1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.302 2006/02/14 15:56:43 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
10 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
11 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
12 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
13 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
14 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
17 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
18 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
20 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
22 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
23 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
24 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
25 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
26 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
29 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
30 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
32 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
33 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
34 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
35 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
36 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
38 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
39 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
40 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
41 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
43 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
44 be the same on different OS.
46 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
49 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
50 whether --show-vars was specified or not
52 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
55 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
56 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
57 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
58 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
59 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
60 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
63 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
64 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
67 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
68 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
70 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
71 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
72 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
73 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
75 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
76 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
77 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
78 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
81 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
82 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
83 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
85 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
86 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
87 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
89 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
92 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
93 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
94 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
95 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
96 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
97 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
98 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
99 values from the SRV records were lost.
101 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
102 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
103 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
105 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
106 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
107 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
109 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
110 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
111 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
112 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
113 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
114 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
115 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
116 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
117 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
119 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
120 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
121 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
123 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
124 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
126 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
127 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
128 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
129 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
132 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
133 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
134 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
136 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
137 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
140 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
141 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
142 (for which there is an explicit test).
144 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
146 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
147 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
148 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
149 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
150 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
152 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
153 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
154 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
155 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
157 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
158 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
159 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
161 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
163 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
165 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
166 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
167 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
169 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
170 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
171 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
172 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
173 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
175 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
176 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
177 the message gets confusing).
183 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
185 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
186 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
188 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
189 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
190 statements are most likely to be submissions.
192 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
194 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
197 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
200 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
201 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
202 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
205 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
206 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
208 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
209 inside the third argument.
211 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
212 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
215 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
216 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
218 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
219 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
221 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
223 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
224 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
227 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
229 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
230 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
231 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
232 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
233 identical. For example:
235 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
237 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
238 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
239 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
241 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
242 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
243 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
244 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
246 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
247 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
248 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
251 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
253 o fixes some comments
254 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
255 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
256 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
257 and documents the missing references header update
261 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
262 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
265 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
266 Electronic Mail") by including:
268 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
270 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
271 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
272 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
273 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
274 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
276 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
278 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
280 The auto-replied keyword:
282 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
283 message by an automatic process,
285 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
287 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
288 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
290 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
291 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
294 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
295 to the default Received: header definition.
297 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
299 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
300 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
301 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
303 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
304 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
305 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
307 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
308 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
309 and treats the condition as false.
311 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
313 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
314 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
315 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
316 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
317 not changing the active code.
319 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
320 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
322 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
323 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
325 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
328 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
329 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
330 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
331 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
332 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
333 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
334 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
335 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
338 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
339 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
340 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
341 The same fix has been applied.
347 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
348 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
351 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
352 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
354 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
356 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
357 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
358 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
359 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
360 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
362 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
363 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
364 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
365 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
368 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
376 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
377 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
379 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
381 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
383 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
384 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
385 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
387 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
388 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
389 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
391 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
392 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
395 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
396 ${stat: expansion item.
398 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
399 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
401 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
402 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
405 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
407 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
410 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
411 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
413 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
415 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
416 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
417 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
418 the end of the subprocess.
420 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
421 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
422 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
423 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
424 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
426 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
428 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
430 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
431 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
433 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
435 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
437 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
438 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
441 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
443 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
444 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
445 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
447 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
448 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
450 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
451 host errors such as "Connection refused".
453 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
454 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
456 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
457 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
459 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
460 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
461 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
462 contributed by a Radius user.
464 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
465 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
467 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
468 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
470 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
473 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
474 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
477 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
478 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
479 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
480 header lines when this was not necessary.
482 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
484 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
485 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
486 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
489 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
492 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
493 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
494 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
495 return code was incorrect.
497 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
499 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
501 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
503 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
505 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
506 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
507 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
508 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
509 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
512 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
514 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
515 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
516 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
517 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
518 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
519 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
520 which is clearly wrong.
522 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
524 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
525 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
526 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
529 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
530 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
532 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
534 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
535 the "build-* directories that it finds.
537 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
538 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
540 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
541 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
543 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
544 recipients, not senders.
546 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
547 the ratelimit ACL was added.
549 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
551 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
553 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
554 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
555 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
556 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
558 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
560 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
561 clock is set back in time.
563 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
564 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
566 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
567 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
569 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
570 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
573 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
574 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
577 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
580 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
582 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
583 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
584 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
586 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
587 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
588 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
589 helo verification defer as a failure.
