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3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
10 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
12 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
14 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
17 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
18 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
20 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
21 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
22 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
24 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
25 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
26 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
29 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
30 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
31 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
32 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
39 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
41 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
42 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
44 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
46 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
48 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
51 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
52 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
54 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
55 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
57 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
60 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
63 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
64 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
66 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
67 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
68 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
69 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
71 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
72 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
78 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
81 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
82 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
83 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
85 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
86 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
88 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
89 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
90 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
92 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
93 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
95 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
96 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
98 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
99 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
101 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
102 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
104 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
105 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
107 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
110 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
111 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
113 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
114 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
116 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
117 SQL string expansion failure details.
118 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
120 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
121 Patch from Simon Arlott.
123 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
124 extern declarations in function scope.
125 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
127 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
128 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
129 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
132 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
133 Patch from Mark Zealey.
135 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
136 Patch from Mark Zealey.
138 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
139 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
141 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
142 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
144 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
145 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
148 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
150 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
152 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
153 Patch by Simon Arlott
155 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
156 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
162 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
163 consequences so log it to the panic log.
165 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
166 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
168 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
170 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
171 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
172 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
174 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
175 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
176 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
178 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
179 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
180 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
181 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
183 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
184 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
185 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
186 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
188 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
189 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
190 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
193 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
196 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
197 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
198 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
199 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
200 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
206 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
207 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
208 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
210 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
211 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
213 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
215 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
217 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
219 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
221 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
223 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
224 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
225 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
226 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
228 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
229 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
230 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
231 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
232 more caution in buffer sizes.
234 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
236 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
238 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
240 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
242 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
244 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
246 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
248 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
249 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
250 ignore trailing whitespace.
252 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
254 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
257 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
258 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
260 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
261 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
262 Notification from John Horne.
264 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
267 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
268 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
271 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
274 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
275 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
276 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
278 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
279 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
280 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
283 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
284 option (effectively making it always true).
286 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
287 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
289 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
290 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
292 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
293 run-time user, instead of root.
295 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
296 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
298 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
299 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
302 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
303 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
304 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
306 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
308 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
314 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
315 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
318 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
319 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
322 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
323 Patch from Alain Williams
325 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
327 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
328 Patch from Andreas Metzler
330 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
331 Patch from Kirill Miazine
333 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
335 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
337 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
338 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
340 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
342 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
344 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
345 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
346 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
348 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
349 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
351 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
352 Patch by Simon Arlott
354 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
355 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
361 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
363 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
365 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
367 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
369 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
375 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
376 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
378 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
379 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
382 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
383 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
384 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
386 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
387 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
389 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
390 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
391 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
392 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
394 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
395 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
396 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
398 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
400 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
402 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
403 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
405 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
407 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
408 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
409 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
410 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
412 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
413 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
415 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
417 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
419 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
420 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
422 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
423 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
425 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
426 that they are available at delivery time.
428 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
430 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
431 incoming_port log selectors.
433 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
434 setting expands to an empty string.
436 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
437 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
439 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
440 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
442 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
443 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
445 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
446 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
448 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
449 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
451 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
452 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
454 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
456 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
457 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
459 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
460 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
462 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
464 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
465 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
467 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
469 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
471 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
474 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
475 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
477 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
478 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
480 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
481 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
483 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
484 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
486 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
487 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
489 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
490 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
492 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
493 plus update to original patch.
495 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
497 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
498 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
500 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
502 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
504 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
506 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
508 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
509 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
511 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
512 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
514 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
515 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
517 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
518 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
520 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
522 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
524 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
526 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
532 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
533 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
534 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
536 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
537 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
538 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
539 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
540 build errors in sieve.c.
542 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
543 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
544 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
546 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
548 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
550 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
552 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
558 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
560 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
561 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
562 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
563 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
564 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
565 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
566 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
567 for iplsearch lookups.
569 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
570 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
571 previously such lookups could never work.
573 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
574 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
575 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
577 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
580 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
581 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
582 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
583 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
584 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
585 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
587 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
588 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
590 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
591 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
592 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
593 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
594 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
595 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
597 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
600 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
602 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
603 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
606 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
607 by clients under certain conditions.
609 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
610 "_responses" off the end of the name.
612 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
614 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
615 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
617 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
619 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
621 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
623 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
624 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
626 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
628 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
629 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
631 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
633 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
635 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
636 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
637 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
638 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
640 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
641 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
642 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
644 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
645 and InterBase are left for another time.)
647 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
649 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
651 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
653 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
654 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
655 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
661 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
662 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
665 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
666 issue a MAIL command.
668 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
670 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
672 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
673 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
674 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
675 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
676 item. This has been fixed.
678 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
679 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
681 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
682 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
684 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
685 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
686 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
688 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
690 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
691 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
692 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
693 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
694 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
696 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
697 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
698 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
700 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
701 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
702 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
703 the server_setid option was incorrect.
705 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
707 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
709 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
710 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
711 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
712 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
713 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
715 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
717 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
718 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
719 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
722 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
724 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
726 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
728 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
730 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
732 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
733 no_callout_flush is set.
735 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
736 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
737 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
740 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
742 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
743 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
744 other ACL rejections are.
746 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
747 with slight modification.
749 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
750 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
752 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
753 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
756 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
757 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
759 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
761 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
762 expansion side effects.
