1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.232 2005/09/15 09:15:26 fanf2 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, and the
128 return code was incorrect.
130 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
132 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
134 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
136 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
138 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
139 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
140 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
141 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
142 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
145 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
147 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
148 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
149 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
150 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
151 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
152 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
153 which is clearly wrong.
155 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
157 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
158 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
159 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
162 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
163 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
165 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
167 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
168 the "build-* directories that it finds.
170 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
171 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
173 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
174 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
176 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
177 recipients, not senders.
179 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
180 the ratelimit ACL was added.
182 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
184 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
186 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
187 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
188 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
189 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
191 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
193 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
194 clock is set back in time.
196 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
197 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
203 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
205 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
206 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
207 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
208 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
210 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
212 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
213 can still be requested.
215 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
216 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
217 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
218 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
220 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
221 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
222 circumstances, but probably never did.
224 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
225 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
226 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
229 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
231 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
232 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
234 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
236 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
238 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
239 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
240 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
241 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
242 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
243 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
245 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
246 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
247 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
248 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
249 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
250 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
252 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
253 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
255 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
256 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
258 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
259 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
261 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
263 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
265 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
267 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
269 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
271 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
273 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
275 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
276 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
277 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
279 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
280 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
281 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
282 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
284 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
285 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
286 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
288 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
289 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
290 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
291 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
293 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
294 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
297 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
298 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
299 should work with maildirs and everything.
301 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
302 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
304 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
307 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
308 function for BDB 4.3.
310 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
312 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
313 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
316 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
317 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
318 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
319 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
320 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
321 formatting function string_vformat().
323 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
324 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
325 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
326 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
327 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
328 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
329 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
330 falls back to the previous guessing code."
332 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
333 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
336 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
337 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
339 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
340 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
341 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
342 test. It is now used for both.
344 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
345 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
346 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
347 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
348 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
349 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
351 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
352 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
353 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
356 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
357 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
358 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
360 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
361 experimental DomainKeys support:
363 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
364 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
365 the control was given.
367 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
369 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
371 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
373 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
374 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
375 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
378 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
379 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
380 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
381 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
382 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
383 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
386 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
387 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
388 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
389 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
390 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
391 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
393 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
394 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
395 do -d+all out of habit.
397 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
398 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
401 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
402 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
403 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
404 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
405 record types that Exim uses.
407 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
408 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
409 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
410 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
411 non-existent file that was broken.
413 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
414 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
416 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
417 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
418 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
420 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
422 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
423 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
424 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
425 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
426 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
429 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
430 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
431 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
432 at a slight CPU cost.
434 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
435 as requested by Marc Sherman.
437 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
440 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
442 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
443 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
449 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
450 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
452 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
454 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
456 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
457 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
459 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
460 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
461 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
462 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
463 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
464 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
467 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
468 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
469 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
470 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
473 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
474 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
475 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
476 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
477 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
478 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
479 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
482 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
483 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
485 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
486 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
487 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
488 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
489 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
490 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
492 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
493 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
494 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
495 SMTP commands that take arguments.
497 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
500 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
501 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
503 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
504 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
505 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
506 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
509 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
511 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
512 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
514 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
515 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
516 to what was transported.)
518 TF/01 Added $received_time.
520 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
521 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
522 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
523 spamd_address settings.
525 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
526 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
527 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
528 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
529 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
531 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
533 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
534 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
535 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
536 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
537 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
539 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
540 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
542 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
543 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
544 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
545 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
546 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
547 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
548 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
551 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
552 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
553 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
554 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
555 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
556 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
557 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
560 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
562 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
563 driver and ACL definitions.
565 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
566 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
568 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
569 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
570 understands it better than I do:
572 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
573 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
575 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
576 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
577 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
578 => three warnings about OTP not working
579 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
581 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
582 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
583 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
584 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
586 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
587 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
589 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
590 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
591 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
593 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
594 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
597 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
598 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
601 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
602 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
603 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
605 warn !verify = sender
606 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
608 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
609 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
611 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
613 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
614 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
616 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
617 nomenclature these days.)
619 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
620 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
622 PH/30 In these circumstances:
623 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
624 . First host does not offer TLS;
625 . First host accepts first address;
626 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
627 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
628 . Second host accepts second address.