591 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
592 actual error message.
598 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
600 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
601 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
602 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
603 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
605 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
607 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
608 can still be requested.
610 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
611 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
612 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
613 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
615 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
616 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
617 circumstances, but probably never did.
619 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
620 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
621 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
624 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
626 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
627 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
629 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
631 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
633 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
634 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
635 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
636 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
637 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
638 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
640 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
641 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
642 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
643 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
644 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
645 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
647 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
648 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
650 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
651 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
653 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
654 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
656 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
658 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
660 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
662 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
664 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
666 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
668 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
670 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
671 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
672 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
674 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
675 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
676 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
677 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
679 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
680 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
681 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
683 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
684 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
685 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
686 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
688 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
689 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
692 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
693 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
694 should work with maildirs and everything.
696 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
697 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
699 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
702 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
703 function for BDB 4.3.
705 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
707 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
708 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
711 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
712 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
713 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
714 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
715 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
716 formatting function string_vformat().
718 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
719 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
720 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
721 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
722 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
723 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
724 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
725 falls back to the previous guessing code."
727 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
728 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
731 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
732 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
734 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
735 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
736 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
737 test. It is now used for both.
739 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
740 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
741 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
742 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
743 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
744 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
746 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
747 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
748 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
751 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
752 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
753 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
755 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
756 experimental DomainKeys support:
758 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
759 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
760 the control was given.
762 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
764 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
766 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
768 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
769 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
770 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
773 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
774 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
775 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
776 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
777 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
778 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
781 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
782 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
783 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
784 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
785 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
786 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
788 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
789 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
790 do -d+all out of habit.
792 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
793 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
796 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
797 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
798 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
799 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
800 record types that Exim uses.
802 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
803 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
804 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
805 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
806 non-existent file that was broken.
808 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
809 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
811 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
812 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
813 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
815 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
817 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
818 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
819 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
820 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
821 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
824 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
825 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
826 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
827 at a slight CPU cost.
829 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
830 as requested by Marc Sherman.
832 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
835 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
837 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
838 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
844 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
845 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
847 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
849 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
851 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
852 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
854 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
855 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
856 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
857 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
858 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
859 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
862 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
863 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
864 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
865 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
868 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
869 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
870 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
871 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
872 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
873 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
874 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
877 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
878 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
880 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
881 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
882 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
883 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
884 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
885 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
887 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
888 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
889 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
890 SMTP commands that take arguments.
892 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
895 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
896 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
898 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
899 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
900 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
901 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
904 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
906 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
907 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
909 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
910 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
911 to what was transported.)
913 TF/01 Added $received_time.
915 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
916 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
917 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
918 spamd_address settings.
920 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
921 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
922 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
923 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
924 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
926 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
928 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
929 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
930 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
931 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
932 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
934 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
935 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
937 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
938 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
939 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
940 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
941 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
942 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
943 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
946 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
947 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
948 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
949 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
950 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
951 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
952 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
955 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
957 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
958 driver and ACL definitions.
960 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
961 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
963 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
964 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
965 understands it better than I do:
967 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
968 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
970 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
971 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
972 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
973 => three warnings about OTP not working
974 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
976 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
977 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
978 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
979 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
981 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
982 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
984 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
985 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
986 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
988 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
989 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
992 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
993 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
996 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
997 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
998 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1000 warn !verify = sender
1001 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1003 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1004 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1006 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1008 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1009 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1011 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1012 nomenclature these days.)
1014 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1015 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1017 PH/30 In these circumstances:
1018 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1019 . First host does not offer TLS;
1020 . First host accepts first address;
1021 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1022 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1023 . Second host accepts second address.
1024 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1025 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1028 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1029 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1030 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1031 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1032 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1034 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1035 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1037 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1038 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
1040 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1041 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1042 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1044 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1045 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1048 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1050 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1051 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1052 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1053 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1054 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1055 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1056 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1058 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1059 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1060 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1061 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1062 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1064 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1065 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1068 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1069 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1070 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1071 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1072 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1073 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1075 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1077 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1078 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1079 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1080 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1081 printable escape sequences.
1083 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1084 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1087 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1088 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1091 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1092 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1093 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1094 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1095 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1097 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1098 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1099 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1101 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1103 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1104 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1107 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1108 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1109 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1110 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1111 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1112 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1113 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1114 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1115 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1118 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1119 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1120 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1121 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1125 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1126 ----------------------------------------
1128 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1129 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1130 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1131 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1132 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1133 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1136 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
1137 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1138 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1139 historical information.
