1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
9 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
12 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
15 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
19 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
21 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
27 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility.
29 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
35 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
36 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
37 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
39 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
41 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
44 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
46 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
48 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
50 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
51 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
53 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
54 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
56 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
57 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
59 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
60 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
61 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
63 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
65 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
66 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
68 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
70 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
72 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
73 non-compliant senders.
74 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
76 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
77 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
78 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
80 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
81 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
82 in spool file corruption.
84 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
85 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
86 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
89 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
90 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
91 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
93 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
94 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
96 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
98 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
100 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
102 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
103 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
104 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
106 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
107 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
108 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
109 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
111 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
112 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
114 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
115 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
116 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
117 resolver implementation change.
119 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
120 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
122 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
124 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
126 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
127 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
129 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
130 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
132 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
133 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
135 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
136 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
137 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
138 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
139 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
141 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
143 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
144 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
145 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
147 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
149 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
150 read-only, out of scope).
151 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
153 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
154 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
155 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
156 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
158 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
160 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
161 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
162 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
163 real issues in debug logging.
165 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
166 assignment on my part. Fixed.
168 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
169 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
170 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
172 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
173 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
174 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
177 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
178 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
180 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
181 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
182 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
183 needs to override this, it can.
185 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
186 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
187 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
189 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
190 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
191 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
192 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
194 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
200 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
201 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
203 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
205 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
208 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
209 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
211 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
212 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
213 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
215 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
216 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
217 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
218 not safe for signals.
220 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
221 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
222 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
223 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
226 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
228 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
229 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
230 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
231 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
232 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
234 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
235 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
236 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
237 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
238 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
239 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
241 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
242 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
243 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
244 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
246 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
247 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
248 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
249 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
251 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
252 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
253 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
254 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
255 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
256 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
257 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
258 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
259 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
261 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
262 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
263 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
264 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
266 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
267 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
268 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
269 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
270 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
271 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
272 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
273 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
274 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
275 details in the main documentation.
277 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
279 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
281 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
282 repository when doing development or release builds.
284 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
285 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
287 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
288 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
291 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
293 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
294 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
296 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
297 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
299 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
300 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
302 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
303 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
305 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
306 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
308 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
310 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
313 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
314 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
315 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
317 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
319 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
321 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
322 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
328 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
330 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
331 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
333 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
335 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
337 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
340 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
341 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
343 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
344 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
346 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
349 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
352 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
353 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
355 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
356 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
357 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
358 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
360 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
361 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
367 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
370 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
371 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
372 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
374 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
375 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
377 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
378 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
379 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
381 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
382 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
384 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
385 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
387 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
388 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
390 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
391 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
393 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
394 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
396 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
399 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
400 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
402 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
403 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
405 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
406 SQL string expansion failure details.
407 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
409 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
410 Patch from Simon Arlott.
412 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
413 extern declarations in function scope.
414 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
416 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
417 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
418 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
421 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
422 Patch from Mark Zealey.
424 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
425 Patch from Mark Zealey.
427 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
428 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
430 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
431 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
433 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
434 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
437 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
439 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
441 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
442 Patch by Simon Arlott
444 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
445 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
451 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
452 consequences so log it to the panic log.
454 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
455 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
457 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
459 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
460 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
461 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
463 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
464 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
465 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
467 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
468 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
469 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
470 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
472 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
473 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
474 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
475 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
477 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
478 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
479 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
482 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
485 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
486 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
487 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
488 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
489 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
495 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
496 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
497 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
499 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
500 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
502 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
504 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
506 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
508 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
510 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
512 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
513 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
514 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
515 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
517 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
518 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
519 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
520 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
521 more caution in buffer sizes.
523 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
525 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
527 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
529 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
531 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
533 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
535 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
537 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
538 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
539 ignore trailing whitespace.
541 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
543 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
546 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
547 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
549 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
550 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
551 Notification from John Horne.
553 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
556 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
557 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
560 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
563 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
564 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
565 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
567 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
568 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
569 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
572 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
573 option (effectively making it always true).
575 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
576 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
578 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
579 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
581 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
582 run-time user, instead of root.
584 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
585 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
587 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
588 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
591 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
592 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
593 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
595 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
597 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
603 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
604 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
607 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
608 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
611 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
612 Patch from Alain Williams
614 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
616 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
617 Patch from Andreas Metzler
619 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
620 Patch from Kirill Miazine
622 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
624 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
626 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
627 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
629 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
631 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
633 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
634 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
635 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
637 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
638 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
640 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
641 Patch by Simon Arlott
643 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
644 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
650 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
652 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
654 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
656 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
658 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
664 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
665 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
667 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
668 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
671 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
672 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
673 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
675 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
676 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
678 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
679 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
680 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
681 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
683 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
684 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
685 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
687 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
689 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
691 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
692 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
694 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
696 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
697 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
698 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
699 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
701 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
702 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
704 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
706 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
708 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
709 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
711 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
712 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
714 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
715 that they are available at delivery time.
717 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
719 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
720 incoming_port log selectors.
722 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
723 setting expands to an empty string.
725 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
726 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
728 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
729 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
731 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
732 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
734 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
735 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
737 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
738 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
740 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
741 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
743 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
745 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
746 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
748 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
749 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
751 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
753 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
754 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
756 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
758 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
760 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
763 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
764 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
766 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
767 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
769 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
770 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
772 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
773 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
775 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
776 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
778 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
779 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
781 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
782 plus update to original patch.