764 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
765 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
766 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
769 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
770 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
771 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
773 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
774 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
775 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
776 were accidentally chopped off.
778 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
779 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
780 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
781 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
782 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
783 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
784 pipelining has not been advertised.
786 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
788 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
789 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
792 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
793 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
796 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
797 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
798 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
799 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
800 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
801 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
802 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
804 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
807 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
809 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
811 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
812 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
813 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
814 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
815 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
816 criteria to be more general.
818 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
819 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
820 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
821 host_all_ignored option.
823 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
824 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
825 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
826 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
827 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
828 is what is supposed to happen).
830 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
831 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
832 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
833 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
834 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
837 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
838 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
839 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
840 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
841 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
842 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
845 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
847 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
848 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
850 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
851 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
853 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
855 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
857 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
858 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
859 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
860 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
861 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
862 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
863 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
864 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
865 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
866 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
867 least in a lot of common cases.
869 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
870 advertised in response to EHLO.
876 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
877 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
879 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
880 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
882 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
883 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
884 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
886 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
887 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
888 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
889 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
890 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
896 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
897 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
900 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
901 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
902 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
904 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
905 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
906 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
907 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
908 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
909 rather than extend the field.
915 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
916 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
917 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
918 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
921 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
922 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
923 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
925 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
926 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
927 hence the _LINUX specificness.
929 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
930 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
931 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
934 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
935 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
936 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
937 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
938 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
939 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
940 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
941 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
942 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
943 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
944 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
946 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
949 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
950 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
951 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
952 ignores EPIPE as well.
954 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
955 (quoted-printable decoding).
957 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
958 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
960 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
962 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
964 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
966 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
967 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
969 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
972 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
973 miscellaneous code fixes
975 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
978 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
979 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
980 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
981 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
982 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
983 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
984 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
985 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
987 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
988 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
989 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
990 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
992 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
993 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
994 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
995 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
996 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
997 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
998 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
999 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1000 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1002 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1005 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1006 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1007 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1008 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1009 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1010 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1011 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1012 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1014 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1015 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1018 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1019 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1020 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1021 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1022 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1023 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1024 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1025 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1026 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1027 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1028 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1029 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1030 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1032 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1033 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1034 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1035 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1036 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1037 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1038 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1040 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1041 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1042 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1043 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1044 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1045 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1046 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1047 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1048 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1049 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1051 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1052 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1053 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1054 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1055 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1057 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1058 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1059 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1060 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1061 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1062 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1063 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1065 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1066 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1067 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1068 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1069 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1070 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1073 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1074 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1075 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1078 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1079 if any retry times were supplied.
1081 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1082 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1083 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1085 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1087 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1089 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1090 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1091 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1092 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1093 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1094 before) are ignored.
1096 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1097 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1099 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1100 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1101 committing the later change.]
1103 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1104 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1105 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1106 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1107 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1108 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1109 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1110 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1111 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1113 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1114 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1115 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1116 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1117 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1118 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1119 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1120 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1121 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1123 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1124 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1125 hammering the server.
1127 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1128 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1130 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1132 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1133 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1134 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1136 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1137 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1138 one case where this was not true.
1140 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1141 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1142 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1143 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1146 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1147 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1148 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1149 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1150 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1151 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1152 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1153 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1154 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1157 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1158 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1159 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1160 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1162 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1163 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1165 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1166 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1167 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1169 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1171 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1173 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1175 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1176 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1177 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1178 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1180 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1181 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1183 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1184 be meaningful with "accept".
1186 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1187 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1189 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1190 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1191 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1193 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1194 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1195 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1196 there is data to show.
1197 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1199 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1200 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1201 as well as the number of messages.
1203 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1204 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1205 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1207 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1208 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1209 have a flag are now skipped.
1211 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1212 Added the -emptyok flag.
1214 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1215 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1217 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1218 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1219 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1221 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1224 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1225 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1227 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1229 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1230 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1232 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1234 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1235 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1236 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1237 contravention of the specifications.
1239 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1240 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1241 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1243 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1244 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1245 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1247 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1249 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1250 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1251 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1252 some point in the past.
1254 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1255 transport during callout processing was broken.
1257 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1258 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1260 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1261 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1263 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1264 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1266 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1272 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1273 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1275 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1276 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1277 there is data to show.
1278 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1280 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1281 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1283 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1284 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1286 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1287 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1289 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1290 submissions from trusted users.
1292 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1293 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1295 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1296 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1297 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1298 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1299 there is now a framework to start from.
1301 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1302 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1303 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1305 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1307 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1309 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1311 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1312 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1313 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1315 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1318 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1319 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1320 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1322 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1323 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1324 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1327 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1328 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1329 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1330 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1331 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1333 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1334 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1336 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1338 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1339 operations in malware.c.
1341 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1344 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1345 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1346 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1349 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1350 statements to "add_header".
1352 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1353 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1355 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1356 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1359 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1363 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1364 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1365 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1368 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1369 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1371 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1372 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1374 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1375 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1376 any possible encoding problems.
1378 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1379 but not after initializing Perl.
1381 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1382 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1383 apparently, which is not desirable.