1145 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1147 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
1148 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
1150 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1151 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1154 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1155 filter fails to execute.
1157 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1158 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1159 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1160 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1161 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1163 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1165 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1166 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1167 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1168 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1170 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1171 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1172 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1173 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1174 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1176 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1178 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1180 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1181 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1182 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1183 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1185 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1186 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1187 sender verification.
1189 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1190 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1192 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1194 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1197 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1198 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1200 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1201 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1203 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1204 information about exactly what failed.
1206 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1208 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1209 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1210 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1212 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1213 It is now set to "smtps".
1215 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1216 ignore_target_hosts.
1218 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1219 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1220 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1221 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1224 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1225 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1226 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1228 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1229 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1230 wake it up if nothing else does.
1232 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1233 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1234 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1237 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1238 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1240 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1242 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1243 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1244 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1245 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1246 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1247 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1248 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1249 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1251 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1252 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1253 than one IP address.
1255 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1256 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1257 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1258 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1260 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1261 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1262 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1263 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1264 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1267 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1268 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
1269 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
1270 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
1272 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1273 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1276 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1277 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1278 $sender_host_address.
1280 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
1281 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
1282 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
1283 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
1284 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
1287 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
1289 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
1290 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
1292 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
1293 just the host names, not the priorities.
1295 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
1296 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
1297 controlled by a keyword.
1299 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
1300 multiple records are returned.
1302 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
1303 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
1306 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
1308 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
1309 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
1311 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1312 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1313 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1315 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
1317 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
1319 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
1321 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1322 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1323 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1324 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1325 because the tests only now provoked it.
1327 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1328 (this can affect the format of dates).
1330 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1331 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1332 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1333 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1335 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
1337 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1338 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1339 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1340 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1342 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1343 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1344 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1346 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1349 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1350 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1351 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1352 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1353 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1354 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1357 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
1358 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
1359 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
1362 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
1363 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
1364 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
1366 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
1367 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
1368 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
1369 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
1370 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
1371 so I produce this patch..."
1373 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
1374 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
1377 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1378 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1379 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1380 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1383 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
1385 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
1386 long debug lines gets shown.
1388 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
1389 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
1391 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
1393 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
1394 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
1395 of $primary_hostname.
1397 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1398 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1399 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1400 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1401 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1402 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1403 by change 4.50/55 above.
1405 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1406 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1407 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1408 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1409 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1410 running as the user.
1413 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1414 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1415 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1418 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
1419 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
1421 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1422 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1423 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1424 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1425 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1427 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
1428 This has been fixed.
1430 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1431 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1432 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1433 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1436 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
1438 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
1439 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
1440 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
1441 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
1443 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
1444 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
1446 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
1447 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
1448 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
1450 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
1451 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
1452 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
1455 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
1456 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
1457 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
1459 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
1460 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1461 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1462 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1464 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1465 during host lookups.
1467 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1468 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1470 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1472 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1473 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1474 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1475 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1476 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1479 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1480 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1482 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1483 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1484 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1486 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1488 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1489 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1490 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1491 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1492 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1493 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1496 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1497 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1498 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1499 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1500 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1502 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1505 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1507 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1508 "vacation" handling.
1510 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1511 OS variants using glibc.
1513 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1516 ----------------------------------------------------
1517 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1518 ----------------------------------------------------
1524 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1525 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1528 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1529 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1532 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1533 filter fails to execute.
1535 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1536 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1537 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1538 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1539 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1541 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1542 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1543 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1544 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1546 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1547 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1548 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1549 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1550 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1552 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1554 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1555 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1556 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1557 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1559 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1560 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1561 sender verification.
1563 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1564 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1566 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1567 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1569 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1570 ignore_target_hosts.
1572 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1573 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1574 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1575 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1578 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1579 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1580 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1582 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1583 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1584 wake it up if nothing else does.
1586 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1587 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1588 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1591 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1592 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1594 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
1596 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1597 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1600 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1601 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1604 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1605 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1606 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1607 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1608 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1611 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1612 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1615 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1616 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1617 $sender_host_address.
1619 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1621 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1622 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1623 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1625 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
1628 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1629 (this can affect the format of dates).
