1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.215 2005/09/01 08:40:54 tom Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
10 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
12 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
14 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
16 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
17 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
18 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
20 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
21 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
22 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
24 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
25 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
28 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
29 ${stat: expansion item.
31 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
32 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
34 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
35 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
38 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
40 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
43 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
44 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
46 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
48 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
49 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
50 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
51 the end of the subprocess.
53 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
54 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
55 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
56 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
57 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
59 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
61 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
63 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
64 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
66 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
68 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
70 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
71 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
74 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
76 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
77 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
78 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
80 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
81 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
83 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
84 host errors such as "Connection refused".
86 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
87 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
89 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
90 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
92 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
93 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
94 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
95 contributed by a Radius user.
97 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
98 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
100 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
101 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
103 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
106 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
107 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
110 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
111 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
112 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
113 header lines when this was not necessary.
115 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
117 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
118 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
119 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
122 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
125 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
126 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
127 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed.
129 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
131 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
133 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
139 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
141 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
142 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
143 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
144 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
146 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
148 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
149 can still be requested.
151 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
152 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
153 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
154 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
156 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
157 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
158 circumstances, but probably never did.
160 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
161 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
162 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
165 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
167 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
168 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
170 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
172 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
174 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
175 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
176 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
177 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
178 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
179 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
181 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
182 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
183 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
184 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
185 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
186 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
188 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
189 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
191 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
192 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
194 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
195 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
197 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
199 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
201 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
203 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
205 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
207 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
209 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
211 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
212 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
213 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
215 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
216 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
217 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
218 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
220 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
221 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
222 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
224 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
225 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
226 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
227 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
229 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
230 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
233 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
234 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
235 should work with maildirs and everything.
237 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
238 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
240 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
243 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
244 function for BDB 4.3.
246 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
248 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
249 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
252 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
253 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
254 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
255 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
256 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
257 formatting function string_vformat().
259 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
260 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
261 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
262 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
263 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
264 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
265 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
266 falls back to the previous guessing code."
268 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
269 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
272 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
273 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
275 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
276 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
277 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
278 test. It is now used for both.
280 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
281 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
282 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
283 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
284 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
285 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
287 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
288 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
289 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
292 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
293 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
294 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
296 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
297 experimental DomainKeys support:
299 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
300 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
301 the control was given.
303 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
305 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
307 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
309 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
310 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
311 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
314 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
315 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
316 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
317 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
318 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
319 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
322 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
323 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
324 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
325 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
326 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
327 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
329 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
330 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
331 do -d+all out of habit.
333 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
334 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
337 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
338 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
339 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
340 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
341 record types that Exim uses.
343 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
344 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
345 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
346 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
347 non-existent file that was broken.
349 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
350 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
352 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
353 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
354 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
356 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
358 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
359 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
360 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
361 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
362 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
365 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
366 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
367 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
368 at a slight CPU cost.
370 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
371 as requested by Marc Sherman.
373 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
376 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
378 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
379 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
385 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
386 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
388 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
390 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
392 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
393 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
395 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
396 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
397 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
398 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
399 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
400 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
403 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
404 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
405 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
406 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
409 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
410 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
411 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
412 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
413 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
414 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
415 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
418 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
419 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
421 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
422 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
423 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
424 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
425 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
426 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
428 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
429 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
430 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
431 SMTP commands that take arguments.
433 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
436 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
437 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
439 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
440 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
441 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
442 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
445 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
447 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
448 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
450 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
451 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
452 to what was transported.)
454 TF/01 Added $received_time.
456 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
457 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
458 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
459 spamd_address settings.
461 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
462 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
463 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
464 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
465 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
467 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
469 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
470 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
471 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
472 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
473 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
475 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
476 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
478 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
479 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
480 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
481 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
482 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
483 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
484 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
487 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
488 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
489 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
490 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
491 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
492 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
493 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
496 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
498 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
499 driver and ACL definitions.
501 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
502 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
504 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
505 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
506 understands it better than I do:
508 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
509 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
511 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
512 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
513 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
514 => three warnings about OTP not working
515 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
517 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
518 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
519 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
520 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
522 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
523 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
525 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
526 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
527 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
529 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
530 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
533 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
534 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
537 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
538 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
539 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
541 warn !verify = sender
542 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
544 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
545 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
547 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
549 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
550 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
552 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
553 nomenclature these days.)