1385 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1388 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1391 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1393 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1394 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1395 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1396 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1398 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1399 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1400 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1402 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1403 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1404 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1407 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1408 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1409 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1410 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1411 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1417 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1418 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1420 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1423 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1424 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1425 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1426 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1427 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1428 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1429 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1430 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1433 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1435 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1436 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1437 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1439 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1440 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1441 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1444 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1445 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1447 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1448 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1449 option (which defaults to 0600).
1451 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1453 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1454 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1455 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1456 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1457 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1458 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1459 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1461 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1467 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1468 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1469 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1470 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1471 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1472 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1475 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1476 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1478 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1480 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1481 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1482 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1483 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1484 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1487 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1488 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1490 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1491 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1492 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1493 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1494 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1496 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1497 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1498 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1499 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1501 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1502 be the same on different OS.
1504 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1507 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1508 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1510 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1513 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1514 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1515 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1516 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1517 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1518 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1521 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1522 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1523 when Exim was called.
1525 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1526 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1528 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1529 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1530 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1531 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1533 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1534 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1535 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1536 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1539 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1540 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1541 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1543 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1544 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1545 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1547 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1550 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1551 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1552 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1553 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1554 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1555 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1556 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1557 values from the SRV records were lost.
1559 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1560 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1561 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1563 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1564 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1565 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1567 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1568 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1569 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1570 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1571 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1572 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1573 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1574 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1575 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1576 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1578 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1579 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1580 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1582 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1583 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1585 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1586 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1587 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1588 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1591 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1592 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1593 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1595 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1596 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1597 PH/23 above applies.
1599 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1600 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1601 (for which there is an explicit test).
1603 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1605 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1606 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1607 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1608 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1609 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1611 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1612 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1613 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1614 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1616 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1617 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1618 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1620 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1622 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1624 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1625 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1626 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1628 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1629 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1630 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1631 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1632 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1634 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1635 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1636 the message gets confusing).
1638 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1639 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1640 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1641 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1643 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1644 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1645 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1646 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1649 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1650 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1651 the different processes.
1653 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1655 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1657 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1658 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1660 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1661 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1663 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1664 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1665 messages matching specified criteria.
1667 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1669 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1670 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1672 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1673 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1674 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1675 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1676 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1677 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1678 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1679 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1680 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1681 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1683 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1684 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1685 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1687 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1689 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1690 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1691 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1692 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1693 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1694 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1695 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1698 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1699 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1701 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1703 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1705 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1707 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1708 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1709 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1710 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1711 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1712 size of the count of files.
1714 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1716 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1719 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1720 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1721 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1722 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1724 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1725 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1726 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1728 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1729 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1730 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1731 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1732 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1734 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1735 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1737 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1738 will now be deprecated.
1740 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1742 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1743 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1744 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1746 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1747 with very large, slow to parse queues
1749 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1751 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1753 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1754 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1755 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1758 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1759 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1760 Sieve code now uses this.
1762 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1763 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1765 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1766 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1768 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1770 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1771 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1772 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1773 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1774 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1776 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1777 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1778 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1779 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1781 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1783 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1785 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1786 is preferred over IPv4.
1788 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1789 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1790 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1791 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1792 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1793 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1794 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1796 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1797 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1798 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1800 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1802 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1803 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1804 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1805 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1806 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1807 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1808 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1809 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1810 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1811 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1812 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1814 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1815 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1816 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1822 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1824 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1825 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1827 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1828 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1829 statements are most likely to be submissions.
1831 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1833 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1836 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1839 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1840 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1841 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1844 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1845 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1847 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1848 inside the third argument.
1850 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1851 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1854 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1855 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
1857 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1858 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1860 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1862 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1863 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1866 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1868 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1869 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1870 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1871 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1872 identical. For example:
1874 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1876 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1877 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1878 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1880 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1881 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1882 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1883 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1885 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1886 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1887 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1890 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1892 o fixes some comments
1893 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1894 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1895 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1896 and documents the missing references header update
1900 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1901 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1904 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1905 Electronic Mail") by including:
1907 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1909 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1910 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1911 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1912 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1913 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1915 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1917 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1919 The auto-replied keyword:
1921 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1922 message by an automatic process,
1924 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1926 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1927 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1929 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1930 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1933 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1934 to the default Received: header definition.
1936 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1938 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1939 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1940 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1942 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1943 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1944 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1946 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1947 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1948 and treats the condition as false.
1950 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1952 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1953 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1954 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1955 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1956 not changing the active code.
1958 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1959 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1961 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1962 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1964 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1967 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1968 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1969 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1970 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1971 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1972 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1973 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1974 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1975 the text comparison.
1977 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1978 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1979 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1980 The same fix has been applied.
1986 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1987 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1990 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1991 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1993 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1995 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1996 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1997 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1998 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1999 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2001 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2002 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2003 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2004 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2007 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2015 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2016 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2018 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2020 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2022 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2023 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2024 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2026 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2027 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2028 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2030 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2031 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2034 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2035 ${stat: expansion item.
2037 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2038 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2040 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2041 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2044 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2046 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2049 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2050 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2052 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2054 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2055 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2056 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2057 the end of the subprocess.
2059 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2060 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2061 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2062 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2063 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2065 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2067 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2069 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2070 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2072 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2074 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2076 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2077 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2080 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2082 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2083 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2084 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2086 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2087 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2089 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2090 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2092 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2093 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2095 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2096 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2098 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2099 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2100 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2101 contributed by a Radius user.