629 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
630 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
633 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
634 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
635 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
636 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
637 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
639 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
640 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
642 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
643 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
645 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
646 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
647 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
649 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
650 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
653 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
655 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
656 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
657 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
658 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
659 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
660 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
661 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
663 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
664 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
665 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
666 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
667 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
669 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
670 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
673 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
674 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
675 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
676 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
677 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
678 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
680 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
682 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
683 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
684 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
685 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
686 printable escape sequences.
688 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
689 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
692 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
693 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
696 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
697 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
698 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
699 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
700 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
702 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
703 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
704 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
706 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
708 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
709 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
712 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
713 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
714 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
715 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
716 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
717 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
718 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
719 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
720 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
723 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
724 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
725 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
726 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
730 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
731 ----------------------------------------
733 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
734 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
735 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
736 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
737 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
738 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
741 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
742 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
743 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
744 historical information.
750 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
752 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
753 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
755 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
756 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
759 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
760 filter fails to execute.
762 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
763 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
764 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
765 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
766 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
768 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
770 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
771 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
772 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
773 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
775 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
776 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
777 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
778 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
779 control that does not make sense is encountered.
781 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
783 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
785 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
786 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
787 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
788 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
790 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
791 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
794 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
795 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
797 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
799 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
802 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
803 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
805 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
806 the spool by the -Mrm option.
808 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
809 information about exactly what failed.
811 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
813 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
814 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
815 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
817 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
818 It is now set to "smtps".
820 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
823 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
824 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
825 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
826 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
829 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
830 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
831 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
833 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
834 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
835 wake it up if nothing else does.
837 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
838 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
839 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
842 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
843 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
845 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
847 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
848 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
849 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
850 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
851 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
852 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
853 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
854 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
856 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
857 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
860 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
861 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
862 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
863 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
865 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
866 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
867 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
868 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
869 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
872 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
873 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
874 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
875 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
877 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
878 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
881 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
882 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
883 $sender_host_address.
885 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
886 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
887 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
888 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
889 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
892 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
894 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
895 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
897 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
898 just the host names, not the priorities.
900 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
901 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
902 controlled by a keyword.
904 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
905 multiple records are returned.
907 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
908 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
911 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
913 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
914 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
916 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
917 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
918 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
920 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
922 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
924 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
926 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
927 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
928 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
929 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
930 because the tests only now provoked it.
932 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
933 (this can affect the format of dates).
935 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
936 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
937 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
938 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
940 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
942 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
943 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
944 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
945 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
947 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
948 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
949 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
951 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
954 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
955 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
956 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
957 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
958 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
959 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
962 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
963 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
964 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
967 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
968 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
969 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
971 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
972 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
973 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
974 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
975 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
976 so I produce this patch..."
978 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
979 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
982 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
983 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
984 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
985 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
988 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
990 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
991 long debug lines gets shown.
993 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
994 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
996 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
998 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
999 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
1000 of $primary_hostname.
1002 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1003 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1004 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1005 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1006 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1007 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1008 by change 4.50/55 above.
1010 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1011 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1012 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1013 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1014 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1015 running as the user.
1018 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1019 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1020 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1023 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
1024 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
1026 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1027 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1028 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1029 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1030 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1032 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
1033 This has been fixed.
1035 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1036 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1037 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1038 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1041 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
1043 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
1044 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
1045 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
1046 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
1048 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
1049 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
1051 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
1052 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
1053 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
1055 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
1056 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
1057 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
1060 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
1061 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
1062 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
1064 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
1065 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1066 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1067 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1069 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1070 during host lookups.
1072 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1073 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1075 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1077 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1078 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1079 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1080 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1081 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1084 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1085 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1087 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1088 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1089 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1091 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1093 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1094 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1095 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1096 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1097 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1098 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1101 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1102 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1103 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1104 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1105 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1107 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1110 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1112 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1113 "vacation" handling.
1115 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1116 OS variants using glibc.
1118 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1121 ----------------------------------------------------
1122 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1123 ----------------------------------------------------
1129 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1130 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1133 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1134 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1137 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1138 filter fails to execute.
1140 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1141 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1142 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1143 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1144 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1146 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1147 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1148 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1149 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1151 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1152 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1153 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1154 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1155 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1157 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1159 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1160 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1161 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1162 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1164 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1165 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1166 sender verification.
1168 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1169 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1171 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1172 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1174 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1175 ignore_target_hosts.
1177 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1178 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1179 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1180 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1183 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1184 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1185 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1187 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1188 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1189 wake it up if nothing else does.