784 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
786 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
787 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
789 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
791 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
793 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
795 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
797 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
798 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
800 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
801 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
803 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
804 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
806 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
807 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
809 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
811 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
813 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
815 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
821 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
822 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
823 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
825 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
826 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
827 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
828 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
829 build errors in sieve.c.
831 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
832 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
833 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
835 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
837 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
839 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
841 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
847 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
849 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
850 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
851 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
852 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
853 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
854 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
855 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
856 for iplsearch lookups.
858 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
859 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
860 previously such lookups could never work.
862 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
863 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
864 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
866 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
869 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
870 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
871 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
872 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
873 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
874 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
876 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
877 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
879 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
880 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
881 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
882 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
883 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
884 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
886 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
889 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
891 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
892 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
895 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
896 by clients under certain conditions.
898 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
899 "_responses" off the end of the name.
901 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
903 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
904 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
906 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
908 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
910 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
912 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
913 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
915 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
917 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
918 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
920 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
922 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
924 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
925 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
926 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
927 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
929 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
930 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
931 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
933 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
934 and InterBase are left for another time.)
936 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
938 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
940 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
942 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
943 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
944 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
950 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
951 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
954 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
955 issue a MAIL command.
957 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
959 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
961 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
962 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
963 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
964 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
965 item. This has been fixed.
967 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
968 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
970 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
971 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
973 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
974 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
975 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
977 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
979 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
980 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
981 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
982 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
983 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
985 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
986 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
987 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
989 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
990 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
991 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
992 the server_setid option was incorrect.
994 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
996 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
998 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
999 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1000 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1001 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1002 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1004 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1006 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1007 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1008 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1011 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1013 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1015 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1017 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1019 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1021 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1022 no_callout_flush is set.
1024 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1025 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1026 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1029 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1031 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1032 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1033 other ACL rejections are.
1035 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1036 with slight modification.
1038 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1039 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1041 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1042 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1045 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1046 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1048 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1050 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1051 expansion side effects.
1053 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1054 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1055 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1058 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1059 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1060 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1062 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1063 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1064 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1065 were accidentally chopped off.
1067 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1068 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1069 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1070 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1071 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1072 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1073 pipelining has not been advertised.
1075 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1077 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1078 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1079 This has been fixed.
1081 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1082 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1083 reported on Solaris.
1085 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1086 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1087 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1088 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1089 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1090 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1091 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1093 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1096 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1098 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1100 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1101 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1102 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1103 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1104 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1105 criteria to be more general.
1107 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1108 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1109 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1110 host_all_ignored option.
1112 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1113 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1114 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1115 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1116 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1117 is what is supposed to happen).
1119 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1120 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1121 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1122 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1123 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1126 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1127 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1128 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1129 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1130 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1131 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1134 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1136 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1137 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1139 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1140 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1142 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1144 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1146 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1147 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1148 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1149 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1150 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1151 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1152 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1153 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1154 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1155 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1156 least in a lot of common cases.
1158 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1159 advertised in response to EHLO.
1165 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1166 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1168 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1169 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1171 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1172 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1173 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1175 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1176 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1177 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1178 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1179 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1185 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1186 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1189 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1190 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1191 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1193 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1194 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1195 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1196 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1197 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1198 rather than extend the field.
1204 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1205 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1206 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1207 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1210 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1211 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1212 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1214 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1215 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1216 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1218 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1219 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1220 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1223 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1224 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1225 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1226 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1227 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1228 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1229 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1230 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1231 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1232 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1233 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1235 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1238 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1239 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1240 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1241 ignores EPIPE as well.
1243 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1244 (quoted-printable decoding).
1246 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1247 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1249 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1251 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1253 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1255 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1256 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1258 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1261 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1262 miscellaneous code fixes
1264 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1267 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1268 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1269 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1270 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1271 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1272 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1273 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1274 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1276 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1277 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1278 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1279 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1281 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1282 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1283 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1284 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1285 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1286 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1287 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1288 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1289 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1291 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1294 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1295 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1296 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1297 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1298 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1299 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1300 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1301 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1303 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1304 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1307 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1308 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1309 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1310 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1311 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1312 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1313 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1314 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1315 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1316 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1317 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1318 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1319 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1321 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1322 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1323 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1324 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1325 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1326 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1327 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1329 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1330 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1331 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1332 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1333 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1334 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1335 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1336 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1337 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1338 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1340 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1341 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1342 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1343 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1344 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1346 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1347 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1348 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1349 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1350 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1351 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1352 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1354 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1355 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1356 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1357 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1358 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1359 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1362 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1363 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1364 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1367 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1368 if any retry times were supplied.
1370 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1371 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1372 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1374 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1376 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1378 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1379 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1380 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1381 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1382 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1383 before) are ignored.
1385 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1386 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1388 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1389 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1390 committing the later change.]
1392 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1393 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1394 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1395 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1396 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1397 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1398 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1399 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1400 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1402 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1403 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1404 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1405 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1406 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1407 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1408 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1409 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1410 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1412 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1413 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1414 hammering the server.
1416 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1417 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1419 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1421 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1422 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1423 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1425 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1426 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1427 one case where this was not true.
1429 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1430 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1431 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1432 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1435 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1436 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1437 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1438 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1439 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1440 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1441 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1442 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1443 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1446 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1447 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1448 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1449 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1451 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1452 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1454 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1455 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1456 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1458 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1460 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1462 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1464 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1465 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1466 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1467 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1469 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1470 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1472 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1473 be meaningful with "accept".
1475 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1476 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1478 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1479 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1480 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1482 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1483 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1484 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1485 there is data to show.
1486 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1488 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1489 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1490 as well as the number of messages.
