1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
9 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
12 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
15 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
19 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
21 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
27 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
34 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
36 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
38 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
41 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
45 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
47 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
49 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
51 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
53 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
54 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
56 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
58 PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
60 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
61 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
63 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
64 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
67 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
69 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
71 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
72 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
74 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
77 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
78 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
80 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
81 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
83 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
86 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
89 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
92 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
94 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
95 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
96 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
97 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
99 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
101 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
102 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
103 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
104 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
107 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
108 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
109 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
111 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
112 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
113 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
114 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
116 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
117 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
118 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
119 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
120 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
121 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
122 delivery, as in LMTP.
124 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
125 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
127 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
129 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
133 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
134 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
135 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
136 username as equal to the username.
138 This change corrects that bug.
140 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
141 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
142 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
144 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
146 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
147 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
148 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
149 NULL dereference and crash.
151 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
153 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
154 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
155 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
157 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
159 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
160 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
161 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
162 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
163 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
164 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
165 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
166 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
167 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
168 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
169 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
171 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
172 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
174 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
175 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
178 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
179 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
180 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
181 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
182 an empty string is now equivalent.
188 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
190 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
196 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
197 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
198 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
200 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
202 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
205 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
207 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
209 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
211 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
212 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
214 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
215 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
217 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
218 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
220 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
221 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
222 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
224 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
226 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
227 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
229 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
231 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
233 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
234 non-compliant senders.
235 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
237 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
238 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
239 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
241 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
242 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
243 in spool file corruption.
245 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
246 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
247 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
250 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
251 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
252 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
254 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
255 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
257 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
259 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
261 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
263 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
264 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
265 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
267 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
268 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
269 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
270 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
272 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
273 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
275 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
276 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
277 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
278 resolver implementation change.
280 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
281 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
283 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
285 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
287 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
288 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
290 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
291 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
293 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
294 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
296 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
297 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
298 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
299 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
300 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
302 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
304 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
305 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
306 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
308 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
310 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
311 read-only, out of scope).
312 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
314 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
315 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
316 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
317 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
319 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
321 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
322 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
323 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
324 real issues in debug logging.
326 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
327 assignment on my part. Fixed.
329 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
330 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
331 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
333 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
334 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
335 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
338 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
339 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
341 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
342 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
343 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
344 needs to override this, it can.
346 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
347 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
348 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
350 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
351 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
352 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
353 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
355 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
361 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
362 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
364 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
366 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
369 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
370 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
372 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
373 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
374 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
376 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
377 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
378 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
379 not safe for signals.
381 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
382 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
383 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
384 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
387 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
389 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
390 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
391 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
392 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
393 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
395 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
396 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
397 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
398 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
399 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
400 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
402 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
403 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
404 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
405 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
407 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
408 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
409 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
410 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
412 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
413 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
414 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
415 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
416 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
417 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
418 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
419 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
420 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
422 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
423 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
424 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
425 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
427 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
428 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
429 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
430 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
431 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
432 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
433 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
434 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
435 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
436 details in the main documentation.
438 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
440 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
442 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
443 repository when doing development or release builds.
445 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
446 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
448 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
449 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
452 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
454 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
455 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
457 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
458 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
460 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
461 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
463 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
464 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
466 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
467 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
469 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
471 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
474 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
475 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
476 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
478 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
480 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
482 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
483 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
489 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
491 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
492 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
494 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
496 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
498 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
501 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
502 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
504 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
505 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
507 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
510 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
513 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
514 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
516 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
517 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
518 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
519 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
521 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
522 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
528 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
531 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
532 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
533 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
535 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
536 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
538 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
539 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
540 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
542 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
543 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
545 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
546 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
548 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
549 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
551 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
552 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
554 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
555 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
557 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
560 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
561 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
563 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
564 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
566 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
567 SQL string expansion failure details.
568 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
570 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
571 Patch from Simon Arlott.
573 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
574 extern declarations in function scope.
575 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
577 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
578 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
579 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
582 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
583 Patch from Mark Zealey.
585 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
586 Patch from Mark Zealey.
588 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
589 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
591 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
592 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
594 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
595 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
598 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
600 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
602 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
603 Patch by Simon Arlott
605 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
606 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
612 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
613 consequences so log it to the panic log.
