps".
572 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
575 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
576 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
577 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
578 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
581 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
582 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
583 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
585 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
586 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
587 wake it up if nothing else does.
589 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
590 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
591 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
594 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
595 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
597 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
599 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
600 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
601 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
602 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
603 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
604 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
605 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
606 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
608 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
609 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
612 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
613 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
614 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
615 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
617 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
618 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
619 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
620 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
621 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
624 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
625 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
626 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
627 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
629 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
630 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
633 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
634 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
635 $sender_host_address.
637 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
638 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
639 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
640 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
641 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
644 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
646 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
647 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
649 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
650 just the host names, not the priorities.
652 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
653 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
654 controlled by a keyword.
656 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
657 multiple records are returned.
659 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
660 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
663 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
665 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
666 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
668 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
669 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
670 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
672 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
674 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
676 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
678 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
679 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
680 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
681 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
682 because the tests only now provoked it.
684 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
685 (this can affect the format of dates).
687 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
688 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
689 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
690 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
692 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
694 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
695 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
696 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
697 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
699 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
700 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
701 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
703 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
706 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
707 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
708 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
709 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
710 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
711 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
714 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
715 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
716 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
719 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
720 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
721 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
723 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
724 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
725 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
726 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
727 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
728 so I produce this patch..."
730 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
731 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
734 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
735 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
736 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
737 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
740 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
742 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
743 long debug lines gets shown.
745 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
746 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
748 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
750 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
751 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
752 of $primary_hostname.
754 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
755 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
756 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
757 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
758 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
759 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
760 by change 4.50/55 above.
762 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
763 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
764 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
765 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
766 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
770 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
771 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
772 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
775 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
776 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
778 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
779 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
780 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
781 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
782 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
784 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
787 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
788 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
789 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
790 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
793 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
795 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
796 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
797 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
798 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
800 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
801 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
803 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
804 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
805 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
807 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
808 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
809 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
812 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
813 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
814 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
816 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
817 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
818 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
819 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
821 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
824 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
825 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
827 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
829 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
830 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
831 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
832 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
833 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
836 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
837 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
839 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
840 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
841 for the non-SMTP ACL.
843 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
845 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
846 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
847 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
848 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
849 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
850 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
853 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
854 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
855 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
856 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
857 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
859 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
862 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
864 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
867 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
868 OS variants using glibc.
870 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
873 ----------------------------------------------------
874 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
875 ----------------------------------------------------
881 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
882 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
885 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
886 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
889 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
890 filter fails to execute.
892 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
893 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
894 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
895 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
896 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
898 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
899 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
900 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
901 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
903 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
904 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
905 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
906 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
907 control that does not make sense is encountered.
909 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
911 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
912 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
913 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
914 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
916 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
917 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
920 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
921 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
923 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
924 the spool by the -Mrm option.
926 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
929 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
930 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
931 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
932 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
935 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
936 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
937 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
939 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
940 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
941 wake it up if nothing else does.
943 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
944 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
945 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
948 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
949 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
951 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
953 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
954 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
957 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
958 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
961 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
962 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
963 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
964 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
965 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
968 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
969 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
972 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
973 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
974 $sender_host_address.
976 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
978 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
979 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
980 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
982 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
985 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
986 (this can affect the format of dates).
988 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
989 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
990 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
991 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
993 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
994 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
995 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
997 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
998 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
999 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1000 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1002 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1003 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1004 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1006 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1009 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1010 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1011 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1012 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1013 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1014 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1017 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1018 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1019 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1020 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1023 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1024 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1025 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1026 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1027 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1028 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1029 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1031 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1032 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1033 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1034 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1035 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1036 running as the user.
1039 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1040 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1041 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1044 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1045 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1046 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1047 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1048 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1050 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1051 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1052 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1053 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1056 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1057 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1058 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1059 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1060 because the tests only now provoked it.
1066 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1067 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1068 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1069 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1070 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1071 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1072 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1074 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1075 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1078 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1080 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1082 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1083 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1086 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1087 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1088 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1089 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1090 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1092 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1093 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1095 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1097 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1099 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1102 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1103 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1105 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1106 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1107 affecting debugging statements).
1109 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1111 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1112 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1113 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1114 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1115 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1116 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1117 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1118 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1119 after the received time, and all would be well.