555 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
556 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
558 PH/30 In these circumstances:
559 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
560 . First host does not offer TLS;
561 . First host accepts first address;
562 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
563 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
564 . Second host accepts second address.
565 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
566 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
569 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
570 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
571 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
572 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
573 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
575 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
576 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
578 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
579 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
581 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
582 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
583 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
585 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
586 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
589 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
591 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
592 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
593 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
594 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
595 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
596 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
597 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
599 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
600 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
601 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
602 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
603 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
605 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
606 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
609 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
610 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
611 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
612 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
613 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
614 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
616 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
618 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
619 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
620 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
621 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
622 printable escape sequences.
624 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
625 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
628 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
629 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
632 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
633 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
634 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
635 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
636 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
638 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
639 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
640 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
642 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
644 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
645 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
648 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
649 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
650 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
651 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
652 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
653 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
654 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
655 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
656 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
659 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
660 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
661 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
662 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
666 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
667 ----------------------------------------
669 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
670 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
671 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
672 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
673 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
674 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
677 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
678 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
679 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
680 historical information.
686 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
688 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
689 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
691 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
692 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
695 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
696 filter fails to execute.
698 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
699 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
700 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
701 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
702 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
704 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
706 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
707 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
708 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
709 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
711 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
712 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
713 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
714 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
715 control that does not make sense is encountered.
717 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
719 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
721 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
722 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
723 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
724 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
726 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
727 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
730 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
731 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
733 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
735 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
738 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
739 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
741 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
742 the spool by the -Mrm option.
744 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
745 information about exactly what failed.
747 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
749 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
750 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
751 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
753 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
754 It is now set to "smtps".
756 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
759 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
760 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
761 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
762 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
765 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
766 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
767 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
769 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
770 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
771 wake it up if nothing else does.
773 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
774 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
775 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
778 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
779 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
781 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
783 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
784 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
785 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
786 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
787 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
788 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
789 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
790 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
792 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
793 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
796 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
797 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
798 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
799 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
801 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
802 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
803 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
804 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
805 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
808 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
809 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
810 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
811 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
813 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
814 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
817 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
818 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
819 $sender_host_address.
821 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
822 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
823 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
824 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
825 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
828 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
830 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
831 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
833 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
834 just the host names, not the priorities.
836 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
837 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
838 controlled by a keyword.
840 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
841 multiple records are returned.
843 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
844 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
847 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
849 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
850 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
852 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
853 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
854 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
856 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
858 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
860 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
862 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
863 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
864 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
865 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
866 because the tests only now provoked it.
868 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
869 (this can affect the format of dates).
871 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
872 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
873 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
874 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
876 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
878 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
879 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
880 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
881 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
883 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
884 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
885 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
887 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
890 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
891 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
892 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
893 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
894 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
895 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
898 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
899 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
900 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
903 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
904 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
905 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
907 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
908 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
909 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
910 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
911 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
912 so I produce this patch..."
914 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
915 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
918 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
919 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
920 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
921 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
924 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
926 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
927 long debug lines gets shown.
929 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
930 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
932 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
934 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
935 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
936 of $primary_hostname.
938 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
939 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
940 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
941 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
942 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
943 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
944 by change 4.50/55 above.
946 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
947 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
948 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
949 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
950 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
954 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
955 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
956 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
959 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
960 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
962 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
963 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
964 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
965 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
966 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
968 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
971 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
972 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
973 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
974 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
977 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
979 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
980 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
981 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
982 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
984 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
985 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
987 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
988 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
989 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
991 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
992 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
993 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
996 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
997 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
998 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
1000 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
1001 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1002 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1003 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1005 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1006 during host lookups.
1008 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1009 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1011 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1013 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1014 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1015 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1016 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1017 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1020 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1021 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1023 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1024 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1025 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1027 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1029 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1030 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1031 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1032 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1033 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1034 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1037 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1038 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1039 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1040 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1041 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1043 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1046 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1048 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1049 "vacation" handling.
1051 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1052 OS variants using glibc.
1054 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1057 ----------------------------------------------------
1058 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1059 ----------------------------------------------------
1065 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1066 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1069 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1070 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1073 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1074 filter fails to execute.
1076 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1077 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1078 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1079 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1080 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1082 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1083 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1084 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1085 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1087 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1088 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1089 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1090 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1091 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1093 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1095 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1096 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1097 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1098 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1100 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1101 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1102 sender verification.
1104 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1105 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1107 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1108 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1110 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1111 ignore_target_hosts.