1631 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1632 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1633 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1634 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1636 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1637 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1638 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1640 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1641 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1642 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1643 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1645 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1646 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1647 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1649 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1652 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1653 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1654 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1655 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1656 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1657 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1660 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1661 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1662 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1663 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1666 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1667 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1668 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1669 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1670 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1671 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1672 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1674 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1675 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1676 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1677 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1678 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1679 running as the user.
1682 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1683 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1684 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1687 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1688 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1689 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1690 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1691 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1693 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1694 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1695 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1696 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1699 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1700 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1701 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1702 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1703 because the tests only now provoked it.
1709 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1710 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1711 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1712 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1713 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1714 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1715 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1717 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1718 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1721 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1723 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1725 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1726 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1729 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1730 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1731 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1732 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1733 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1735 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1736 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1738 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1740 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1742 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1745 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1746 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1748 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1749 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1750 affecting debugging statements).
1752 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1754 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1755 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1756 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1757 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1758 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1759 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1760 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1761 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1762 after the received time, and all would be well.
1764 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1765 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1766 condition in an expansion string.
1768 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1770 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1771 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1772 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1773 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1774 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1775 job under whatever limits there are.
1777 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1779 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1782 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1783 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1784 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1785 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1788 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1789 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1790 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1791 binary data in such strings.
1793 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1795 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1796 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1797 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1798 failure, which is pointless.
1800 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1802 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1804 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1805 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1806 Sender: header lines.
1808 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1809 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1810 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1812 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1813 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1814 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1815 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1816 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1819 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1820 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1821 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1822 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1823 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1825 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1826 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1827 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1830 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1831 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1833 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1834 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1836 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1838 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1840 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1842 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1845 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1847 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1849 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1850 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1851 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1852 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1854 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1855 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1861 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1862 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1863 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1865 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1866 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1867 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1868 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1869 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1870 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1872 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1873 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1874 verification failure".
1876 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1877 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1878 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1879 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1881 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1882 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1883 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1884 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1885 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1886 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1887 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1888 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1889 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1890 treated as a timeout.
1892 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1893 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1894 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1895 not set for Exim filters).
1897 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1898 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1899 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1901 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1903 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1904 try to make them clearer.
1906 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1907 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1909 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1911 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1913 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1914 only the Cygwin environment.
1916 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1917 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1918 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1919 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1920 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1922 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1923 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1924 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1925 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1926 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1927 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1928 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1930 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1931 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1933 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1935 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1936 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1937 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1939 To: susanne@some.where
1941 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1942 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1943 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1944 of addresses in From: header lines).
1946 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1947 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1948 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1950 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1951 treated as non-personal.
1953 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1954 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1956 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1958 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1960 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1961 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1962 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1964 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1965 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1967 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1968 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1969 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1970 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1971 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1972 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1974 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1975 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1976 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1977 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1978 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1979 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1980 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1981 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1983 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1985 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1986 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1988 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1989 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1990 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1992 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1993 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1995 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1996 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1997 rather than long int.
1999 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2001 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2007 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2008 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2009 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2010 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2011 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2012 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2018 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2019 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2021 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2022 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2023 socklen_t is defined.
2025 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2028 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2031 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2032 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2033 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2034 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2035 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2037 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2038 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2039 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2040 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2042 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2043 of flapping under certain conditions.
2045 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2046 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2047 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2049 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2051 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2053 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2054 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2055 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2056 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2058 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2059 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2060 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2061 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2062 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2063 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2064 preserved with the message after it was received.
2066 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2067 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2068 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2069 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2070 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2071 test suite worked just fine.
2073 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2074 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2075 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2077 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2078 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2081 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2082 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2083 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2084 does not fully solve it.
2086 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2087 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2088 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2089 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2090 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2092 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2093 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2094 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2096 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2097 string, for example:
2099 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2101 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2102 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2103 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2104 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2105 the routers could not see them.
2107 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2108 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2110 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2111 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2114 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2115 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2116 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2117 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2118 that needed quoting.
2120 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2121 was not being matched caselessly.
2123 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2126 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2127 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2128 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2129 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2130 when use_sender is false.
2132 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2134 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2136 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2138 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2139 the configuration file.
2141 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2142 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2144 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2146 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2147 bytes in the message body.
2149 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2150 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2153 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2155 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2157 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2158 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2159 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2160 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2167 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2168 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2170 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2171 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2172 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2173 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2174 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2176 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2177 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2179 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2180 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2181 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2183 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2184 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2185 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2187 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2190 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2191 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2192 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2193 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2194 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2195 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2196 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2202 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2203 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2204 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2205 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2206 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2207 default (and expected) setting.