2103 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2104 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2106 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2107 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2109 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2112 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2113 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2116 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2117 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2118 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2119 header lines when this was not necessary.
2121 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2123 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2124 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2125 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2128 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2131 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2132 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2133 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2134 return code was incorrect.
2136 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2138 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2140 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2142 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2144 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2145 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2146 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2147 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2148 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2151 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2153 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2154 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2155 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2156 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2157 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2158 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2159 which is clearly wrong.
2161 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2163 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2164 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2165 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2168 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2169 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2171 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2173 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2174 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2176 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2177 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2179 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2180 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2182 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2183 recipients, not senders.
2185 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2186 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2188 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2190 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2192 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2193 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2194 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2195 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2197 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2199 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2200 clock is set back in time.
2202 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2203 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2205 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2206 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2208 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2209 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2212 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2213 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2216 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2219 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2221 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2222 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2223 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2225 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2226 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2227 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2228 helo verification defer as a failure.
2230 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2231 actual error message.
2237 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2239 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2240 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2241 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2242 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2244 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2246 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2247 can still be requested.
2249 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2250 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2251 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2252 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2254 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2255 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2256 circumstances, but probably never did.
2258 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2259 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2260 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2263 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2265 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2266 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2268 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2270 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2272 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2273 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2274 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2275 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2276 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2277 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2279 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2280 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2281 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2282 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2283 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2284 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2286 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2287 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2289 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2290 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2292 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2293 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2295 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2297 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2299 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2301 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2303 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2305 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2307 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2309 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2310 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2311 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2313 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2314 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2315 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2316 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2318 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2319 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2320 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2322 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2323 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2324 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2325 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2327 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2328 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2331 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2332 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2333 should work with maildirs and everything.
2335 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2336 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2338 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2341 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2342 function for BDB 4.3.
2344 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2346 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2347 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2350 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2351 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2352 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2353 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2354 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2355 formatting function string_vformat().
2357 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2358 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2359 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2360 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2361 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2362 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2363 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2364 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2366 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2367 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2370 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2371 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2373 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2374 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2375 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2376 test. It is now used for both.
2378 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2379 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2380 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2381 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2382 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2383 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2385 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2386 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2387 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2390 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2391 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2392 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2394 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2395 experimental DomainKeys support:
2397 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2398 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2399 the control was given.
2401 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2403 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2405 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2407 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2408 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2409 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2412 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2413 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2414 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2415 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2416 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2417 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2420 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2421 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2422 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2423 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2424 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2425 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2427 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2428 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2429 do -d+all out of habit.
2431 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2432 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2435 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2436 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2437 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2438 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2439 record types that Exim uses.
2441 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2442 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2443 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2444 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2445 non-existent file that was broken.
2447 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2448 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2450 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2451 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2452 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2454 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2456 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2457 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2458 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2459 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2460 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2463 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2464 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2465 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2466 at a slight CPU cost.
2468 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2469 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2471 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2474 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2476 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2477 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2483 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2484 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2486 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2488 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2490 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2491 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2493 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2494 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2495 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2496 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2497 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2498 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2501 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2502 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2503 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2504 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2507 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2508 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2509 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2510 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2511 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2512 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2513 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2516 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2517 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2519 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2520 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2521 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2522 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2523 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2524 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2526 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2527 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2528 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2529 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2531 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2534 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2535 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2537 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2538 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2539 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2540 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2543 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2545 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2546 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2548 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2549 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2550 to what was transported.)
2552 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2554 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2555 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2556 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2557 spamd_address settings.
2559 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2560 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2561 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2562 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2563 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2565 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2567 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2568 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2569 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2570 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2571 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2573 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2574 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2576 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2577 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2578 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2579 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2580 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2581 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2582 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2585 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2586 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2587 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2588 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2589 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2590 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2591 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2594 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2596 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2597 driver and ACL definitions.
2599 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2600 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2602 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2603 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2604 understands it better than I do:
2606 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2607 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2609 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2610 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2611 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2612 => three warnings about OTP not working
2613 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2615 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2616 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2617 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2618 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2620 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2621 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2623 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2624 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2625 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2627 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2628 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2631 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2632 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2635 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2636 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2637 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2639 warn !verify = sender
2640 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2642 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2643 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2645 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2647 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2648 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2650 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2651 nomenclature these days.)
2653 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2654 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2656 PH/30 In these circumstances:
2657 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2658 . First host does not offer TLS;
2659 . First host accepts first address;
2660 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2661 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2662 . Second host accepts second address.
2663 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2664 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2667 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2668 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2669 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2670 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2671 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2673 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2674 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2676 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2677 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2679 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2680 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2681 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2683 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2684 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2687 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2689 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2690 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2691 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2692 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2693 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2694 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2695 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2697 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2698 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2699 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2700 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2701 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2703 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2704 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2707 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2708 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2709 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2710 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2711 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2712 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2714 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2716 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2717 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2718 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2719 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2720 printable escape sequences.
2722 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2723 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2726 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2727 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2730 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2731 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2732 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2733 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2734 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2736 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2737 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2738 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2740 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2742 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2743 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2746 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2747 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2748 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2749 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2750 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2751 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2752 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2753 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2754 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2757 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2758 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2759 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2760 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2764 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2765 ----------------------------------------
2767 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2768 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2769 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2770 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2771 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2772 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2775 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
2776 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2777 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2778 historical information.