1113 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1114 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1115 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1116 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1119 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1120 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1121 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1123 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1124 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1125 wake it up if nothing else does.
1127 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1128 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1129 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1132 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1133 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1135 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
1137 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1138 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1141 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1142 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1145 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1146 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1147 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1148 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1149 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1152 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1153 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1156 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1157 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1158 $sender_host_address.
1160 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1162 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1163 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1164 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1166 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
1169 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1170 (this can affect the format of dates).
1172 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1173 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1174 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1175 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1177 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1178 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1179 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1181 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1182 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1183 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1184 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1186 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1187 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1188 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1190 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1193 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1194 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1195 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1196 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1197 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1198 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1201 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1202 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1203 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1204 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1207 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1208 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1209 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1210 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1211 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1212 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1213 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1215 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1216 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1217 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1218 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1219 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1220 running as the user.
1223 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1224 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1225 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1228 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1229 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1230 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1231 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1232 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1234 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1235 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1236 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1237 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1240 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1241 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1242 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1243 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1244 because the tests only now provoked it.
1250 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1251 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1252 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1253 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1254 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1255 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1256 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1258 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1259 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1262 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1264 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1266 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1267 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1270 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1271 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1272 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1273 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1274 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1276 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1277 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1279 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1281 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1283 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1286 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1287 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1289 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1290 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1291 affecting debugging statements).
1293 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1295 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1296 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1297 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1298 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1299 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1300 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1301 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1302 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1303 after the received time, and all would be well.
1305 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1306 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1307 condition in an expansion string.
1309 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1311 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1312 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1313 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1314 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1315 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1316 job under whatever limits there are.
1318 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1320 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1323 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1324 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1325 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1326 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1329 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1330 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1331 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1332 binary data in such strings.
1334 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1336 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1337 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1338 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1339 failure, which is pointless.
1341 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1343 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1345 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1346 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1347 Sender: header lines.
1349 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1350 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1351 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1353 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1354 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1355 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1356 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1357 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1360 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1361 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1362 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1363 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1364 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1366 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1367 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1368 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1371 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1372 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1374 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1375 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1377 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1379 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1381 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1383 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1386 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1388 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1390 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1391 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1392 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1393 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1395 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1396 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1402 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1403 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1404 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1406 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1407 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1408 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1409 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1410 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1411 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1413 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1414 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1415 verification failure".
1417 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1418 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1419 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1420 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1422 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1423 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1424 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1425 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1426 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1427 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1428 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1429 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1430 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1431 treated as a timeout.
1433 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1434 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1435 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1436 not set for Exim filters).
1438 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1439 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1440 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1442 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1444 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1445 try to make them clearer.
1447 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1448 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1450 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1452 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1454 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1455 only the Cygwin environment.
1457 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1458 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1459 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1460 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1461 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1463 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1464 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1465 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1466 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1467 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1468 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1469 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1471 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1472 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1474 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1476 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1477 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1478 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1480 To: susanne@some.where
1482 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1483 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1484 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1485 of addresses in From: header lines).
1487 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1488 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1489 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1491 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1492 treated as non-personal.
1494 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1495 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1497 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1499 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1501 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1502 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1503 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1505 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1506 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1508 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1509 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1510 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1511 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1512 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1513 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1515 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1516 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1517 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1518 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1519 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1520 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1521 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1522 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1524 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1526 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1527 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1529 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1530 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1531 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1533 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1534 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1536 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1537 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1538 rather than long int.
1540 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1542 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1548 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1549 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1550 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1551 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1552 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1553 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1559 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1560 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1562 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1563 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1564 socklen_t is defined.
1566 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1569 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1572 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1573 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1574 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1575 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1576 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1578 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1579 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1580 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1581 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1583 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1584 of flapping under certain conditions.
1586 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1587 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1588 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1590 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1592 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1594 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1595 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1596 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1597 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1599 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1600 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1601 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1602 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1603 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1604 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1605 preserved with the message after it was received.
1607 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1608 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1609 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1610 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1611 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1612 test suite worked just fine.
1614 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1615 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1616 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1618 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1619 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1622 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1623 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1624 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1625 does not fully solve it.
1627 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1628 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1629 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1630 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1631 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1633 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1634 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1635 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1637 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1638 string, for example:
1640 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1642 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1643 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1644 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1645 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1646 the routers could not see them.