2209 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2210 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2211 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2212 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2214 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2215 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2217 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2220 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2221 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2222 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2223 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2224 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2225 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2227 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2228 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2229 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2231 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2232 part (NOT match_host).
2234 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2236 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2237 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2238 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2239 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2240 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2241 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2242 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2243 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2244 the same named file.
2246 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2247 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2250 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2251 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2252 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2253 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2256 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2257 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2258 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2260 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2262 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2264 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2266 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2267 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2269 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
2270 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
2271 before starting the TLS session.
2273 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
2275 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
2276 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
2278 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
2279 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
2280 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
2281 colon in the middle).
2287 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
2288 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
2289 multiple configurations are in use.
2291 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
2292 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
2293 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
2294 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
2295 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
2296 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
2298 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
2299 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
2301 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
2302 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
2303 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
2305 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
2306 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
2309 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
2310 that used bh_ and bheader_.
2312 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
2314 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
2315 allowing one more file than it should have been.
2317 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
2325 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
2326 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
2327 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
2328 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
2329 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
2331 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
2334 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
2335 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
2336 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
2337 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
2338 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
2339 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
2341 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
2342 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
2343 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
2344 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
2345 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
2346 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
2347 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
2350 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
2351 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
2352 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
2353 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
2354 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
2356 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
2358 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
2359 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
2360 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
2362 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
2364 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
2365 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
2366 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
2369 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
2370 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
2372 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
2373 Three changes have been made:
2375 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
2376 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
2377 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
2378 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
2379 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
2381 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
2384 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
2385 the modified behaviour.
2391 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
2394 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
2395 indeed breaks things for older releases.
2397 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
2398 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
2399 try to track down a specific problem.
2401 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
2402 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
2403 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
2405 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
2408 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
2409 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
2410 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
2411 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
2412 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
2413 some earlier ones do not.
2415 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
2417 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
2418 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
2419 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2420 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
2421 address literals are enabled, of course).
2423 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
2425 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
2426 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
2427 by a command such as
2431 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
2433 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
2435 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
2436 remained set. It is now erased.
2438 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
2439 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
2441 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
2442 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
2443 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
2444 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
2445 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
2446 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
2447 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
2448 appropriate error code.
2450 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
2451 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
2452 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
2453 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
2454 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
2455 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
2457 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
2458 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
2459 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2461 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2462 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2463 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2464 terminate the header.
2466 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2467 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2468 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2470 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2471 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2472 (4.30/29). In particular:
2474 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2477 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2478 to write a maildirsize file.
2480 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2481 the transport, the new value overrides.
2483 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2486 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2487 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2488 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2491 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2492 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2493 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2496 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2497 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2498 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2500 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2501 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2504 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2505 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2506 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2508 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2510 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2512 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2514 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2515 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2518 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2519 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2520 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2521 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2522 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2523 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2524 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2527 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2528 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2529 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2530 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2531 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2534 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2535 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2536 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2537 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2538 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2539 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2540 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2541 cached value only when the same options are set.
2543 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2545 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2546 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2547 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2548 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2549 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2551 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2552 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2553 it is clearly obsolete.
2555 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2558 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2559 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2560 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2563 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2564 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2565 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2566 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2567 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2569 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2570 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2571 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2572 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2574 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2576 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2578 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2579 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2582 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2583 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2584 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2585 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2586 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2587 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2590 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2591 with the -f command-line option.
2593 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2594 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2595 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2596 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2597 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2598 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2600 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2601 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2604 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2605 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2606 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2607 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2608 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2609 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2610 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2611 buffer is too small.
2613 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2614 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2616 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2617 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2618 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2619 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2620 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2621 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2622 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2623 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2624 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2626 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2627 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2628 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2630 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2631 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2634 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2635 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2636 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2637 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2638 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2640 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2641 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2642 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2643 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2646 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2648 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2650 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2651 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2653 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2654 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2655 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2657 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2658 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2659 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2660 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2661 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2663 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2664 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2665 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2666 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2667 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2668 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2669 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2671 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2672 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2673 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2674 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2675 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2676 the test of how many are available.
2678 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2679 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2680 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2681 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2682 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2683 new message is started.
2685 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2686 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2688 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2689 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2691 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2692 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2693 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2696 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2697 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2698 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2699 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2700 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2701 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2702 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2704 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2705 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2706 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2707 interpreted as octal.