2784 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2786 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
2787 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
2789 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2790 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2793 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2794 filter fails to execute.
2796 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2797 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2798 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2799 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2800 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2802 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2804 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2805 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2806 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2807 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2809 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2810 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2811 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2812 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2813 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2815 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2817 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2819 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2820 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2821 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2822 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2824 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2825 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2826 sender verification.
2828 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2829 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2831 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2833 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2836 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2837 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2839 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2840 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2842 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2843 information about exactly what failed.
2845 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2847 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2848 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2849 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2851 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2852 It is now set to "smtps".
2854 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2855 ignore_target_hosts.
2857 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2858 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2859 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2860 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2863 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2864 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2865 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2867 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2868 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2869 wake it up if nothing else does.
2871 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2872 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2873 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2876 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2877 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2879 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2881 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2882 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2883 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2884 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2885 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2886 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2887 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2888 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2890 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2891 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2892 than one IP address.
2894 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2895 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2896 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2897 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2899 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2900 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2901 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2902 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2903 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2906 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2907 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2908 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2909 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2911 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2912 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2915 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2916 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2917 $sender_host_address.
2919 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2920 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2921 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2922 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2923 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2926 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2928 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2929 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2931 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2932 just the host names, not the priorities.
2934 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
2935 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2936 controlled by a keyword.
2938 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
2939 multiple records are returned.
2941 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2942 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2945 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2947 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2948 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2950 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2951 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2952 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2954 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2956 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2958 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2960 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2961 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2962 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2963 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2964 because the tests only now provoked it.
2966 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2967 (this can affect the format of dates).
2969 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2970 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2971 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2972 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2974 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2976 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2977 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2978 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2979 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2981 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2982 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2983 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2985 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2988 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2989 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2990 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2991 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2992 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2993 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2996 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2997 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2998 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3001 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3002 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3003 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3005 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3006 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3007 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3008 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3009 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3010 so I produce this patch..."
3012 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3013 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3016 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3017 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3018 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3019 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3022 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3024 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3025 long debug lines gets shown.
3027 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3028 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3030 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3032 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3033 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3034 of $primary_hostname.
3036 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3037 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3038 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3039 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3040 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3041 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3042 by change 4.50/55 above.
3044 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3045 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3046 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3047 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3048 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3049 running as the user.
3052 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3053 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3054 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3057 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3058 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3060 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3061 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3062 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3063 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3064 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3066 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3067 This has been fixed.
3069 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3070 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3071 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3072 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3075 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3077 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3078 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3079 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3080 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3082 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3083 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3085 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3086 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3087 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3089 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3090 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3091 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3094 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3095 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3096 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3098 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3099 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3100 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3101 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3103 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3104 during host lookups.
3106 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3107 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3109 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3111 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3112 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3113 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3114 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3115 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3118 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3119 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3121 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3122 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3123 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3125 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3127 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3128 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3129 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3130 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3131 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3132 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3135 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3136 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3137 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3138 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3139 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3141 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3144 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3146 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3147 "vacation" handling.
3149 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3150 OS variants using glibc.
3152 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3155 ----------------------------------------------------
3156 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3157 ----------------------------------------------------
3163 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3164 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3167 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3168 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3171 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3172 filter fails to execute.
3174 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3175 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3176 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3177 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3178 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3180 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3181 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3182 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3183 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3185 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3186 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3187 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3188 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3189 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3191 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3193 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3194 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3195 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3196 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3198 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3199 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3200 sender verification.
3202 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3203 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3205 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3206 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3208 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3209 ignore_target_hosts.
3211 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3212 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3213 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3214 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3217 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3218 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3219 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3221 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3222 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3223 wake it up if nothing else does.
3225 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3226 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3227 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3230 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3231 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3233 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3235 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3236 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3239 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3240 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3243 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3244 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3245 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3246 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3247 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3250 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3251 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3254 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3255 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3256 $sender_host_address.
3258 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3260 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3261 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3262 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3264 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3267 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3268 (this can affect the format of dates).
3270 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3271 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3272 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3273 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3275 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3276 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3277 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3279 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3280 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3281 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3282 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3284 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3285 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3286 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3288 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3291 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3292 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3293 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3294 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3295 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3296 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3299 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3300 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3301 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3302 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3305 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3306 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3307 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3308 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3309 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3310 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3311 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3313 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3314 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3315 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3316 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3317 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3318 running as the user.
3321 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3322 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3323 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3326 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3327 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3328 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3329 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3330 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3332 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3333 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3334 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3335 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3338 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3339 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3340 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3341 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3342 because the tests only now provoked it.
3348 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3349 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3350 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3351 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3352 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3353 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3354 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3356 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3357 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3360 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3362 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3364 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3365 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3368 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3369 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3370 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3371 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3372 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3374 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3375 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3377 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3379 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3381 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3384 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3385 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3387 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3388 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3389 affecting debugging statements).
3391 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3393 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3394 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3395 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3396 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3397 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3398 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3399 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3400 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3401 after the received time, and all would be well.
3403 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3404 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3405 condition in an expansion string.
3407 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3409 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3410 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3411 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3412 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3413 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3414 job under whatever limits there are.