1121 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1122 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1123 condition in an expansion string.
1125 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1127 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1128 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1129 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1130 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1131 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1132 job under whatever limits there are.
1134 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1136 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1139 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1140 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1141 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1142 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1145 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1146 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1147 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1148 binary data in such strings.
1150 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1152 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1153 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1154 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1155 failure, which is pointless.
1157 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1159 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1161 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1162 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1163 Sender: header lines.
1165 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1166 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1167 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1169 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1170 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1171 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1172 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1173 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1176 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1177 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1178 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1179 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1180 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1182 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1183 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1184 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1187 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1188 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1190 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1191 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1193 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1195 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1197 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1199 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1202 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1204 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1206 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1207 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1208 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1209 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1211 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1212 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1218 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1219 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1220 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1222 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1223 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1224 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1225 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1226 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1227 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1229 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1230 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1231 verification failure".
1233 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1234 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1235 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1236 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1238 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1239 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1240 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1241 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1242 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1243 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1244 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1245 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1246 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1247 treated as a timeout.
1249 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1250 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1251 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1252 not set for Exim filters).
1254 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1255 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1256 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1258 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1260 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1261 try to make them clearer.
1263 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1264 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1266 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1268 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1270 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1271 only the Cygwin environment.
1273 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1274 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1275 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1276 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1277 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1279 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1280 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1281 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1282 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1283 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1284 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1285 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1287 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1288 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1290 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1292 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1293 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1294 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1296 To: susanne@some.where
1298 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1299 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1300 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1301 of addresses in From: header lines).
1303 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1304 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1305 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1307 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1308 treated as non-personal.
1310 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1311 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1313 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1315 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1317 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1318 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1319 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1321 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1322 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1324 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1325 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1326 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1327 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1328 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1329 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1331 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1332 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1333 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1334 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1335 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1336 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1337 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1338 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1340 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1342 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1343 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1345 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1346 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1347 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1349 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1350 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1352 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1353 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1354 rather than long int.
1356 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1358 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1364 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1365 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1366 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1367 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1368 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1369 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1375 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1376 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1378 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1379 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1380 socklen_t is defined.
1382 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1385 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1388 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1389 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1390 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1391 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1392 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1394 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1395 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1396 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1397 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1399 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1400 of flapping under certain conditions.
1402 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1403 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1404 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1406 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1408 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1410 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1411 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1412 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1413 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1415 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1416 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1417 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1418 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1419 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1420 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1421 preserved with the message after it was received.
1423 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1424 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1425 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1426 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1427 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1428 test suite worked just fine.
1430 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1431 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1432 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1434 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1435 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1438 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1439 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1440 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1441 does not fully solve it.
1443 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1444 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1445 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1446 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1447 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1449 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1450 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1451 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1453 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1454 string, for example:
1456 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1458 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1459 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1460 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1461 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1462 the routers could not see them.
1464 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1465 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1467 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1468 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1471 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1472 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1473 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1474 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1475 that needed quoting.
1477 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1478 was not being matched caselessly.
1480 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1483 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1484 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1485 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1486 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1487 when use_sender is false.
1489 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1491 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1493 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1495 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1496 the configuration file.
1498 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1499 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1501 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1503 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1504 bytes in the message body.
1506 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1507 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1510 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1512 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1514 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1515 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1516 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1517 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1524 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1525 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1527 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1528 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1529 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1530 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1531 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1533 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1534 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1536 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1537 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1538 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1540 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1541 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1542 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1544 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1547 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1548 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1549 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1550 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1551 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1552 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1553 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1559 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1560 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1561 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1562 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1563 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1564 default (and expected) setting.
1566 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1567 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1568 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1569 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1571 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1572 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1574 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1577 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1578 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1579 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1580 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1581 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1582 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1584 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1585 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1586 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1588 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1589 part (NOT match_host).
1591 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1593 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1594 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1595 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1596 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1597 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1598 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1599 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1600 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1601 the same named file.
1603 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1604 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1607 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1608 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1609 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1610 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1613 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1614 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1615 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1617 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1619 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1621 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1623 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1624 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1626 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1627 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1628 before starting the TLS session.