1648 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1649 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1651 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1652 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1655 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1656 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1657 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1658 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1659 that needed quoting.
1661 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1662 was not being matched caselessly.
1664 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1667 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1668 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1669 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1670 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1671 when use_sender is false.
1673 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1675 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1677 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1679 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1680 the configuration file.
1682 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1683 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1685 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1687 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1688 bytes in the message body.
1690 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1691 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1694 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1696 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1698 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1699 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1700 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1701 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1708 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1709 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1711 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1712 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1713 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1714 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1715 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1717 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1718 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1720 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1721 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1722 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1724 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1725 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1726 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1728 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1731 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1732 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1733 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1734 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1735 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1736 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1737 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1743 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1744 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1745 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1746 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1747 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1748 default (and expected) setting.
1750 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1751 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1752 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1753 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1755 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1756 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1758 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1761 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1762 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1763 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1764 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1765 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1766 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1768 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1769 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1770 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1772 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1773 part (NOT match_host).
1775 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1777 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1778 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1779 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1780 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1781 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1782 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1783 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1784 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1785 the same named file.
1787 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1788 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1791 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1792 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1793 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1794 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1797 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1798 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1799 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1801 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1803 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1805 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1807 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1808 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1810 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1811 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1812 before starting the TLS session.
1814 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1816 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1817 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1819 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1820 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1821 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1822 colon in the middle).
1828 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1829 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1830 multiple configurations are in use.
1832 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1833 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1834 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1835 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1836 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1837 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1839 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1840 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1842 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1843 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1844 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1846 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1847 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1850 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1851 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1853 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1855 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1856 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1858 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1866 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1867 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1868 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1869 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1870 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1872 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1875 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1876 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1877 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1878 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1879 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1880 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1882 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1883 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1884 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1885 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1886 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1887 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1888 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1891 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1892 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1893 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1894 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1895 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1897 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1899 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1900 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1901 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1903 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1905 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1906 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1907 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1910 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1911 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1913 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1914 Three changes have been made:
1916 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1917 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1918 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1919 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1920 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1922 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1925 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1926 the modified behaviour.
1932 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1935 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1936 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1938 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1939 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1940 try to track down a specific problem.
1942 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1943 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1944 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1946 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1949 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1950 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1951 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1952 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1953 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1954 some earlier ones do not.
1956 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1958 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1959 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1960 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1961 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1962 address literals are enabled, of course).
1964 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
1966 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
1967 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
1968 by a command such as
1972 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
1974 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
1976 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
1977 remained set. It is now erased.
1979 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
1980 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
1982 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
1983 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
1984 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
1985 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
1986 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
1987 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
1988 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
1989 appropriate error code.
1991 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
1992 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
1993 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
1994 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
1995 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
1996 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
1998 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
1999 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
2000 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2002 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2003 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2004 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2005 terminate the header.
2007 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2008 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2009 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2011 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2012 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2013 (4.30/29). In particular:
2015 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2018 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2019 to write a maildirsize file.
2021 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2022 the transport, the new value overrides.
2024 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2027 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2028 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2029 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2032 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2033 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2034 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2037 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2038 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2039 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2041 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2042 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2045 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2046 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2047 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2049 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2051 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2053 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2055 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2056 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2059 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2060 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2061 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2062 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2063 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2064 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2065 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2068 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2069 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2070 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2071 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2072 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2075 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2076 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2077 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2078 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2079 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2080 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2081 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2082 cached value only when the same options are set.
2084 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2086 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2087 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2088 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2089 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2090 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2092 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2093 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2094 it is clearly obsolete.
2096 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2099 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2100 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2101 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2104 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2105 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2106 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2107 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2108 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2110 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2111 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2112 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2113 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2115 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2117 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2119 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2120 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2123 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2124 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2125 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2126 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2127 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2128 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2131 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2132 with the -f command-line option.
2134 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2135 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2136 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2137 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2138 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2139 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2141 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2142 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2145 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2146 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2147 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2148 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2149 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2150 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2151 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2152 buffer is too small.
2154 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2155 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2157 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2158 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2159 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2160 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2161 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2162 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2163 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2164 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2165 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2167 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2168 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2169 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2171 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2172 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2175 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2176 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2177 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2178 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2179 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2181 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2182 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2183 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2184 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2187 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2189 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2191 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2192 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2194 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2195 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2196 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2198 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2199 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2200 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2201 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2202 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2204 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2205 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2206 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2207 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2208 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2209 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2210 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2212 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2213 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2214 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2215 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2216 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2217 the test of how many are available.