1191 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1192 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1193 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1196 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1197 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1199 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
1201 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1202 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1205 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1206 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1209 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1210 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1211 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1212 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1213 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1216 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1217 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1220 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1221 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1222 $sender_host_address.
1224 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1226 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1227 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1228 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1230 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
1233 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1234 (this can affect the format of dates).
1236 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1237 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1238 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1239 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1241 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1242 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1243 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1245 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1246 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1247 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1248 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1250 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1251 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1252 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1254 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1257 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1258 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1259 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1260 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1261 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1262 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1265 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1266 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1267 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1268 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1271 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1272 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1273 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1274 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1275 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1276 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1277 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1279 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1280 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1281 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1282 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1283 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1284 running as the user.
1287 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1288 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1289 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1292 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1293 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1294 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1295 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1296 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1298 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1299 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1300 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1301 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1304 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1305 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1306 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1307 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1308 because the tests only now provoked it.
1314 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1315 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1316 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1317 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1318 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1319 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1320 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1322 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1323 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1326 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1328 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1330 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1331 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1334 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1335 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1336 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1337 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1338 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1340 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1341 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1343 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1345 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1347 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1350 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1351 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1353 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1354 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1355 affecting debugging statements).
1357 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1359 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1360 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1361 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1362 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1363 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1364 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1365 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1366 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1367 after the received time, and all would be well.
1369 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1370 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1371 condition in an expansion string.
1373 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1375 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1376 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1377 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1378 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1379 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1380 job under whatever limits there are.
1382 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1384 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1387 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1388 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1389 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1390 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1393 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1394 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1395 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1396 binary data in such strings.
1398 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1400 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1401 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1402 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1403 failure, which is pointless.
1405 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1407 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1409 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1410 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1411 Sender: header lines.
1413 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1414 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1415 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1417 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1418 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1419 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1420 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1421 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1424 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1425 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1426 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1427 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1428 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1430 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1431 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1432 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1435 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1436 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1438 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1439 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1441 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1443 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1445 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1447 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1450 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1452 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1454 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1455 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1456 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1457 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1459 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1460 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1466 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1467 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1468 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1470 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1471 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1472 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1473 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1474 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1475 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1477 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1478 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1479 verification failure".
1481 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1482 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1483 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1484 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1486 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1487 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1488 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1489 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1490 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1491 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1492 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1493 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1494 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1495 treated as a timeout.
1497 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1498 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1499 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1500 not set for Exim filters).
1502 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1503 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1504 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1506 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1508 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1509 try to make them clearer.
1511 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1512 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1514 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1516 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1518 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1519 only the Cygwin environment.
1521 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1522 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1523 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1524 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1525 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1527 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1528 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1529 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1530 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1531 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1532 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1533 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1535 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1536 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1538 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1540 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1541 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1542 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1544 To: susanne@some.where
1546 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1547 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1548 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1549 of addresses in From: header lines).
1551 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1552 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1553 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1555 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1556 treated as non-personal.
1558 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1559 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1561 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1563 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1565 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1566 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1567 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1569 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1570 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1572 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1573 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1574 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1575 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1576 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1577 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1579 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1580 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1581 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1582 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1583 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1584 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1585 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1586 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1588 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1590 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1591 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1593 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1594 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1595 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1597 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1598 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1600 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1601 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1602 rather than long int.
1604 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1606 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1612 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1613 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1614 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1615 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1616 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1617 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1623 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1624 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1626 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1627 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1628 socklen_t is defined.
1630 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1633 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1636 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1637 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1638 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1639 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1640 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1642 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1643 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1644 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1645 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1647 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1648 of flapping under certain conditions.
1650 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1651 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1652 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1654 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1656 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1658 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1659 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1660 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1661 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1663 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1664 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1665 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1666 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1667 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1668 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1669 preserved with the message after it was received.
1671 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1672 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1673 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1674 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1675 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1676 test suite worked just fine.
1678 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1679 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1680 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1682 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1683 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1686 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1687 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1688 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1689 does not fully solve it.
1691 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1692 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1693 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1694 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1695 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1697 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1698 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1699 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1701 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1702 string, for example:
1704 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1706 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1707 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1708 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1709 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1710 the routers could not see them.
1712 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1713 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1715 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1716 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1719 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1720 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1721 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1722 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1723 that needed quoting.
1725 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1726 was not being matched caselessly.
1728 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1731 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1732 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1733 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1734 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1735 when use_sender is false.