1492 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1493 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1494 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1496 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1497 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1498 have a flag are now skipped.
1500 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1501 Added the -emptyok flag.
1503 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1504 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1506 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1507 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1508 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1510 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1513 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1514 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1516 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1518 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1519 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1521 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1523 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1524 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1525 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1526 contravention of the specifications.
1528 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1529 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1530 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1532 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1533 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1534 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1536 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1538 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1539 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1540 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1541 some point in the past.
1543 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1544 transport during callout processing was broken.
1546 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1547 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1549 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1550 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1552 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1553 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1555 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1561 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1562 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1564 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1565 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1566 there is data to show.
1567 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1569 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1570 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1572 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1573 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1575 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1576 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1578 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1579 submissions from trusted users.
1581 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1582 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1584 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1585 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1586 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1587 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1588 there is now a framework to start from.
1590 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1591 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1592 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1594 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1596 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1598 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1600 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1601 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1602 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1604 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1607 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1608 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1609 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1611 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1612 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1613 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1616 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1617 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1618 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1619 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1620 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1622 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1623 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1625 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1627 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1628 operations in malware.c.
1630 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1633 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1634 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1635 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1638 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1639 statements to "add_header".
1641 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1642 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1644 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1645 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1648 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1652 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1653 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1654 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1657 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1658 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1660 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1661 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1663 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1664 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1665 any possible encoding problems.
1667 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1668 but not after initializing Perl.
1670 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1671 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1672 apparently, which is not desirable.
1674 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1677 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1680 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1682 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1683 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1684 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1685 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1687 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1688 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1689 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1691 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1692 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1693 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1696 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1697 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1698 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1699 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1700 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1706 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1707 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1709 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1712 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1713 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1714 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1715 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1716 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1717 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1718 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1719 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1722 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1724 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1725 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1726 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1728 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1729 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1730 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1733 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1734 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1736 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1737 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1738 option (which defaults to 0600).
1740 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1742 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1743 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1744 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1745 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1746 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1747 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1748 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1750 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1756 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1757 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1758 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1759 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1760 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1761 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1764 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1765 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1767 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1769 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1770 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1771 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1772 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1773 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1776 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1777 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1779 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1780 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1781 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1782 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1783 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1785 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1786 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1787 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1788 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1790 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1791 be the same on different OS.
1793 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1796 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1797 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1799 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1802 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1803 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1804 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1805 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1806 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1807 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1810 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1811 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1812 when Exim was called.
1814 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1815 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1817 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1818 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1819 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1820 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1822 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1823 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1824 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1825 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1828 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1829 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1830 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1832 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1833 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1834 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1836 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1839 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1840 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1841 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1842 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1843 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1844 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1845 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1846 values from the SRV records were lost.
1848 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1849 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1850 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1852 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1853 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1854 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1856 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1857 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1858 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1859 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1860 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1861 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1862 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1863 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1864 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1865 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1867 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1868 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1869 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1871 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1872 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1874 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1875 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1876 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1877 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1880 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1881 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1882 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1884 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1885 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1886 PH/23 above applies.
1888 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1889 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1890 (for which there is an explicit test).
1892 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1894 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1895 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1896 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1897 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1898 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1900 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1901 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1902 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1903 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1905 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1906 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1907 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1909 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1911 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1913 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1914 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1915 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1917 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1918 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1919 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1920 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1921 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1923 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1924 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1925 the message gets confusing).
1927 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1928 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1929 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1930 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1932 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1933 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1934 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1935 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1938 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1939 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1940 the different processes.
1942 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1944 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1946 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1947 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1949 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1950 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1952 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1953 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1954 messages matching specified criteria.
1956 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1958 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1959 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1961 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1962 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1963 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1964 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1965 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1966 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1967 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1968 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1969 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1970 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1972 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1973 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1974 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1976 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1978 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1979 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1980 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1981 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1982 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1983 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1984 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1987 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1988 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1990 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1992 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1994 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1996 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1997 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1998 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1999 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2000 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2001 size of the count of files.
2003 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2005 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2008 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2009 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2010 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2011 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2013 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2014 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2015 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2017 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2018 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2019 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2020 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2021 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2023 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2024 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2026 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2027 will now be deprecated.
2029 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2031 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2032 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2033 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2035 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2036 with very large, slow to parse queues
2038 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2040 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2042 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2043 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2044 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2047 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2048 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2049 Sieve code now uses this.
2051 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2052 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2054 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2055 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2057 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2059 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2060 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2061 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2062 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2063 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2065 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2066 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2067 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2068 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2070 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2072 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2074 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2075 is preferred over IPv4.
2077 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2078 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2079 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2080 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2081 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2082 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2083 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2085 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2086 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2087 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2089 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2091 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2092 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2093 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2094 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2095 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2096 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2097 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2098 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2099 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2100 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2101 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2103 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2104 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2105 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2111 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2113 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2114 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2116 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2117 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2118 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2120 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2122 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2125 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2128 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2129 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2130 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2133 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2134 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2136 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2137 inside the third argument.
2139 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2140 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2143 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2144 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2146 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2147 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2149 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2151 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2152 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2155 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2157 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2158 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2159 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2160 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2161 identical. For example:
2163 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2165 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2166 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2167 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2169 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2170 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2171 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2172 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2174 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2175 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2176 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2179 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2181 o fixes some comments
2182 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2183 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2184 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2185 and documents the missing references header update
2189 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2190 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2193 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2194 Electronic Mail") by including:
2196 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2198 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2199 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2200 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2201 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2202 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2204 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2206 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2208 The auto-replied keyword:
2210 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2211 message by an automatic process,
2213 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2215 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2216 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2218 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2219 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2222 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2223 to the default Received: header definition.