3416 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3418 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3421 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3422 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3423 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3424 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3427 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3428 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3429 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3430 binary data in such strings.
3432 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3434 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3435 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3436 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3437 failure, which is pointless.
3439 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3441 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3443 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3444 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3445 Sender: header lines.
3447 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3448 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3449 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3451 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3452 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3453 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3454 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3455 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3458 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3459 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3460 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3461 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3462 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3464 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3465 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3466 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3469 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3470 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3472 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3473 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3475 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3477 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3479 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3481 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3484 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3486 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3488 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3489 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3490 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3491 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3493 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3494 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3500 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3501 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3502 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3504 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3505 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3506 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3507 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3508 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3509 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3511 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3512 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3513 verification failure".
3515 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3516 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3517 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3518 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3520 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3521 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3522 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3523 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3524 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3525 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3526 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3527 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3528 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3529 treated as a timeout.
3531 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3532 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3533 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3534 not set for Exim filters).
3536 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3537 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3538 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3540 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3542 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3543 try to make them clearer.
3545 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3546 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3548 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3550 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3552 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3553 only the Cygwin environment.
3555 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3556 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3557 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3558 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3559 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3561 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3562 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3563 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3564 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3565 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3566 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3567 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3569 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3570 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3572 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3574 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3575 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3576 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3578 To: susanne@some.where
3580 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3581 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3582 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3583 of addresses in From: header lines).
3585 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3586 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3587 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3589 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3590 treated as non-personal.
3592 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3593 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3595 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3597 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3599 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3600 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3601 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3603 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3604 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3606 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3607 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3608 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3609 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3610 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3611 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3613 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3614 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3615 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3616 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3617 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3618 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3619 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3620 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3622 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3624 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3625 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3627 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3628 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3629 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3631 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3632 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3634 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3635 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3636 rather than long int.
3638 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3640 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3646 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3647 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3648 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3649 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3650 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3651 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3657 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3658 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3660 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3661 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3662 socklen_t is defined.
3664 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3667 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3670 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3671 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3672 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3673 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3674 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3676 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3677 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3678 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3679 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3681 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3682 of flapping under certain conditions.
3684 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3685 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3686 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3688 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3690 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3692 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3693 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3694 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3695 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3697 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3698 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3699 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3700 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3701 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3702 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3703 preserved with the message after it was received.
3705 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3706 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3707 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3708 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3709 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3710 test suite worked just fine.
3712 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3713 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3714 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3716 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3717 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3720 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3721 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3722 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3723 does not fully solve it.
3725 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3726 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3727 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3728 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3729 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3731 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3732 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3733 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3735 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3736 string, for example:
3738 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3740 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3741 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3742 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3743 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3744 the routers could not see them.
3746 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3747 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3749 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3750 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3753 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3754 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3755 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3756 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3757 that needed quoting.
3759 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3760 was not being matched caselessly.
3762 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3765 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3766 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3767 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3768 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3769 when use_sender is false.
3771 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3773 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3775 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3777 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3778 the configuration file.
3780 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3781 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3783 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3785 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3786 bytes in the message body.
3788 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3789 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3792 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3794 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3796 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3797 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3798 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3799 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3806 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3807 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3809 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3810 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3811 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3812 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3813 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3815 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3816 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3818 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3819 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3820 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3822 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3823 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3824 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3826 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3829 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3830 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3831 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3832 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3833 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3834 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3835 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3841 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3842 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3843 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3844 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3845 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3846 default (and expected) setting.
3848 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3849 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3850 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3851 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3853 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3854 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3856 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3859 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3860 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3861 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3862 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3863 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3864 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3866 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3867 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3868 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3870 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3871 part (NOT match_host).
3873 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3875 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3876 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3877 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3878 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3879 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3880 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3881 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3882 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3883 the same named file.
3885 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3886 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3889 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3890 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3891 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3892 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3895 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3896 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3897 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3899 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3901 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3903 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3905 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3906 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3908 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3909 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3910 before starting the TLS session.
3912 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3914 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3915 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3917 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3918 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3919 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3920 colon in the middle).
3926 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3927 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3928 multiple configurations are in use.
3930 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3931 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3932 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3933 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3934 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3935 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3937 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3938 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3940 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3941 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3942 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3944 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3945 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3948 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3949 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3951 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3953 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3954 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3956 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3964 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3965 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3966 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3967 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3968 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3970 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3973 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3974 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3975 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3976 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3977 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3978 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3980 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3981 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3982 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3983 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3984 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3985 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3986 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3989 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3990 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3991 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3992 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3993 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3995 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3997 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3998 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3999 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4001 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4003 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4004 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4005 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4008 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4009 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4011 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4012 Three changes have been made:
4014 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4015 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4016 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4017 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4018 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4020 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4023 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4024 the modified behaviour.
4030 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4033 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4034 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4036 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4037 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4038 try to track down a specific problem.
4040 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4041 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4042 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4044 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4047 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4048 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4049 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4050 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4051 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4052 some earlier ones do not.
4054 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4056 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4057 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4058 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4059 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4060 address literals are enabled, of course).
4062 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4064 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4065 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4066 by a command such as
4070 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4072 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4074 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4075 remained set. It is now erased.
4077 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4078 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4080 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4081 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4082 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4083 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4084 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4085 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4086 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4087 appropriate error code.