2219 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2220 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2221 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2222 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2223 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2224 new message is started.
2226 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2227 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2229 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2230 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2232 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2233 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2234 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2237 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2238 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2239 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2240 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2241 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2242 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2243 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2245 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2246 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2247 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2248 interpreted as octal.
2250 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2253 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2254 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2255 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2256 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2257 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2258 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2260 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2261 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2262 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2263 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2265 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2266 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2267 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2268 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2270 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2271 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2274 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2275 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2277 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2279 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2280 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2281 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2282 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2284 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2285 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2286 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2287 supplied", which is not helpful.
2289 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2290 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2291 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2293 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2294 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2295 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2296 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2297 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2298 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2299 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2300 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2302 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2303 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2304 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2305 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2306 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2308 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2309 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2310 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2311 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2312 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2313 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2315 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2316 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2317 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2319 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2321 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2322 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2323 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2326 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2328 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2329 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2330 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2331 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2332 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2333 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2334 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2335 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2337 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2338 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2339 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2340 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2341 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2343 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2346 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2347 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2348 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2349 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2350 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2351 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2352 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2353 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2354 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2360 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2361 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2362 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2364 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2367 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2368 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2369 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2371 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2372 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2373 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2374 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2375 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2376 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2378 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2379 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2380 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2381 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2382 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2383 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2384 the Exim test suite.
2386 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2387 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2388 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2389 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2391 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2392 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2393 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2394 specify it in this variable.
2396 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2397 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2398 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2399 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2401 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2402 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2403 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2404 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2406 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2407 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2408 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2409 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2410 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2412 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2414 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2417 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2418 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2419 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2420 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2421 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2423 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2424 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2426 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2427 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2428 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2429 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2430 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2432 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2433 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2435 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2436 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2437 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2439 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2440 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2442 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2443 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2445 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2446 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2447 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2449 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2450 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2452 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2453 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2454 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2455 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2457 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2459 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2460 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2461 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2462 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2464 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2466 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2467 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2469 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2471 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2472 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2473 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2474 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2475 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2476 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2478 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2480 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2481 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2484 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2486 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2487 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2489 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2490 550 Sender verify failed
2492 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2493 the final line of the response.
2495 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2496 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2497 all other user lookups.
2499 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2502 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2503 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2504 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2505 result into an int without checking.
2507 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2508 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2509 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2511 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2512 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2513 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2514 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2516 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2519 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2520 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2522 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2523 to the empty sender.
2525 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2526 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2527 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2528 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2529 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2530 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2531 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2534 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2535 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2536 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2537 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2540 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2541 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2543 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2546 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2547 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2549 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2551 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2552 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2555 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2556 as soon as it is encountered.
2558 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2560 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2563 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2564 recognizes a tab character.
2566 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2567 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2568 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2569 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2571 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2573 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2576 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2578 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2580 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2581 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2584 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2585 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2586 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2587 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2588 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2590 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2591 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2593 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2594 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2595 list (.included file names were always shown).
2597 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2598 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2599 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2602 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2603 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2605 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2607 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2609 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2611 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2612 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2613 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2614 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2615 failures to open the logs.
2617 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2618 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2619 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2620 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2621 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2622 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2623 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2629 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2630 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2631 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2634 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2635 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2636 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2638 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2639 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2640 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2642 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2643 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2644 causing some misleading effects.
2646 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2647 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2648 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2650 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2651 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2652 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2653 queue-runner function directly.
2659 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2662 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2663 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2664 was always written to the default place.
2666 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2667 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2668 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2670 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2672 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2674 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2675 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2676 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2678 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2679 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2682 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2683 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2684 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2686 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2687 command line option is disabled.
2689 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2690 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2692 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2694 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2696 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2697 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2699 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2701 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2702 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2703 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2704 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2705 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2706 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2708 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2709 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2712 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2713 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2715 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2716 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2718 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2719 received was valid base64.
2721 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2722 name of the variable that was being set.
2724 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2726 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2727 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2728 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2729 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2730 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2731 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2733 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2735 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2736 nor realm was specified.
2738 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2739 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2740 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2741 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2743 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2744 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2745 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2747 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2748 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2749 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2751 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2752 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2753 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2754 some systems use these upper case variants.