2225 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2227 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2228 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2229 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2231 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2232 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2233 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2235 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2236 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2237 and treats the condition as false.
2239 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2241 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2242 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2243 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2244 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2245 not changing the active code.
2247 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2248 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2250 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2251 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2253 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2256 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2257 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2258 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2259 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2260 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2261 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2262 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2263 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2264 the text comparison.
2266 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2267 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2268 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2269 The same fix has been applied.
2275 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2276 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2279 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2280 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2282 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2284 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2285 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2286 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2287 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2288 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2290 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2291 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2292 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2293 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2296 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2304 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2305 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2307 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2309 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2311 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2312 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2313 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2315 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2316 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2317 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2319 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2320 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2323 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2324 ${stat: expansion item.
2326 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2327 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2329 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2330 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2333 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2335 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2338 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2339 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2341 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2343 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2344 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2345 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2346 the end of the subprocess.
2348 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2349 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2350 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2351 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2352 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2354 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2356 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2358 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2359 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2361 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2363 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2365 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2366 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2369 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2371 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2372 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2373 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2375 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2376 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2378 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2379 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2381 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2382 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2384 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2385 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2387 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2388 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2389 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2390 contributed by a Radius user.
2392 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2393 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2395 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2396 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2398 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2401 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2402 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2405 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2406 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2407 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2408 header lines when this was not necessary.
2410 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2412 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2413 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2414 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2417 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2420 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2421 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2422 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2423 return code was incorrect.
2425 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2427 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2429 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2431 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2433 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2434 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2435 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2436 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2437 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2440 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2442 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2443 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2444 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2445 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2446 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2447 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2448 which is clearly wrong.
2450 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2452 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2453 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2454 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2457 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2458 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2460 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2462 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2463 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2465 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2466 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2468 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2469 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2471 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2472 recipients, not senders.
2474 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2475 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2477 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2479 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2481 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2482 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2483 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2484 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2486 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2488 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2489 clock is set back in time.
2491 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2492 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2494 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2495 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2497 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2498 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2501 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2502 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2505 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2508 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2510 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2511 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2512 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2514 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2515 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2516 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2517 helo verification defer as a failure.
2519 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2520 actual error message.
2526 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2528 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2529 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2530 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2531 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2533 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2535 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2536 can still be requested.
2538 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2539 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2540 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2541 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2543 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2544 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2545 circumstances, but probably never did.
2547 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2548 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2549 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2552 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2554 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2555 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2557 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2559 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2561 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2562 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2563 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2564 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2565 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2566 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2568 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2569 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2570 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2571 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2572 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2573 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2575 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2576 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2578 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2579 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2581 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2582 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2584 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2586 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2588 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2590 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2592 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2594 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2596 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2598 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2599 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2600 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2602 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2603 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2604 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2605 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2607 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2608 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2609 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2611 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2612 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2613 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2614 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2616 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2617 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2620 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2621 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2622 should work with maildirs and everything.
2624 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2625 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2627 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2630 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2631 function for BDB 4.3.
2633 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2635 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2636 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2639 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2640 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2641 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2642 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2643 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2644 formatting function string_vformat().
2646 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2647 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2648 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2649 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2650 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2651 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2652 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2653 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2655 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2656 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2659 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2660 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2662 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2663 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2664 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2665 test. It is now used for both.
2667 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2668 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2669 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2670 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2671 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2672 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2674 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2675 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2676 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2679 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2680 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2681 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2683 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2684 experimental DomainKeys support:
2686 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2687 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2688 the control was given.
2690 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2692 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2694 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2696 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2697 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2698 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2701 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2702 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2703 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2704 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2705 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2706 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2709 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2710 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2711 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2712 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2713 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2714 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2716 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2717 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2718 do -d+all out of habit.
2720 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2721 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2724 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2725 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2726 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2727 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2728 record types that Exim uses.
2730 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2731 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2732 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2733 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2734 non-existent file that was broken.
2736 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2737 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2739 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2740 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2741 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2743 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2745 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2746 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2747 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2748 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2749 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2752 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2753 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2754 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2755 at a slight CPU cost.
2757 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2758 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2760 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2763 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2765 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2766 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2772 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2773 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2775 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2777 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2779 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2780 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2782 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2783 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2784 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2785 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2786 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2787 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2790 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2791 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2792 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2793 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2796 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2797 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2798 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2799 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2800 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2801 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2802 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2805 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2806 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2808 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2809 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2810 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2811 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2812 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2813 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2815 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2816 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2817 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2818 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2820 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2823 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2824 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2826 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2827 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2828 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2829 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2832 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2834 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2835 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2837 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2838 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2839 to what was transported.)
2841 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2843 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2844 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2845 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2846 spamd_address settings.
2848 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2849 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2850 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2851 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2852 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2854 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2856 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2857 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2858 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2859 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2860 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2862 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2863 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2865 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2866 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2867 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2868 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2869 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2870 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2871 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2874 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2875 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2876 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2877 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2878 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2879 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2880 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2883 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2885 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2886 driver and ACL definitions.
2888 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2889 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2891 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2892 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2893 understands it better than I do:
2895 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2896 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2898 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2899 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2900 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2901 => three warnings about OTP not working
2902 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2904 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2905 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2906 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2907 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2909 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2910 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2912 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2913 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2914 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2916 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2917 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2920 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2921 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2924 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2925 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2926 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2928 warn !verify = sender
2929 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2931 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2932 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2934 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2936 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2937 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2939 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2940 nomenclature these days.)