1630 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1632 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1633 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1635 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1636 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1637 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1638 colon in the middle).
1644 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1645 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1646 multiple configurations are in use.
1648 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1649 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1650 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1651 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1652 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1653 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1655 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1656 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1658 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1659 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1660 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1662 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1663 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1666 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1667 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1669 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1671 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1672 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1674 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1682 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1683 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1684 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1685 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1686 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1688 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1691 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1692 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1693 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1694 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1695 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1696 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1698 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1699 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1700 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1701 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1702 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1703 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1704 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1707 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1708 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1709 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1710 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1711 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1713 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1715 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1716 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1717 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1719 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1721 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1722 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1723 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1726 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1727 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1729 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1730 Three changes have been made:
1732 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1733 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1734 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1735 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1736 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1738 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1741 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1742 the modified behaviour.
1748 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1751 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1752 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1754 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1755 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1756 try to track down a specific problem.
1758 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1759 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1760 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1762 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1765 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1766 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1767 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1768 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1769 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1770 some earlier ones do not.
1772 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1774 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1775 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1776 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1777 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1778 address literals are enabled, of course).
1780 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
1782 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
1783 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
1784 by a command such as
1788 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
1790 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
1792 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
1793 remained set. It is now erased.
1795 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
1796 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
1798 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
1799 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
1800 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
1801 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
1802 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
1803 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
1804 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
1805 appropriate error code.
1807 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
1808 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
1809 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
1810 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
1811 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
1812 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
1814 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
1815 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
1816 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
1818 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
1819 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
1820 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
1821 terminate the header.
1823 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
1824 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
1825 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
1827 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
1828 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
1829 (4.30/29). In particular:
1831 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
1834 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
1835 to write a maildirsize file.
1837 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
1838 the transport, the new value overrides.
1840 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
1843 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
1844 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
1845 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
1848 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
1849 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
1850 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
1853 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
1854 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
1855 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
1857 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
1858 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
1861 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
1862 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
1863 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
1865 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
1867 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
1869 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
1871 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
1872 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
1875 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
1876 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
1877 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
1878 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
1879 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
1880 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
1881 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
1884 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
1885 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
1886 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
1887 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
1888 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
1891 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
1892 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
1893 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
1894 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
1895 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
1896 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
1897 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
1898 cached value only when the same options are set.
1900 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
1902 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
1903 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
1904 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
1905 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
1906 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
1908 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
1909 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
1910 it is clearly obsolete.
1912 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
1915 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
1916 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
1917 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
1920 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
1921 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
1922 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
1923 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
1924 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
1926 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
1927 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
1928 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
1929 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
1931 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
1933 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
1935 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
1936 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
1939 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
1940 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
1941 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
1942 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
1943 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
1944 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
1947 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
1948 with the -f command-line option.
1950 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
1951 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
1952 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
1953 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
1954 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
1955 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1957 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
1958 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
1961 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
1962 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
1963 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
1964 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
1965 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
1966 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
1967 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
1968 buffer is too small.
1970 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
1971 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
1973 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
1974 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
1975 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
1976 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
1977 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
1978 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
1979 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
1980 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
1981 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
1983 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
1984 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
1985 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
1987 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
1988 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
1991 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
1992 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
1993 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
1994 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
1995 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
1997 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
1998 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
1999 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2000 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2003 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2005 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2007 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2008 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2010 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2011 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2012 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2014 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2015 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2016 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2017 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2018 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2020 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2021 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2022 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2023 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2024 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2025 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2026 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2028 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2029 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2030 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2031 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2032 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2033 the test of how many are available.
2035 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2036 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2037 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2038 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2039 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2040 new message is started.
2042 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2043 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2045 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2046 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2048 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2049 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2050 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2053 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2054 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2055 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2056 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2057 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2058 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2059 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2061 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2062 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2063 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2064 interpreted as octal.
2066 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2069 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2070 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2071 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2072 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2073 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2074 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2076 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2077 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2078 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2079 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2081 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2082 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2083 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2084 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2086 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2087 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2090 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2091 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2093 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2095 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2096 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2097 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2098 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2100 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2101 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2102 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2103 supplied", which is not helpful.