2756 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2757 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2758 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2759 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2761 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2763 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2764 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2766 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2767 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2770 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2772 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2773 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2774 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2775 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2777 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2780 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2781 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2782 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2784 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2785 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2787 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2788 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2789 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2790 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2792 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2793 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2794 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2796 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2798 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2799 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2800 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2801 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2804 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2805 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2806 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2808 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2810 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2811 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2813 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2814 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2816 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2817 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2818 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2819 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2820 when emails are that large.
2827 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2828 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2830 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2831 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2832 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2834 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2835 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2836 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2838 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2839 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2840 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2841 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2842 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2844 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2845 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2846 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2847 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2848 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2851 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2852 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2853 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2854 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2855 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2856 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2857 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2858 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2859 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2860 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2861 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2862 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2863 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2864 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2866 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2867 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2870 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2871 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2872 error should be diagnosed.
2874 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2875 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2876 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2877 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2878 appeared instead of "NULL".
2880 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2881 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2882 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2883 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2884 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2885 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2888 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2889 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2890 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2896 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2897 or receiver verification errors.
2899 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2902 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2903 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2904 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2905 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2907 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2908 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2909 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2910 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2911 shouldn't happen again.
2913 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2914 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2915 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2917 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2918 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2920 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2922 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2923 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2925 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2926 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2929 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2930 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2931 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2933 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2934 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2935 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2936 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2938 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2939 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2940 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2941 to define what should happen).
2943 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2944 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2945 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2947 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2949 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2951 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2952 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2954 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2955 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2956 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2957 structure in all cases.
2959 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2960 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2961 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2962 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2964 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
2965 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
2968 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
2969 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
2971 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
2972 MD5 (which is deprecated).
2974 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
2975 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
2976 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
2978 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
2979 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
2980 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
2982 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
2983 the book and for uniformity.
2985 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
2987 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2988 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
2989 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
2990 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
2991 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
2992 non-existent command as the problem.
2994 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
2995 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
2996 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
2998 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
3000 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
3001 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3002 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3004 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3005 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3006 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3007 timestamps using strftime().
3009 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3010 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3012 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3013 transport-time rewrites.
3015 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3016 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3017 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3018 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3020 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3021 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3023 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3024 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3025 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3026 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3029 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3030 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3031 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3032 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3033 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3034 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3035 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3037 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3038 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3039 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3040 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3041 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3043 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3044 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3045 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3046 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3047 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3048 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3049 remaining text gets split now.
3051 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3052 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3053 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3054 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3056 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3057 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3058 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3059 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3062 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3063 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3064 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3065 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3066 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3067 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3068 passed through if needed.
3070 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3071 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3072 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3073 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3074 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3075 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3077 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3078 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3079 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3080 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3081 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3083 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3084 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3085 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3086 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3087 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3089 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3090 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3093 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3094 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3095 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3096 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3097 mayhem of various kinds.
3099 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3100 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3101 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3102 the right test for positive values.
3104 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3105 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3106 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3107 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3108 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3109 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3110 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3111 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3112 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3113 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3116 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3119 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3120 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3123 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3124 the existing equality matching.
3126 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3127 dealing with inode numbers.
3129 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3130 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3131 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3133 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3134 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3135 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3136 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3139 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3140 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3141 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3142 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3143 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3144 relay addresses has also been removed.
3146 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3148 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3149 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3150 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3152 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3153 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3154 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3155 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3156 processing applies to CR:
3158 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3159 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3161 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3162 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3163 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3164 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3166 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3167 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3168 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3170 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3171 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3172 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3173 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3174 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3175 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3178 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3181 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3182 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3183 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3184 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3187 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3189 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3191 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3193 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3194 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3195 not considered personal.
3197 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3199 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3201 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3203 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3204 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3205 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3206 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3207 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3208 header lines, and spool format errors.
3210 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3211 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3212 for more flexibility.
3214 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3215 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3216 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3218 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3221 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3222 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3223 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3224 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3225 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3226 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3227 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3228 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3229 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3231 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3232 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3233 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3234 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3235 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3236 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3237 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3239 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3240 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3241 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3243 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3244 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3245 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3246 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3247 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3248 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3249 instead of killing the process with assert().
3251 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3252 than Unicode encoding.
3254 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3255 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3256 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3257 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3259 77. Added process_log_path.
3261 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3262 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3264 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3265 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3267 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3268 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3269 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3271 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3272 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3273 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3274 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3275 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3278 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3279 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3282 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3283 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3284 they will be used during message reception.
3290 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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