2709 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2712 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2713 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2714 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2715 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2716 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2717 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2719 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2720 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2721 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2722 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2724 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2725 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2726 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2727 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2729 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2730 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2733 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2734 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2736 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2738 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2739 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2740 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2741 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2743 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2744 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2745 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2746 supplied", which is not helpful.
2748 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2749 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2750 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2752 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2753 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2754 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2755 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2756 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2757 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2758 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2759 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2761 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2762 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2763 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2764 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2765 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2767 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2768 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2769 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2770 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2771 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2772 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2774 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2775 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2776 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2778 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2780 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2781 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2782 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2785 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2787 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2788 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2789 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2790 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2791 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2792 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2793 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2794 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2796 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2797 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2798 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2799 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2800 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2802 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2805 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2806 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2807 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2808 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2809 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2810 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2811 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2812 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2813 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2819 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2820 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2821 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2823 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2826 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2827 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2828 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2830 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2831 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2832 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2833 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2834 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2835 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2837 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2838 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2839 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2840 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2841 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2842 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2843 the Exim test suite.
2845 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2846 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2847 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2848 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2850 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2851 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2852 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2853 specify it in this variable.
2855 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2856 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2857 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2858 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2860 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2861 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2862 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2863 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2865 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2866 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2867 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2868 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2869 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2871 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2873 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2876 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2877 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2878 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2879 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2880 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2882 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2883 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2885 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2886 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2887 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2888 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2889 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2891 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2892 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2894 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2895 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2896 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2898 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2899 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2901 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2902 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2904 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2905 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2906 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2908 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2909 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2911 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2912 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2913 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2914 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2916 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2918 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2919 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2920 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2921 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2923 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2925 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2926 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2928 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2930 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2931 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2932 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2933 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2934 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2935 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2937 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2939 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2940 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2943 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2945 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2946 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2948 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2949 550 Sender verify failed
2951 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2952 the final line of the response.
2954 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2955 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2956 all other user lookups.
2958 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2961 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2962 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2963 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2964 result into an int without checking.
2966 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2967 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2968 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2970 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2971 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2972 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2973 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2975 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2978 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2979 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2981 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2982 to the empty sender.
2984 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2985 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2986 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2987 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2988 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2989 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2990 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2993 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2994 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2995 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2996 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2999 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3000 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3002 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3005 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3006 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3008 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3010 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3011 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3014 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3015 as soon as it is encountered.
3017 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3019 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3022 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3023 recognizes a tab character.
3025 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3026 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3027 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3028 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3030 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3032 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3035 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3037 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3039 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3040 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3043 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3044 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3045 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3046 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3047 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3049 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3050 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3052 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3053 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3054 list (.included file names were always shown).
3056 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3057 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3058 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3061 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3062 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3064 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3066 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3068 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3070 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3071 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3072 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3073 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3074 failures to open the logs.
3076 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3077 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3078 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3079 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3080 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3081 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3082 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3088 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3089 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3090 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3093 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3094 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3095 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3097 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3098 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3099 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3101 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3102 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3103 causing some misleading effects.
3105 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3106 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3107 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3109 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3110 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3111 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3112 queue-runner function directly.
3118 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3121 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3122 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3123 was always written to the default place.
3125 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3126 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3127 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3129 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3131 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3133 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3134 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3135 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3137 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3138 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3141 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3142 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3143 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3145 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3146 command line option is disabled.
3148 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3149 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3151 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3153 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3155 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3156 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3158 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3160 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3161 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3162 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3163 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3164 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3165 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3167 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3168 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3171 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3172 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3174 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3175 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3177 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3178 received was valid base64.
3180 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3181 name of the variable that was being set.
3183 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3185 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3186 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3187 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3188 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3189 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3190 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3192 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3194 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3195 nor realm was specified.
3197 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3198 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3199 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3200 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3202 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3203 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3204 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3206 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3207 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3208 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3210 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3211 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3212 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3213 some systems use these upper case variants.
3215 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3216 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3217 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3218 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3220 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3222 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3223 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3225 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3226 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3229 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3231 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3232 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3233 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3234 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3236 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3239 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3240 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3241 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3243 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3244 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3246 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3247 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3248 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3249 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3251 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3252 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3253 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3255 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3257 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3258 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3259 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3260 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3263 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3264 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3265 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3267 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
3269 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
3270 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
3272 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
3273 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
3275 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
3276 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
3277 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
3278 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
3279 when emails are that large.