2942 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2943 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2945 PH/30 In these circumstances:
2946 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2947 . First host does not offer TLS;
2948 . First host accepts first address;
2949 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2950 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2951 . Second host accepts second address.
2952 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2953 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2956 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2957 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2958 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2959 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2960 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2962 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2963 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2965 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2966 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2968 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2969 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2970 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2972 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2973 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2976 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2978 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2979 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2980 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2981 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2982 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2983 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2984 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2986 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2987 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2988 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2989 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2990 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2992 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2993 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2996 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2997 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2998 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2999 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3000 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3001 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3003 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3005 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3006 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3007 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3008 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3009 printable escape sequences.
3011 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3012 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3015 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3016 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3019 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3020 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3021 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3022 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3023 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3025 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3026 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3027 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3029 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3031 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3032 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3035 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3036 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3037 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3038 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3039 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3040 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3041 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3042 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3043 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3046 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3047 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3048 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3049 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3053 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3054 ----------------------------------------
3056 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3057 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3058 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3059 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3060 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3061 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3064 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3065 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3066 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3067 historical information.
3073 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3075 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3076 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3078 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3079 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3082 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3083 filter fails to execute.
3085 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3086 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3087 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3088 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3089 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3091 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3093 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3094 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3095 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3096 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3098 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3099 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3100 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3101 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3102 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3104 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3106 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3108 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3109 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3110 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3111 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3113 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3114 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3115 sender verification.
3117 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3118 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3120 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3122 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3125 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3126 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3128 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3129 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3131 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3132 information about exactly what failed.
3134 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3136 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3137 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3138 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3140 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3141 It is now set to "smtps".
3143 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3144 ignore_target_hosts.
3146 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3147 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3148 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3149 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3152 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3153 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3154 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3156 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3157 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3158 wake it up if nothing else does.
3160 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3161 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3162 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3165 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3166 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3168 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3170 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3171 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3172 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3173 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3174 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3175 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3176 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3177 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3179 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3180 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3181 than one IP address.
3183 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3184 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3185 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3186 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3188 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3189 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3190 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3191 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3192 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3195 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3196 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3197 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3198 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3200 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3201 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3204 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3205 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3206 $sender_host_address.
3208 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3209 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3210 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3211 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3212 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3215 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3217 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3218 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3220 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3221 just the host names, not the priorities.
3223 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3224 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3225 controlled by a keyword.
3227 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3228 multiple records are returned.
3230 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3231 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3234 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3236 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3237 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3239 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3240 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3241 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3243 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3245 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3247 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3249 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3250 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3251 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3252 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3253 because the tests only now provoked it.
3255 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3256 (this can affect the format of dates).
3258 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3259 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3260 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3261 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3263 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3265 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3266 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3267 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3268 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3270 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3271 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3272 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3274 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3277 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3278 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3279 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3280 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3281 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3282 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3285 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3286 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3287 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3290 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3291 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3292 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3294 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3295 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3296 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3297 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3298 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3299 so I produce this patch..."
3301 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3302 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3305 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3306 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3307 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3308 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3311 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3313 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3314 long debug lines gets shown.
3316 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3317 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3319 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3321 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3322 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3323 of $primary_hostname.
3325 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3326 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3327 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3328 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3329 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3330 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3331 by change 4.50/55 above.
3333 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3334 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3335 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3336 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3337 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3338 running as the user.
3341 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3342 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3343 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3346 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3347 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3349 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3350 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3351 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3352 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3353 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3355 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3356 This has been fixed.
3358 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3359 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3360 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3361 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3364 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3366 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3367 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3368 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3369 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3371 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3372 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3374 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3375 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3376 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3378 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3379 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3380 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3383 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3384 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3385 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3387 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3388 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3389 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3390 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3392 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3393 during host lookups.
3395 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3396 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3398 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3400 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3401 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3402 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3403 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3404 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3407 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3408 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3410 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3411 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3412 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3414 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3416 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3417 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3418 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3419 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3420 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3421 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3424 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3425 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3426 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3427 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3428 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3430 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3433 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3435 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3436 "vacation" handling.
3438 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3439 OS variants using glibc.
3441 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3444 ----------------------------------------------------
3445 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3446 ----------------------------------------------------
3452 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3453 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3456 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3457 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3460 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3461 filter fails to execute.
3463 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3464 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3465 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3466 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3467 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3469 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3470 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3471 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3472 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3474 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3475 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3476 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3477 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3478 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3480 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3482 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3483 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3484 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3485 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3487 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3488 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3489 sender verification.
3491 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3492 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3494 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3495 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3497 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3498 ignore_target_hosts.
3500 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3501 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3502 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3503 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3506 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3507 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3508 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3510 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3511 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3512 wake it up if nothing else does.
3514 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3515 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3516 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3519 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3520 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3522 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3524 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3525 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3528 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3529 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3532 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3533 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3534 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3535 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3536 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3539 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3540 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3543 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3544 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3545 $sender_host_address.
3547 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3549 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3550 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3551 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3553 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3556 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3557 (this can affect the format of dates).
3559 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3560 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3561 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3562 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3564 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3565 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3566 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3568 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3569 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3570 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3571 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3573 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3574 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3575 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3577 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3580 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3581 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3582 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3583 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3584 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3585 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3588 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3589 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3590 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3591 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3594 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3595 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3596 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3597 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3598 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3599 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3600 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3602 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3603 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3604 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3605 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3606 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3607 running as the user.