1737 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1739 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1741 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1743 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1744 the configuration file.
1746 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1747 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1749 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1751 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1752 bytes in the message body.
1754 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1755 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1758 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1760 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1762 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1763 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1764 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1765 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1772 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1773 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1775 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1776 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1777 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1778 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1779 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1781 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1782 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1784 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1785 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1786 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1788 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1789 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1790 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1792 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1795 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1796 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1797 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1798 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1799 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1800 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1801 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1807 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1808 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1809 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1810 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1811 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1812 default (and expected) setting.
1814 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1815 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1816 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1817 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1819 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1820 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1822 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1825 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1826 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1827 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1828 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1829 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1830 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1832 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1833 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1834 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1836 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1837 part (NOT match_host).
1839 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1841 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1842 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1843 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1844 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1845 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1846 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1847 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1848 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1849 the same named file.
1851 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1852 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1855 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1856 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1857 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1858 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1861 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1862 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1863 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1865 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1867 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1869 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1871 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1872 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1874 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1875 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1876 before starting the TLS session.
1878 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1880 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1881 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1883 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1884 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1885 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1886 colon in the middle).
1892 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1893 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1894 multiple configurations are in use.
1896 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1897 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1898 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1899 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1900 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1901 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1903 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1904 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1906 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1907 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1908 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1910 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1911 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1914 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1915 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1917 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1919 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1920 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1922 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1930 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1931 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1932 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1933 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1934 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1936 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1939 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1940 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1941 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1942 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1943 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1944 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1946 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1947 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1948 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1949 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1950 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1951 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1952 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1955 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1956 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1957 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1958 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1959 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1961 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1963 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1964 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1965 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1967 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1969 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1970 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1971 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1974 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1975 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1977 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1978 Three changes have been made:
1980 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1981 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1982 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1983 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1984 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1986 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1989 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1990 the modified behaviour.
1996 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1999 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
2000 indeed breaks things for older releases.
2002 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
2003 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
2004 try to track down a specific problem.
2006 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
2007 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
2008 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
2010 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
2013 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
2014 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
2015 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
2016 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
2017 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
2018 some earlier ones do not.
2020 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
2022 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
2023 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
2024 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2025 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
2026 address literals are enabled, of course).
2028 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
2030 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
2031 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
2032 by a command such as
2036 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
2038 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
2040 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
2041 remained set. It is now erased.
2043 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
2044 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
2046 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
2047 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
2048 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
2049 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
2050 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
2051 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
2052 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
2053 appropriate error code.
2055 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
2056 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
2057 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
2058 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
2059 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
2060 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
2062 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
2063 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
2064 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2066 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2067 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2068 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2069 terminate the header.
2071 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2072 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2073 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2075 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2076 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2077 (4.30/29). In particular:
2079 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2082 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2083 to write a maildirsize file.
2085 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2086 the transport, the new value overrides.
2088 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2091 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2092 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2093 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2096 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2097 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2098 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2101 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2102 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2103 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2105 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2106 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2109 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2110 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2111 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2113 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2115 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2117 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2119 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2120 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2123 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2124 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2125 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2126 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2127 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2128 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2129 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2132 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2133 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2134 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2135 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2136 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2139 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2140 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2141 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2142 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2143 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2144 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2145 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2146 cached value only when the same options are set.
2148 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2150 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2151 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2152 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2153 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2154 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2156 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2157 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2158 it is clearly obsolete.
2160 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2163 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2164 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2165 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2168 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2169 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2170 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2171 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2172 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2174 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2175 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2176 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2177 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2179 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2181 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2183 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2184 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2187 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2188 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2189 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2190 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2191 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2192 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2195 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2196 with the -f command-line option.
2198 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2199 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2200 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2201 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2202 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2203 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2205 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2206 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2209 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2210 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2211 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2212 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2213 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2214 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2215 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2216 buffer is too small.
2218 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2219 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2221 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2222 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2223 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2224 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2225 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2226 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2227 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2228 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2229 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2231 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2232 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2233 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2235 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2236 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2239 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2240 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2241 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2242 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2243 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2245 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2246 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2247 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2248 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2251 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2253 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2255 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2256 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2258 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2259 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2260 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2262 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2263 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2264 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2265 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2266 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2268 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2269 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2270 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2271 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2272 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2273 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2274 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2276 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2277 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2278 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2279 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2280 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2281 the test of how many are available.