615 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
616 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
618 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
620 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
621 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
622 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
624 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
625 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
626 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
628 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
629 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
630 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
631 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
633 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
634 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
635 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
636 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
638 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
639 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
640 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
643 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
646 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
647 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
648 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
649 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
650 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
656 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
657 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
658 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
660 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
661 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
663 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
665 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
667 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
669 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
671 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
673 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
674 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
675 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
676 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
678 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
679 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
680 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
681 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
682 more caution in buffer sizes.
684 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
686 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
688 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
690 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
692 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
694 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
696 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
698 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
699 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
700 ignore trailing whitespace.
702 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
704 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
707 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
708 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
710 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
711 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
712 Notification from John Horne.
714 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
717 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
718 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
721 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
724 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
725 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
726 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
728 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
729 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
730 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
733 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
734 option (effectively making it always true).
736 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
737 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
739 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
740 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
742 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
743 run-time user, instead of root.
745 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
746 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
748 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
749 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
752 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
753 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
754 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
756 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
758 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
764 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
765 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
768 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
769 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
772 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
773 Patch from Alain Williams
775 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
777 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
778 Patch from Andreas Metzler
780 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
781 Patch from Kirill Miazine
783 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
785 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
787 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
788 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
790 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
792 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
794 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
795 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
796 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
798 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
799 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
801 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
802 Patch by Simon Arlott
804 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
805 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
811 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
813 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
815 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
817 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
819 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
825 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
826 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
828 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
829 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
832 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
833 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
834 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
836 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
837 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
839 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
840 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
841 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
842 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
844 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
845 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
846 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
848 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
850 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
852 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
853 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
855 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
857 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
858 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
859 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
860 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
862 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
863 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
865 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
867 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
869 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
870 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
872 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
873 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
875 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
876 that they are available at delivery time.
878 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
880 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
881 incoming_port log selectors.
883 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
884 setting expands to an empty string.
886 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
887 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
889 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
890 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
892 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
893 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
895 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
896 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
898 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
899 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
901 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
902 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
904 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
906 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
907 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
909 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
910 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
912 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
914 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
915 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
917 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
919 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
921 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
924 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
925 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
927 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
928 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
930 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
931 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
933 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
934 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
936 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
937 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
939 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
940 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
942 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
943 plus update to original patch.
945 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
947 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
948 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
950 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
952 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
954 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
956 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
958 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
959 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
961 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
962 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
964 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
965 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
967 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
968 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
970 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
972 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
974 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
976 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
982 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
983 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
984 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
986 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
987 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
988 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
989 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
990 build errors in sieve.c.
992 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
993 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
994 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
996 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
998 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1000 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1002 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1008 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1010 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1011 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1012 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1013 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1014 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1015 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1016 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1017 for iplsearch lookups.
1019 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1020 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1021 previously such lookups could never work.
1023 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1024 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1025 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1027 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1030 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1031 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1032 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1033 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1034 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1035 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1037 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1038 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1040 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1041 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1042 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1043 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1044 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1045 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1047 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1050 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1052 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1053 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1056 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1057 by clients under certain conditions.
1059 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1060 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1062 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1064 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1065 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1067 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1069 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1071 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1073 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1074 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1076 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1078 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1079 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1081 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1083 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1085 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1086 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1087 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1088 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1090 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1091 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1092 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1094 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1095 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1097 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1099 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1101 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1103 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1104 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1105 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1111 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1112 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1115 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1116 issue a MAIL command.
1118 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1120 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1122 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1123 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1124 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1125 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1126 item. This has been fixed.
1128 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1129 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1131 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1132 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1134 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1135 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1136 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1138 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1140 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1141 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1142 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1143 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1144 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1146 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1147 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1148 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1150 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1151 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1152 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1153 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1155 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1157 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1159 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1160 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1161 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1162 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1163 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1165 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1167 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1168 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1169 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1172 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1174 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1176 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1178 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1180 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1182 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1183 no_callout_flush is set.
1185 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1186 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1187 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1190 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1192 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1193 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1194 other ACL rejections are.
1196 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1197 with slight modification.
1199 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1200 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1202 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1203 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1206 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1207 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1209 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1211 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1212 expansion side effects.
1214 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1215 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1216 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1219 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1220 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1221 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1223 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1224 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1225 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1226 were accidentally chopped off.
1228 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1229 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1230 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1231 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1232 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1233 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1234 pipelining has not been advertised.
1236 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1238 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1239 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1240 This has been fixed.
1242 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1243 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1244 reported on Solaris.
1246 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1247 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1248 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1249 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1250 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1251 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1252 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1254 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1257 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1259 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1261 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1262 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1263 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1264 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1265 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1266 criteria to be more general.