4089 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4090 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4091 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4092 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4093 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4094 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4096 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4097 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4098 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4100 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4101 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4102 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4103 terminate the header.
4105 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4106 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4107 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4109 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4110 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4111 (4.30/29). In particular:
4113 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4116 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4117 to write a maildirsize file.
4119 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4120 the transport, the new value overrides.
4122 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4125 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4126 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4127 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4130 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4131 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4132 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4135 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4136 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4137 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4139 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4140 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4143 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4144 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4145 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4147 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4149 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4151 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4153 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4154 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4157 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4158 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4159 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4160 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4161 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4162 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4163 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4166 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4167 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4168 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4169 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4170 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4173 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4174 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4175 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4176 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4177 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4178 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4179 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4180 cached value only when the same options are set.
4182 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4184 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4185 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4186 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4187 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4188 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4190 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4191 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4192 it is clearly obsolete.
4194 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4197 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4198 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4199 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4202 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4203 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4204 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4205 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4206 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4208 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4209 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4210 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4211 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4213 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4215 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4217 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4218 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4221 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4222 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4223 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4224 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4225 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4226 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4229 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4230 with the -f command-line option.
4232 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4233 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4234 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4235 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4236 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4237 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4239 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4240 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4243 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4244 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4245 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4246 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4247 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4248 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4249 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4250 buffer is too small.
4252 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4253 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4255 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4256 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4257 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4258 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4259 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4260 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4261 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4262 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4263 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4265 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4266 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4267 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4269 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4270 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4273 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4274 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4275 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4276 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4277 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4279 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4280 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4281 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4282 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4285 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4287 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4289 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4290 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4292 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4293 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4294 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4296 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4297 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4298 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4299 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4300 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4302 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4303 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4304 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4305 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4306 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4307 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4308 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4310 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4311 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4312 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4313 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4314 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4315 the test of how many are available.
4317 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4318 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4319 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4320 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4321 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4322 new message is started.
4324 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4325 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4327 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4328 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4330 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4331 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4332 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4335 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4336 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4337 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4338 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4339 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4340 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4341 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4343 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4344 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4345 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4346 interpreted as octal.
4348 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4351 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4352 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4353 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4354 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4355 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4356 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4358 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4359 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4360 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4361 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4363 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4364 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4365 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4366 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4368 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4369 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4372 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4373 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4375 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4377 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4378 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4379 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4380 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4382 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4383 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4384 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4385 supplied", which is not helpful.
4387 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4388 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4389 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4391 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4392 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4393 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4394 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4395 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4396 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4397 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4398 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4400 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4401 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4402 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4403 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4404 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4406 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4407 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4408 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4409 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4410 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4411 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4413 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4414 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4415 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4417 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4419 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4420 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4421 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4424 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4426 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4427 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4428 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4429 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4430 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4431 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4432 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4433 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4435 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4436 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4437 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4438 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4439 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4441 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4444 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4445 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4446 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4447 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4448 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4449 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4450 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4451 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4452 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4458 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4459 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4460 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4462 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4465 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4466 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4467 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4469 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4470 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4471 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4472 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4473 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4474 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4476 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4477 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4478 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4479 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4480 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4481 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4482 the Exim test suite.
4484 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4485 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4486 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4487 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4489 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4490 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4491 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4492 specify it in this variable.
4494 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4495 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4496 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4497 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4499 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4500 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4501 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4502 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4504 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4505 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4506 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4507 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4508 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4510 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4512 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4515 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4516 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4517 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4518 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4519 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4521 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4522 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4524 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4525 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4526 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4527 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4528 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4530 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4531 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4533 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4534 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4535 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4537 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4538 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4540 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4541 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4543 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4544 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4545 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4547 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4548 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4550 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4551 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4552 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4553 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4555 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4557 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4558 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4559 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4560 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4562 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4564 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4565 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4567 25. Added .include_if_exists.
4569 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4570 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4571 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4572 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4573 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4574 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4576 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4578 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4579 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4582 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4584 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4585 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4587 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4588 550 Sender verify failed
4590 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4591 the final line of the response.
4593 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4594 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4595 all other user lookups.
4597 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4600 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4601 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4602 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4603 result into an int without checking.
4605 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4606 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4607 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4609 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4610 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4611 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4612 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4614 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4617 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4618 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4620 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4621 to the empty sender.
4623 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4624 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4625 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4626 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4627 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4628 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4629 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4632 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4633 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4634 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4635 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4638 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4639 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4641 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4644 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4645 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4647 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4649 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4650 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4653 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4654 as soon as it is encountered.
4656 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4658 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4661 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4662 recognizes a tab character.
4664 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4665 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4666 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4667 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4669 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4671 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4674 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4676 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4678 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4679 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4682 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4683 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4684 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4685 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4686 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4688 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4689 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4691 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4692 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4693 list (.included file names were always shown).
4695 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4696 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4697 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4700 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4701 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4703 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4705 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4707 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4709 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4710 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4711 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4712 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4713 failures to open the logs.
4715 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4716 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4717 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4718 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4719 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4720 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4721 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4727 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4728 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4729 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4732 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4733 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4734 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4736 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4737 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4738 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4740 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4741 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4742 causing some misleading effects.