3286 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
3287 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
3289 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
3290 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
3291 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
3293 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
3294 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
3295 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
3297 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
3298 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
3299 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
3300 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
3301 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
3303 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
3304 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
3305 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
3306 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
3307 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
3310 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
3311 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
3312 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
3313 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
3314 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
3315 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
3316 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
3317 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
3318 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
3319 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
3320 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
3321 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
3322 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
3323 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
3325 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
3326 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
3329 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
3330 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
3331 error should be diagnosed.
3333 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
3334 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
3335 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
3336 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
3337 appeared instead of "NULL".
3339 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
3340 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
3341 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
3342 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
3343 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
3344 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
3347 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
3348 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
3349 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
3355 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
3356 or receiver verification errors.
3358 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
3361 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
3362 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
3363 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
3364 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
3366 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
3367 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
3368 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
3369 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
3370 shouldn't happen again.
3372 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
3373 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
3374 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
3376 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
3377 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
3379 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
3381 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
3382 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
3384 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
3385 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
3388 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
3389 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
3390 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
3392 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
3393 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
3394 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
3395 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
3397 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
3398 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
3399 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
3400 to define what should happen).
3402 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
3403 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
3404 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
3406 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
3408 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
3410 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
3411 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
3413 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
3414 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
3415 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
3416 structure in all cases.
3418 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
3419 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
3420 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
3421 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
3423 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
3424 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
3427 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
3428 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
3430 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
3431 MD5 (which is deprecated).
3433 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
3434 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
3435 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
3437 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
3438 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
3439 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
3441 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
3442 the book and for uniformity.
3444 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
3446 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
3447 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
3448 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
3449 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
3450 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
3451 non-existent command as the problem.
3453 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
3454 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
3455 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
3457 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
3459 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
3460 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3461 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3463 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3464 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3465 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3466 timestamps using strftime().
3468 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3469 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3471 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3472 transport-time rewrites.
3474 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3475 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3476 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3477 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3479 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3480 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3482 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3483 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3484 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3485 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3488 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3489 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3490 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3491 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3492 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3493 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3494 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3496 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3497 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3498 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3499 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3500 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3502 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3503 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3504 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3505 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3506 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3507 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3508 remaining text gets split now.
3510 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3511 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3512 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3513 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3515 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3516 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3517 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3518 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3521 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3522 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3523 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3524 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3525 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3526 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3527 passed through if needed.
3529 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3530 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3531 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3532 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3533 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3534 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3536 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3537 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3538 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3539 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3540 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3542 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3543 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3544 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3545 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3546 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3548 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3549 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3552 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3553 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3554 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3555 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3556 mayhem of various kinds.
3558 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3559 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3560 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3561 the right test for positive values.
3563 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3564 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3565 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3566 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3567 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3568 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3569 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3570 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3571 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3572 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3575 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3578 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3579 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3582 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3583 the existing equality matching.
3585 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3586 dealing with inode numbers.
3588 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3589 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3590 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3592 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3593 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3594 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3595 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3598 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3599 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3600 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3601 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3602 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3603 relay addresses has also been removed.
3605 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3607 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3608 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3609 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3611 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3612 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3613 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3614 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3615 processing applies to CR:
3617 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3618 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3620 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3621 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3622 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3623 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3625 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3626 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3627 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3629 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3630 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3631 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3632 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3633 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3634 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3637 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3640 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3641 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3642 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3643 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3646 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3648 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3650 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3652 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3653 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3654 not considered personal.
3656 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3658 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3660 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3662 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3663 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3664 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3665 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3666 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3667 header lines, and spool format errors.
3669 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3670 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3671 for more flexibility.
3673 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3674 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3675 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3677 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3680 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3681 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3682 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3683 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3684 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3685 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3686 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3687 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3688 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3690 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3691 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3692 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3693 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3694 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3695 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3696 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3698 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3699 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3700 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3702 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3703 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3704 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3705 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3706 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3707 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3708 instead of killing the process with assert().
3710 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3711 than Unicode encoding.
3713 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3714 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3715 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3716 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3718 77. Added process_log_path.
3720 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3721 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3723 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3724 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3726 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3727 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3728 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3730 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3731 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3732 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3733 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3734 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3737 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3738 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3741 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3742 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3743 they will be used during message reception.
3749 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.