3610 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3611 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3612 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3615 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3616 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3617 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3618 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3619 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3621 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3622 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3623 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3624 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3627 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3628 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3629 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3630 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3631 because the tests only now provoked it.
3637 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3638 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3639 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3640 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3641 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3642 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3643 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3645 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3646 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3649 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3651 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3653 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3654 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3657 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3658 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3659 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3660 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3661 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3663 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3664 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3666 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3668 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3670 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3673 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3674 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3676 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3677 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3678 affecting debugging statements).
3680 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3682 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3683 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3684 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3685 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3686 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3687 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3688 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3689 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3690 after the received time, and all would be well.
3692 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3693 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3694 condition in an expansion string.
3696 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3698 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3699 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3700 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3701 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3702 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3703 job under whatever limits there are.
3705 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3707 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3710 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3711 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3712 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3713 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3716 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3717 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3718 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3719 binary data in such strings.
3721 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3723 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3724 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3725 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3726 failure, which is pointless.
3728 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3730 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3732 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3733 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3734 Sender: header lines.
3736 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3737 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3738 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3740 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3741 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3742 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3743 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3744 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3747 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3748 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3749 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3750 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3751 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3753 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3754 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3755 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3758 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3759 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3761 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3762 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3764 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3766 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3768 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3770 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3773 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3775 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3777 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3778 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3779 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3780 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3782 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3783 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3789 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3790 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3791 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3793 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3794 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3795 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3796 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3797 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3798 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3800 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3801 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3802 verification failure".
3804 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3805 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3806 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3807 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3809 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3810 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3811 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3812 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3813 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3814 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3815 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3816 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3817 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3818 treated as a timeout.
3820 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3821 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3822 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3823 not set for Exim filters).
3825 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3826 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3827 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3829 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3831 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3832 try to make them clearer.
3834 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3835 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3837 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3839 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3841 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3842 only the Cygwin environment.
3844 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3845 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3846 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3847 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3848 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3850 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3851 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3852 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3853 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3854 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3855 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3856 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3858 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3859 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3861 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3863 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3864 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3865 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3867 To: susanne@some.where
3869 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3870 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3871 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3872 of addresses in From: header lines).
3874 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3875 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3876 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3878 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3879 treated as non-personal.
3881 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3882 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3884 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3886 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3888 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3889 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3890 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3892 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3893 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3895 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3896 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3897 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3898 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3899 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3900 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3902 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3903 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3904 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3905 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3906 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3907 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3908 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3909 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3911 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3913 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3914 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3916 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3917 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3918 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3920 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3921 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3923 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3924 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3925 rather than long int.
3927 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3929 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3935 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3936 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3937 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3938 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3939 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3940 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3946 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3947 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3949 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3950 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3951 socklen_t is defined.
3953 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3956 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3959 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3960 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3961 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3962 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3963 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3965 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3966 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3967 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3968 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3970 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3971 of flapping under certain conditions.
3973 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3974 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3975 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3977 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3979 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3981 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3982 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3983 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3984 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3986 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3987 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3988 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3989 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3990 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3991 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3992 preserved with the message after it was received.
3994 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3995 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3996 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3997 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3998 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3999 test suite worked just fine.
4001 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4002 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4003 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4005 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4006 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4009 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4010 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4011 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4012 does not fully solve it.
4014 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4015 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4016 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4017 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4018 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4020 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4021 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4022 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4024 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4025 string, for example:
4027 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4029 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4030 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4031 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4032 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4033 the routers could not see them.
4035 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4036 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4038 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4039 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4042 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4043 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4044 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4045 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4046 that needed quoting.
4048 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4049 was not being matched caselessly.
4051 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4054 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4055 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4056 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4057 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4058 when use_sender is false.
4060 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4062 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4064 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4066 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4067 the configuration file.
4069 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4070 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4072 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4074 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4075 bytes in the message body.
4077 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4078 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4081 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4083 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4085 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4086 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4087 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4088 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4095 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4096 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4098 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4099 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4100 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4101 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4102 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4104 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4105 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4107 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4108 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4109 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4111 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4112 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4113 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4115 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4118 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4119 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4120 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4121 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4122 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4123 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4124 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4130 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4131 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4132 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4133 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4134 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4135 default (and expected) setting.
4137 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4138 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4139 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4140 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4142 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4143 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4145 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4148 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4149 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4150 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4151 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4152 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4153 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4155 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4156 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4157 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4159 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4160 part (NOT match_host).
4162 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4164 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4165 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4166 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4167 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4168 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4169 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4170 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4171 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4172 the same named file.
4174 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4175 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4178 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4179 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4180 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4181 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4184 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4185 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4186 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4188 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4190 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4192 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4194 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4195 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4197 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4198 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4199 before starting the TLS session.
4201 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4203 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4204 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4206 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4207 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4208 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4209 colon in the middle).
4215 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4216 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4217 multiple configurations are in use.
4219 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4220 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4221 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4222 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4223 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4224 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4226 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4227 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4229 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4230 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4231 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4233 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4234 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4237 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4238 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4240 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4242 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4243 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4245 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4253 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4254 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4255 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4256 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4257 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4259 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4262 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4263 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4264 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4265 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4266 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4267 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4269 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4270 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4271 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4272 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4273 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4274 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4275 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4278 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4279 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4280 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4281 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4282 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4284 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4286 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4287 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4288 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4290 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4292 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4293 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4294 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4297 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4298 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4300 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4301 Three changes have been made:
4303 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4304 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4305 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4306 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4307 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4309 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4312 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4313 the modified behaviour.