2283 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2284 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2285 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2286 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2287 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2288 new message is started.
2290 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2291 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2293 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2294 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2296 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2297 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2298 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2301 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2302 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2303 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2304 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2305 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2306 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2307 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2309 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2310 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2311 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2312 interpreted as octal.
2314 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2317 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2318 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2319 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2320 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2321 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2322 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2324 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2325 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2326 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2327 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2329 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2330 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2331 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2332 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2334 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2335 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2338 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2339 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2341 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2343 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2344 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2345 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2346 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2348 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2349 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2350 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2351 supplied", which is not helpful.
2353 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2354 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2355 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2357 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2358 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2359 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2360 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2361 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2362 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2363 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2364 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2366 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2367 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2368 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2369 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2370 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2372 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2373 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2374 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2375 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2376 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2377 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2379 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2380 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2381 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2383 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2385 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2386 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2387 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2390 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2392 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2393 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2394 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2395 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2396 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2397 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2398 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2399 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2401 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2402 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2403 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2404 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2405 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2407 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2410 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2411 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2412 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2413 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2414 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2415 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2416 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2417 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2418 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2424 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2425 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2426 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2428 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2431 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2432 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2433 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2435 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2436 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2437 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2438 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2439 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2440 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2442 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2443 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2444 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2445 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2446 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2447 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2448 the Exim test suite.
2450 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2451 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2452 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2453 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2455 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2456 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2457 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2458 specify it in this variable.
2460 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2461 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2462 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2463 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2465 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2466 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2467 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2468 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2470 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2471 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2472 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2473 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2474 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2476 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2478 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2481 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2482 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2483 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2484 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2485 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2487 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2488 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2490 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2491 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2492 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2493 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2494 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2496 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2497 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2499 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2500 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2501 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2503 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2504 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2506 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2507 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2509 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2510 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2511 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2513 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2514 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2516 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2517 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2518 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2519 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2521 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2523 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2524 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2525 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2526 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2528 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2530 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2531 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2533 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2535 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2536 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2537 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2538 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2539 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2540 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2542 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2544 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2545 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2548 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2550 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2551 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2553 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2554 550 Sender verify failed
2556 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2557 the final line of the response.
2559 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2560 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2561 all other user lookups.
2563 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2566 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2567 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2568 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2569 result into an int without checking.
2571 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2572 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2573 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2575 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2576 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2577 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2578 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2580 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2583 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2584 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2586 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2587 to the empty sender.
2589 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2590 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2591 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2592 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2593 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2594 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2595 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2598 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2599 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2600 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2601 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2604 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2605 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2607 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2610 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2611 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2613 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2615 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2616 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2619 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2620 as soon as it is encountered.
2622 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2624 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2627 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2628 recognizes a tab character.
2630 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2631 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2632 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2633 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2635 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2637 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2640 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2642 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2644 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2645 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2648 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2649 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2650 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2651 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2652 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2654 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2655 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2657 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2658 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2659 list (.included file names were always shown).
2661 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2662 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2663 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2666 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2667 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2669 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2671 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2673 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2675 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2676 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2677 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2678 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2679 failures to open the logs.
2681 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2682 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2683 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2684 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2685 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2686 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2687 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2693 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2694 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2695 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2698 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2699 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2700 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2702 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2703 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2704 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2706 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2707 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2708 causing some misleading effects.
2710 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2711 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2712 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2714 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2715 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2716 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2717 queue-runner function directly.
2723 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2726 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2727 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2728 was always written to the default place.
2730 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2731 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2732 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2734 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2736 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2738 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2739 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2740 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2742 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2743 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2746 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2747 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2748 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2750 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2751 command line option is disabled.
2753 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2754 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2756 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2758 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2760 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2761 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2763 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2765 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2766 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2767 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2768 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2769 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2770 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2772 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2773 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2776 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2777 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2779 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2780 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2782 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2783 received was valid base64.
2785 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2786 name of the variable that was being set.
2788 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2790 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2791 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2792 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2793 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2794 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2795 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2797 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2799 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2800 nor realm was specified.
2802 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2803 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2804 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2805 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2807 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2808 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2809 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2811 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2812 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2813 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2815 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2816 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2817 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2818 some systems use these upper case variants.