1268 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1269 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1270 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1271 host_all_ignored option.
1273 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1274 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1275 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1276 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1277 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1278 is what is supposed to happen).
1280 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1281 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1282 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1283 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1284 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1287 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1288 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1289 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1290 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1291 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1292 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1295 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1297 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1298 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1300 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1301 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1303 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1305 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1307 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1308 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1309 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1310 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1311 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1312 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1313 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1314 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1315 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1316 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1317 least in a lot of common cases.
1319 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1320 advertised in response to EHLO.
1326 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1327 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1329 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1330 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1332 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1333 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1334 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1336 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1337 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1338 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1339 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1340 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1346 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1347 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1350 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1351 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1352 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1354 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1355 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1356 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1357 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1358 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1359 rather than extend the field.
1365 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1366 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1367 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1368 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1371 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1372 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1373 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1375 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1376 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1377 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1379 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1380 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1381 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1384 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1385 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1386 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1387 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1388 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1389 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1390 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1391 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1392 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1393 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1394 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1396 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1399 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1400 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1401 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1402 ignores EPIPE as well.
1404 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1405 (quoted-printable decoding).
1407 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1408 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1410 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1412 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1414 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1416 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1417 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1419 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1422 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1423 miscellaneous code fixes
1425 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1428 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1429 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1430 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1431 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1432 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1433 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1434 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1435 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1437 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1438 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1439 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1440 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1442 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1443 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1444 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1445 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1446 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1447 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1448 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1449 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1450 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1452 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1455 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1456 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1457 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1458 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1459 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1460 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1461 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1462 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1464 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1465 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1468 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1469 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1470 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1471 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1472 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1473 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1474 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1475 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1476 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1477 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1478 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1479 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1480 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1482 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1483 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1484 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1485 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1486 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1487 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1488 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1490 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1491 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1492 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1493 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1494 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1495 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1496 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1497 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1498 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1499 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1501 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1502 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1503 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1504 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1505 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1507 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1508 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1509 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1510 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1511 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1512 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1513 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1515 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1516 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1517 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1518 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1519 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1520 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1523 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1524 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1525 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1528 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1529 if any retry times were supplied.
1531 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1532 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1533 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1535 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1537 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1539 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1540 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1541 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1542 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1543 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1544 before) are ignored.
1546 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1547 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1549 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1550 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1551 committing the later change.]
1553 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1554 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1555 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1556 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1557 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1558 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1559 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1560 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1561 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1563 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1564 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1565 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1566 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1567 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1568 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1569 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1570 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1571 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1573 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1574 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1575 hammering the server.
1577 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1578 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1580 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1582 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1583 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1584 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1586 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1587 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1588 one case where this was not true.
1590 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1591 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1592 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1593 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1596 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1597 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1598 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1599 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1600 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1601 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1602 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1603 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1604 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1607 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1608 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1609 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1610 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1612 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1613 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1615 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1616 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1617 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1619 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1621 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1623 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1625 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1626 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1627 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1628 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1630 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1631 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1633 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1634 be meaningful with "accept".
1636 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1637 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1639 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1640 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1641 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1643 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1644 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1645 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1646 there is data to show.
1647 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1649 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1650 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1651 as well as the number of messages.
1653 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1654 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1655 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1657 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1658 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1659 have a flag are now skipped.
1661 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1662 Added the -emptyok flag.
1664 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1665 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1667 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1668 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1669 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1671 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1674 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1675 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1677 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1679 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1680 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1682 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1684 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1685 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1686 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1687 contravention of the specifications.
1689 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1690 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1691 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1693 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1694 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1695 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1697 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1699 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1700 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1701 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1702 some point in the past.
1704 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1705 transport during callout processing was broken.
1707 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1708 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1710 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1711 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1713 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1714 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1716 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1722 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1723 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1725 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1726 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1727 there is data to show.
1728 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1730 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1731 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1733 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1734 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1736 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1737 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1739 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1740 submissions from trusted users.
1742 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1743 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1745 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1746 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1747 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1748 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1749 there is now a framework to start from.
1751 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1752 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1753 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1755 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1757 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1759 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1761 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1762 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1763 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1765 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1768 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1769 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1770 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1772 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1773 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1774 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1777 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1778 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1779 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1780 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1781 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1783 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1784 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1786 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1788 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1789 operations in malware.c.
1791 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1794 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1795 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1796 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1799 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1800 statements to "add_header".