4319 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4322 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4323 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4325 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4326 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4327 try to track down a specific problem.
4329 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4330 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4331 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4333 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4336 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4337 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4338 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4339 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4340 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4341 some earlier ones do not.
4343 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4345 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4346 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4347 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4348 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4349 address literals are enabled, of course).
4351 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4353 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4354 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4355 by a command such as
4359 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4361 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4363 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4364 remained set. It is now erased.
4366 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4367 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4369 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4370 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4371 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4372 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4373 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4374 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4375 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4376 appropriate error code.
4378 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4379 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4380 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4381 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4382 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4383 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4385 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4386 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4387 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4389 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4390 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4391 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4392 terminate the header.
4394 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4395 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4396 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4398 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4399 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4400 (4.30/29). In particular:
4402 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4405 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4406 to write a maildirsize file.
4408 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4409 the transport, the new value overrides.
4411 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4414 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4415 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4416 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4419 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4420 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4421 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4424 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4425 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4426 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4428 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4429 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4432 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4433 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4434 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4436 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4438 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4440 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4442 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4443 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4446 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4447 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4448 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4449 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4450 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4451 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4452 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4455 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4456 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4457 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4458 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4459 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4462 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4463 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4464 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4465 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4466 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4467 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4468 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4469 cached value only when the same options are set.
4471 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4473 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4474 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4475 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4476 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4477 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4479 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4480 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4481 it is clearly obsolete.
4483 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4486 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4487 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4488 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4491 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4492 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4493 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4494 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4495 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4497 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4498 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4499 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4500 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4502 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4504 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4506 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4507 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4510 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4511 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4512 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4513 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4514 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4515 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4518 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4519 with the -f command-line option.
4521 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4522 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4523 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4524 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4525 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4526 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4528 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4529 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4532 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4533 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4534 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4535 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4536 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4537 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4538 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4539 buffer is too small.
4541 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4542 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4544 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4545 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4546 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4547 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4548 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4549 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4550 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4551 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4552 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4554 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4555 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4556 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4558 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4559 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4562 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4563 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4564 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4565 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4566 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4568 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4569 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4570 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4571 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4574 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4576 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4578 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4579 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4581 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4582 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4583 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4585 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4586 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4587 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4588 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4589 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4591 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4592 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4593 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4594 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4595 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4596 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4597 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4599 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4600 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4601 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4602 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4603 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4604 the test of how many are available.
4606 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4607 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4608 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4609 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4610 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4611 new message is started.
4613 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4614 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4616 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4617 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4619 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4620 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4621 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4624 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4625 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4626 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4627 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4628 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4629 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4630 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4632 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4633 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4634 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4635 interpreted as octal.
4637 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4640 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4641 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4642 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4643 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4644 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4645 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4647 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4648 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4649 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4650 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4652 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4653 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4654 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4655 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4657 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4658 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4661 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4662 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4664 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4666 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4667 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4668 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4669 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4671 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4672 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4673 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4674 supplied", which is not helpful.
4676 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4677 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4678 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4680 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4681 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4682 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4683 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4684 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4685 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4686 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4687 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4689 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4690 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4691 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4692 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4693 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4695 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4696 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4697 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4698 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4699 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4700 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4702 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4703 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4704 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4706 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4708 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4709 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4710 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4713 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4715 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4716 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4717 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4718 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4719 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4720 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4721 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4722 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4724 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4725 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4726 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4727 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4728 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4730 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4733 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4734 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4735 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4736 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4737 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4738 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4739 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4740 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4741 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4747 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4748 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4749 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4751 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4754 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4755 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4756 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4758 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4759 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4760 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4761 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4762 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4763 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4765 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4766 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4767 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4768 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4769 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4770 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4771 the Exim test suite.
4773 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4774 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4775 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4776 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4778 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4779 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4780 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4781 specify it in this variable.
4783 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4784 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4785 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4786 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4788 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4789 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4790 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4791 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4793 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4794 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4795 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4796 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4797 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4799 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4801 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4804 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4805 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4806 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4807 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4808 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4810 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4811 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4813 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4814 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4815 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4816 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4817 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4819 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4820 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4822 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4823 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4824 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4826 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4827 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4829 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4830 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4832 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4833 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4834 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4836 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4837 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4839 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4840 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4841 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4842 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4844 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4846 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4847 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4848 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4849 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4851 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4853 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4854 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4856 25. Added .include_if_exists.
4858 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4859 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4860 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4861 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4862 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4863 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4865 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4867 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4868 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4871 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4873 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4874 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4876 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4877 550 Sender verify failed
4879 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4880 the final line of the response.
4882 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4883 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4884 all other user lookups.
4886 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4889 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4890 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4891 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4892 result into an int without checking.
4894 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4895 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4896 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4898 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4899 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4900 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4901 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4903 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4906 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4907 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4909 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4910 to the empty sender.
4912 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4913 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4914 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4915 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4916 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4917 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4918 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4921 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4922 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4923 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4924 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4927 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4928 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4930 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4933 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4934 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4936 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4938 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4939 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4942 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4943 as soon as it is encountered.
4945 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4947 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4950 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4951 recognizes a tab character.
4953 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4954 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4955 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4956 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4958 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4960 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4963 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4965 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4967 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4968 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4971 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4972 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4973 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4974 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4975 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4977 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4978 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4980 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4981 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4982 list (.included file names were always shown).
4984 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4985 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4986 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4989 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4990 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4992 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4994 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4996 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4998 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4999 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5000 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5001 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5002 failures to open the logs.