2105 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2106 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2107 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2109 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2110 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2111 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2112 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2113 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2114 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2115 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2116 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2118 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2119 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2120 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2121 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2122 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2124 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2125 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2126 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2127 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2128 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2129 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2131 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2132 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2133 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2135 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2137 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2138 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2139 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2142 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2144 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2145 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2146 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2147 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2148 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2149 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2150 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2151 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2153 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2154 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2155 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2156 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2157 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2159 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2162 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2163 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2164 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2165 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2166 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2167 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2168 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2169 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2170 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2176 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2177 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2178 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2180 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2183 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2184 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2185 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2187 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2188 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2189 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2190 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2191 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2192 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2194 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2195 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2196 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2197 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2198 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2199 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2200 the Exim test suite.
2202 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2203 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2204 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2205 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2207 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2208 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2209 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2210 specify it in this variable.
2212 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2213 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2214 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2215 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2217 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2218 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2219 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2220 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2222 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2223 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2224 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2225 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2226 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2228 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2230 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2233 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2234 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2235 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2236 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2237 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2239 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2240 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2242 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2243 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2244 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2245 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2246 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2248 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2249 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2251 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2252 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2253 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2255 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2256 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2258 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2259 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2261 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2262 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2263 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2265 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2266 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2268 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2269 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2270 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2271 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2273 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2275 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2276 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2277 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2278 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2280 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2282 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2283 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2285 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2287 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2288 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2289 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2290 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2291 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2292 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2294 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2296 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2297 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2300 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2302 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2303 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2305 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2306 550 Sender verify failed
2308 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2309 the final line of the response.
2311 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2312 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2313 all other user lookups.
2315 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2318 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2319 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2320 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2321 result into an int without checking.
2323 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2324 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2325 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2327 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2328 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2329 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2330 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2332 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2335 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2336 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2338 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2339 to the empty sender.
2341 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2342 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2343 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2344 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2345 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2346 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2347 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2350 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2351 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2352 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2353 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2356 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2357 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2359 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2362 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2363 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2365 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2367 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2368 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2371 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2372 as soon as it is encountered.
2374 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2376 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2379 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2380 recognizes a tab character.
2382 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2383 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2384 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2385 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2387 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2389 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2392 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2394 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2396 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2397 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2400 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2401 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2402 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2403 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2404 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2406 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2407 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2409 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2410 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2411 list (.included file names were always shown).
2413 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2414 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2415 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2418 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2419 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2421 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2423 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2425 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2427 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2428 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2429 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2430 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2431 failures to open the logs.
2433 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2434 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2435 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2436 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2437 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2438 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2439 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2445 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2446 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2447 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2450 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2451 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2452 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2454 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2455 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2456 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2458 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2459 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2460 causing some misleading effects.
2462 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2463 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2464 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2466 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2467 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2468 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2469 queue-runner function directly.
2475 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2478 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2479 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2480 was always written to the default place.
2482 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2483 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2484 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2486 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2488 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2490 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2491 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2492 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2494 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2495 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2498 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2499 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2500 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2502 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2503 command line option is disabled.
2505 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2506 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2508 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2510 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2512 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2513 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2515 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2517 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2518 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2519 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2520 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2521 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2522 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2524 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2525 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2528 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2529 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2531 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2532 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2534 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2535 received was valid base64.
2537 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2538 name of the variable that was being set.
2540 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2542 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2543 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2544 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2545 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2546 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2547 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2549 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2551 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2552 nor realm was specified.
2554 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2555 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2556 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2557 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2559 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2560 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2561 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2563 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2564 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2565 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2567 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2568 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2569 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2570 some systems use these upper case variants.
2572 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2573 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2574 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2575 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2577 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2579 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2580 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2582 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2583 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2586 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2588 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2589 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2590 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2591 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2593 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2596 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2597 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2598 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2600 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2601 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2603 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2604 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2605 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2606 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2608 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2609 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2610 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2612 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2614 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2615 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2616 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2617 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2620 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2621 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2622 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2624 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2626 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2627 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2629 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2630 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2632 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2633 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2634 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2635 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2636 when emails are that large.
2643 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2644 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2646 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2647 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2648 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2650 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2651 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2652 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2654 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2655 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2656 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2657 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2658 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2660 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2661 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2662 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2663 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2664 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2667 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2668 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2669 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2670 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2671 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2672 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2673 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2674 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2675 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2676 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2677 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2678 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2679 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2680 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2682 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2683 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2686 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2687 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2688 error should be diagnosed.