4744 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4745 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4746 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4748 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4749 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4750 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4751 queue-runner function directly.
4757 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4760 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4761 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4762 was always written to the default place.
4764 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4765 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4766 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4768 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4770 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4772 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4773 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4774 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4776 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4777 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4780 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4781 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4782 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4784 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4785 command line option is disabled.
4787 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4788 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4790 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4792 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4794 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4795 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4797 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4799 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4800 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4801 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4802 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4803 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4804 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4806 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4807 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4810 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4811 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4813 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4814 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4816 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4817 received was valid base64.
4819 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4820 name of the variable that was being set.
4822 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4824 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4825 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4826 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4827 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4828 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4829 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4831 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4833 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4834 nor realm was specified.
4836 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4837 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4838 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4839 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4841 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4842 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4843 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4845 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4846 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4847 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4849 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4850 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4851 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4852 some systems use these upper case variants.
4854 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4855 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4856 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4857 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4859 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4861 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4862 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4864 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4865 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4868 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4870 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4871 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4872 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4873 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4875 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4878 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4879 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4880 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4882 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4883 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4885 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4886 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4887 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4888 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4890 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4891 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4892 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4894 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4896 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4897 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4898 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4899 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4902 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4903 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4904 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4906 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4908 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4909 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4911 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4912 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4914 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4915 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4916 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4917 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4918 when emails are that large.
4925 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4926 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4928 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4929 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4930 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4932 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4933 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4934 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4936 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4937 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4938 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4939 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4940 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4942 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4943 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4944 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4945 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4946 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4949 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4950 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4951 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4952 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4953 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4954 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4955 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4956 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4957 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4958 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4959 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4960 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4961 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4962 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4964 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4965 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4968 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4969 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4970 error should be diagnosed.
4972 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4973 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4974 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4975 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4976 appeared instead of "NULL".
4978 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4979 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4980 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4981 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4982 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4983 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4986 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4987 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4988 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4994 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4995 or receiver verification errors.
4997 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5000 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5001 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5002 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5003 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5005 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5006 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5007 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5008 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5009 shouldn't happen again.
5011 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5012 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5013 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5015 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5016 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5018 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5020 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5021 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5023 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5024 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5027 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5028 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5029 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5031 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5032 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5033 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5034 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5036 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5037 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5038 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5039 to define what should happen).
5041 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5042 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5043 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5045 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5047 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5049 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5050 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5052 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5053 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5054 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5055 structure in all cases.
5057 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5058 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5059 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5060 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5062 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5063 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5066 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5067 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5069 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5070 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5072 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5073 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5074 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5076 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5077 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5078 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5080 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5081 the book and for uniformity.
5083 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5085 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5086 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5087 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5088 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5089 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5090 non-existent command as the problem.
5092 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5093 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5094 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5096 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5098 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5099 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5100 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5102 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5103 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5104 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5105 timestamps using strftime().
5107 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5108 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5110 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5111 transport-time rewrites.
5113 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5114 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5115 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5116 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5118 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5119 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5121 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5122 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5123 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5124 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5127 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5128 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5129 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5130 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5131 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5132 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5133 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5135 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5136 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5137 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5138 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5139 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5141 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5142 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5143 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5144 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5145 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5146 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5147 remaining text gets split now.
5149 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5150 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5151 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5152 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5154 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5155 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5156 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5157 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5160 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5161 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5162 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5163 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5164 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5165 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5166 passed through if needed.
5168 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5169 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5170 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5171 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5172 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5173 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5175 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5176 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5177 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5178 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5179 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5181 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5182 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5183 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5184 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5185 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5187 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5188 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5191 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5192 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5193 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5194 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5195 mayhem of various kinds.
5197 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5198 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5199 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5200 the right test for positive values.
5202 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5203 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5204 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5205 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5206 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5207 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5208 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5209 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5210 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5211 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5214 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5217 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5218 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5221 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5222 the existing equality matching.
5224 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5225 dealing with inode numbers.
5227 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5228 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5229 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5231 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5232 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5233 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5234 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5237 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5238 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5239 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5240 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5241 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5242 relay addresses has also been removed.
5244 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5246 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5247 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5248 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5250 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5251 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5252 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5253 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5254 processing applies to CR:
5256 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5257 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5259 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5260 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5261 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5262 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5264 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5265 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5266 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5268 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5269 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5270 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5271 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5272 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5273 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5276 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5279 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5280 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5281 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5282 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5285 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5287 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5289 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5291 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5292 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5293 not considered personal.
5295 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5297 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5299 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5301 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5302 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5303 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5304 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5305 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5306 header lines, and spool format errors.
5308 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5309 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5310 for more flexibility.
5312 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5313 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5314 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5316 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5319 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5320 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5321 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5322 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5323 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5324 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5325 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5326 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5327 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5329 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5330 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5331 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5332 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5333 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5334 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5335 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5337 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5338 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5339 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5341 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5342 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5343 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5344 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5345 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5346 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5347 instead of killing the process with assert().
5349 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5350 than Unicode encoding.
5352 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5353 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5354 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5355 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5357 77. Added process_log_path.
5359 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5360 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5362 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5363 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5365 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5366 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5367 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5369 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5370 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5371 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5372 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5373 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5376 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5377 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5380 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5381 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5382 they will be used during message reception.
5388 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.