5004 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5005 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5006 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5007 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5008 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5009 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5010 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5016 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5017 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5018 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5021 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5022 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5023 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5025 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5026 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5027 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5029 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5030 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5031 causing some misleading effects.
5033 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5034 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5035 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5037 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5038 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5039 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5040 queue-runner function directly.
5046 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5049 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5050 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5051 was always written to the default place.
5053 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5054 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5055 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5057 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5059 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5061 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5062 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5063 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5065 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5066 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5069 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5070 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5071 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5073 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5074 command line option is disabled.
5076 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5077 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5079 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5081 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5083 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5084 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5086 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5088 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5089 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5090 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5091 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5092 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5093 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5095 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5096 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5099 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5100 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5102 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5103 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5105 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5106 received was valid base64.
5108 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5109 name of the variable that was being set.
5111 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5113 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5114 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5115 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5116 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5117 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5118 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5120 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5122 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5123 nor realm was specified.
5125 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5126 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5127 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5128 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5130 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5131 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5132 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5134 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5135 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5136 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5138 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5139 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5140 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5141 some systems use these upper case variants.
5143 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5144 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5145 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5146 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5148 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5150 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5151 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5153 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5154 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5157 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5159 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5160 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5161 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5162 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5164 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5167 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5168 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5169 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5171 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5172 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5174 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5175 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5176 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5177 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5179 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5180 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5181 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5183 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5185 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5186 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5187 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5188 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5191 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5192 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5193 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5195 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5197 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5198 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5200 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5201 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5203 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5204 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5205 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5206 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5207 when emails are that large.
5214 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5215 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5217 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5218 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5219 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5221 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5222 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5223 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5225 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5226 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5227 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5228 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5229 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5231 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5232 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5233 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5234 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5235 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5238 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5239 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5240 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5241 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5242 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5243 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5244 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5245 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5246 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5247 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5248 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5249 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5250 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5251 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5253 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5254 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5257 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5258 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5259 error should be diagnosed.
5261 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5262 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5263 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5264 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5265 appeared instead of "NULL".
5267 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5268 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5269 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5270 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5271 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5272 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5275 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5276 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5277 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5283 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5284 or receiver verification errors.
5286 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5289 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5290 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5291 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5292 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5294 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5295 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5296 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5297 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5298 shouldn't happen again.
5300 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5301 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5302 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5304 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5305 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5307 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5309 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5310 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5312 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5313 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5316 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5317 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5318 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5320 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5321 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5322 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5323 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5325 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5326 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5327 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5328 to define what should happen).
5330 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5331 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5332 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5334 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5336 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5338 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5339 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5341 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5342 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5343 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5344 structure in all cases.
5346 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5347 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5348 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5349 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5351 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5352 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5355 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5356 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5358 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5359 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5361 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5362 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5363 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5365 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5366 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5367 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5369 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5370 the book and for uniformity.
5372 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5374 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5375 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5376 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5377 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5378 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5379 non-existent command as the problem.
5381 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5382 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5383 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5385 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5387 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5388 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5389 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5391 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5392 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5393 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5394 timestamps using strftime().
5396 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5397 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5399 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5400 transport-time rewrites.
5402 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5403 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5404 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5405 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5407 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5408 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5410 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5411 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5412 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5413 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5416 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5417 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5418 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5419 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5420 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5421 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5422 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5424 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5425 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5426 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5427 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5428 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5430 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5431 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5432 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5433 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5434 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5435 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5436 remaining text gets split now.
5438 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5439 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5440 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5441 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5443 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5444 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5445 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5446 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5449 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5450 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5451 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5452 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5453 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5454 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5455 passed through if needed.
5457 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5458 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5459 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5460 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5461 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5462 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5464 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5465 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5466 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5467 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5468 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5470 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5471 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5472 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5473 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5474 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5476 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5477 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5480 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5481 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5482 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5483 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5484 mayhem of various kinds.
5486 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5487 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5488 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5489 the right test for positive values.
5491 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5492 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5493 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5494 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5495 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5496 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5497 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5498 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5499 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5500 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5503 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5506 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5507 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5510 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5511 the existing equality matching.
5513 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5514 dealing with inode numbers.
5516 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5517 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5518 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5520 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5521 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5522 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5523 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5526 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5527 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5528 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5529 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5530 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5531 relay addresses has also been removed.
5533 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5535 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5536 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5537 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5539 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5540 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5541 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5542 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5543 processing applies to CR:
5545 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5546 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5548 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5549 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5550 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5551 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5553 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5554 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5555 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5557 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5558 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5559 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5560 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5561 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5562 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5565 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5568 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5569 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5570 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5571 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5574 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5576 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5578 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5580 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5581 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5582 not considered personal.
5584 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5586 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5588 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5590 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5591 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5592 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5593 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5594 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5595 header lines, and spool format errors.
5597 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5598 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5599 for more flexibility.
5601 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5602 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5603 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5605 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5608 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5609 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5610 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5611 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5612 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5613 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5614 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5615 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5616 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5618 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5619 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5620 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5621 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5622 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5623 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5624 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5626 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5627 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5628 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5630 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5631 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5632 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5633 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5634 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5635 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5636 instead of killing the process with assert().
5638 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5639 than Unicode encoding.
5641 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5642 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5643 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5644 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5646 77. Added process_log_path.
5648 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5649 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5651 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5652 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5654 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5655 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5656 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5658 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5659 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5660 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5661 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5662 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5665 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5666 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5669 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5670 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5671 they will be used during message reception.
5677 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.