2690 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2691 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2692 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2693 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2694 appeared instead of "NULL".
2696 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2697 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2698 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2699 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2700 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2701 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2704 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2705 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2706 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2712 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2713 or receiver verification errors.
2715 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2718 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2719 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2720 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2721 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2723 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2724 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2725 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2726 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2727 shouldn't happen again.
2729 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2730 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2731 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2733 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2734 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2736 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2738 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2739 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2741 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2742 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2745 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2746 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2747 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2749 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2750 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2751 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2752 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2754 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2755 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2756 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2757 to define what should happen).
2759 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2760 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2761 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2763 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2765 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2767 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2768 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2770 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2771 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2772 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2773 structure in all cases.
2775 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2776 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2777 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2778 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2780 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
2781 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
2784 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
2785 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
2787 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
2788 MD5 (which is deprecated).
2790 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
2791 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
2792 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
2794 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
2795 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
2796 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
2798 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
2799 the book and for uniformity.
2801 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
2803 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2804 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
2805 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
2806 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
2807 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
2808 non-existent command as the problem.
2810 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
2811 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
2812 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
2814 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
2816 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
2817 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
2818 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
2820 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
2821 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
2822 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
2823 timestamps using strftime().
2825 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
2826 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
2828 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
2829 transport-time rewrites.
2831 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
2832 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
2833 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
2834 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
2836 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
2837 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
2839 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
2840 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
2841 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
2842 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
2845 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
2846 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
2847 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
2848 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
2849 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
2850 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
2851 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
2853 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
2854 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
2855 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
2856 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
2857 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
2859 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
2860 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
2861 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
2862 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
2863 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
2864 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
2865 remaining text gets split now.
2867 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
2868 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
2869 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
2870 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
2872 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
2873 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
2874 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
2875 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
2878 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
2879 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
2880 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
2881 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
2882 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
2883 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
2884 passed through if needed.
2886 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
2887 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
2888 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
2889 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
2890 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
2891 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
2893 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
2894 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
2895 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
2896 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
2897 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
2899 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
2900 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
2901 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
2902 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
2903 incorrect size information for certain domains.
2905 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
2906 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
2909 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
2910 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
2911 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
2912 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
2913 mayhem of various kinds.
2915 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
2916 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
2917 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
2918 the right test for positive values.
2920 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
2921 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
2922 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
2923 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
2924 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
2925 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
2926 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
2927 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
2928 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
2929 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
2932 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
2935 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
2936 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
2939 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
2940 the existing equality matching.
2942 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
2943 dealing with inode numbers.
2945 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
2946 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
2947 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
2949 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
2950 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
2951 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
2952 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
2955 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
2956 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
2957 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
2958 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
2959 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
2960 relay addresses has also been removed.
2962 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
2964 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
2965 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
2966 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
2968 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
2969 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
2970 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
2971 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
2972 processing applies to CR:
2974 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
2975 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
2977 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
2978 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
2979 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
2980 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
2982 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
2983 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
2984 This is a VOB (very old bug).
2986 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
2987 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
2988 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
2989 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
2990 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
2991 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
2994 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
2997 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
2998 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
2999 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3000 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3003 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3005 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3007 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3009 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3010 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3011 not considered personal.
3013 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3015 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3017 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3019 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3020 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3021 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3022 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3023 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3024 header lines, and spool format errors.
3026 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3027 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3028 for more flexibility.
3030 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3031 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3032 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3034 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3037 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3038 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3039 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3040 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3041 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3042 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3043 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3044 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3045 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3047 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3048 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3049 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3050 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3051 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3052 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3053 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3055 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3056 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3057 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3059 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3060 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3061 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3062 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3063 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3064 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3065 instead of killing the process with assert().
3067 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3068 than Unicode encoding.
3070 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3071 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3072 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3073 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3075 77. Added process_log_path.
3077 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3078 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3080 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3081 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3083 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3084 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3085 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3087 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3088 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3089 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3090 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3091 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3094 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3095 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3098 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3099 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3100 they will be used during message reception.
3106 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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