2820 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2821 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2822 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2823 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2825 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2827 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2828 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2830 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2831 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2834 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2836 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2837 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2838 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2839 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2841 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2844 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2845 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2846 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2848 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2849 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2851 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2852 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2853 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2854 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2856 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2857 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2858 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2860 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2862 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2863 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2864 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2865 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2868 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2869 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2870 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2872 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2874 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2875 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2877 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2878 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2880 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2881 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2882 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2883 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2884 when emails are that large.
2891 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2892 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2894 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2895 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2896 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2898 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2899 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2900 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2902 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2903 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2904 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2905 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2906 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2908 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2909 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2910 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2911 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2912 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2915 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2916 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2917 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2918 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2919 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2920 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2921 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2922 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2923 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2924 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2925 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2926 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2927 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2928 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2930 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2931 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2934 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2935 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2936 error should be diagnosed.
2938 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2939 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2940 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2941 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2942 appeared instead of "NULL".
2944 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2945 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2946 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2947 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2948 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2949 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2952 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2953 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2954 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2960 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2961 or receiver verification errors.
2963 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2966 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2967 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2968 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2969 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2971 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2972 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2973 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2974 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2975 shouldn't happen again.
2977 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2978 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2979 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2981 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2982 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2984 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2986 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2987 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2989 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2990 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2993 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2994 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2995 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2997 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2998 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2999 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
3000 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
3002 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
3003 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
3004 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
3005 to define what should happen).
3007 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
3008 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
3009 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
3011 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
3013 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
3015 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
3016 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
3018 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
3019 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
3020 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
3021 structure in all cases.
3023 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
3024 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
3025 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
3026 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
3028 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
3029 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
3032 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
3033 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
3035 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
3036 MD5 (which is deprecated).
3038 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
3039 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
3040 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
3042 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
3043 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
3044 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
3046 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
3047 the book and for uniformity.
3049 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
3051 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
3052 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
3053 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
3054 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
3055 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
3056 non-existent command as the problem.
3058 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
3059 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
3060 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
3062 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
3064 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
3065 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3066 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3068 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3069 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3070 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3071 timestamps using strftime().
3073 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3074 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3076 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3077 transport-time rewrites.
3079 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3080 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3081 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3082 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3084 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3085 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3087 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3088 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3089 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3090 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3093 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3094 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3095 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3096 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3097 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3098 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3099 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3101 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3102 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3103 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3104 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3105 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3107 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3108 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3109 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3110 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3111 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3112 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3113 remaining text gets split now.
3115 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3116 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3117 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3118 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3120 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3121 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3122 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3123 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3126 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3127 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3128 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3129 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3130 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3131 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3132 passed through if needed.
3134 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3135 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3136 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3137 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3138 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3139 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3141 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3142 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3143 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3144 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3145 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3147 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3148 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3149 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3150 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3151 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3153 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3154 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3157 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3158 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3159 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3160 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3161 mayhem of various kinds.
3163 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3164 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3165 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3166 the right test for positive values.
3168 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3169 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3170 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3171 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3172 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3173 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3174 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3175 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3176 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3177 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3180 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3183 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3184 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3187 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3188 the existing equality matching.
3190 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3191 dealing with inode numbers.
3193 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3194 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3195 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3197 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3198 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3199 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3200 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3203 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3204 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3205 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3206 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3207 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3208 relay addresses has also been removed.
3210 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3212 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3213 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3214 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3216 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3217 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3218 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3219 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3220 processing applies to CR:
3222 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3223 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3225 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3226 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3227 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3228 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3230 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3231 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3232 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3234 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3235 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3236 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3237 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3238 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3239 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3242 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3245 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3246 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3247 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3248 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3251 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3253 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3255 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3257 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3258 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3259 not considered personal.
3261 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3263 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3265 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3267 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3268 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3269 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3270 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3271 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3272 header lines, and spool format errors.
3274 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3275 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3276 for more flexibility.
3278 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3279 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3280 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3282 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3285 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3286 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3287 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3288 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3289 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3290 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3291 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3292 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3293 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3295 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3296 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3297 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3298 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3299 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3300 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3301 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3303 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3304 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3305 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3307 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3308 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3309 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3310 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3311 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3312 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3313 instead of killing the process with assert().
3315 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3316 than Unicode encoding.
3318 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3319 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3320 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3321 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3323 77. Added process_log_path.
3325 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3326 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3328 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3329 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3331 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3332 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3333 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3335 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3336 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3337 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3338 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3339 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3342 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3343 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3346 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3347 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3348 they will be used during message reception.
3354 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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