1802 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1803 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1805 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1806 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1809 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1813 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1814 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1815 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1818 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1819 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1821 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1822 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1824 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1825 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1826 any possible encoding problems.
1828 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1829 but not after initializing Perl.
1831 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1832 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1833 apparently, which is not desirable.
1835 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1838 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1841 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1843 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1844 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1845 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1846 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1848 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1849 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1850 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1852 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1853 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1854 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1857 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1858 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1859 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1860 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1861 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1867 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1868 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1870 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1873 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1874 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1875 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1876 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1877 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1878 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1879 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1880 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1883 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1885 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1886 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1887 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1889 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1890 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1891 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1894 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1895 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1897 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1898 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1899 option (which defaults to 0600).
1901 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1903 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1904 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1905 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1906 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1907 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1908 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1909 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1911 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1917 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1918 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1919 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1920 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1921 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1922 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1925 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1926 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1928 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1930 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1931 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1932 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1933 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1934 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1937 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1938 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1940 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1941 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1942 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1943 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1944 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1946 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1947 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1948 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1949 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1951 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1952 be the same on different OS.
1954 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1957 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1958 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1960 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1963 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1964 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1965 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1966 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1967 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1968 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1971 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1972 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1973 when Exim was called.
1975 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1976 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1978 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1979 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1980 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1981 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1983 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1984 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1985 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1986 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1989 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1990 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1991 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1993 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1994 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1995 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1997 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2000 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2001 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2002 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2003 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2004 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2005 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2006 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2007 values from the SRV records were lost.
2009 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2010 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2011 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2013 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2014 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2015 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2017 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2018 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2019 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2020 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2021 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2022 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2023 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2024 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2025 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2026 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2028 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2029 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2030 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2032 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2033 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2035 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2036 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2037 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2038 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2041 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2042 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2043 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2045 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2046 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2047 PH/23 above applies.
2049 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2050 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2051 (for which there is an explicit test).
2053 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2055 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2056 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2057 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2058 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2059 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2061 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2062 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2063 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2064 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2066 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2067 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2068 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2070 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2072 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2074 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2075 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2076 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2078 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2079 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2080 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2081 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2082 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2084 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2085 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2086 the message gets confusing).
2088 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2089 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2090 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2091 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2093 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2094 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2095 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2096 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2099 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2100 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2101 the different processes.
2103 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2105 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2107 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2108 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2110 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2111 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2113 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2114 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2115 messages matching specified criteria.
2117 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2119 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2120 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2122 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2123 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2124 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2125 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2126 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2127 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2128 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2129 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2130 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2131 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2133 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2134 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2135 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2137 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2139 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2140 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2141 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2142 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2143 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2144 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2145 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2148 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2149 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2151 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2153 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2155 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2157 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2158 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2159 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2160 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2161 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2162 size of the count of files.
2164 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2166 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2169 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2170 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2171 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2172 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2174 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2175 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2176 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2178 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2179 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2180 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2181 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2182 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2184 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2185 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2187 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2188 will now be deprecated.
2190 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2192 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2193 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2194 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2196 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2197 with very large, slow to parse queues
2199 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2201 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2203 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2204 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2205 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2208 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2209 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2210 Sieve code now uses this.
2212 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2213 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2215 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2216 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2218 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2220 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2221 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2222 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2223 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2224 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2226 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2227 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2228 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2229 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2231 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2233 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2235 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2236 is preferred over IPv4.
2238 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2239 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2240 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2241 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2242 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2243 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2244 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2246 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2247 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2248 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2250 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2252 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2253 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2254 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2255 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2256 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2257 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2258 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2259 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2260 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2261 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2262 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2264 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2265 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2266 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2272 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2274 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2275 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2277 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2278 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2279 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2281 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2283 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2286 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2289 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2290 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2291 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2294 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2295 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2297 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2298 inside the third argument.
2300 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2301 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2304 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2305 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2307 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2308 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2310 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2312 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2313 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2316 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2318 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2319 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2320 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2321 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2322 identical. For example:
2324 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2326 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2327 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2328 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2330 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2331 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2332 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2333 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2335 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2336 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2337 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2340 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2342 o fixes some comments
2343 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2344 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2345 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2346 and documents the missing references header update
2350 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2351 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2354 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2355 Electronic Mail") by including:
2357 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2359 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2360 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2361 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2362 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2363 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2365 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2367 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2369 The auto-replied keyword:
2371 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2372 message by an automatic process,
2374 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2376 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2377 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2379 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2380 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2383 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2384 to the default Received: header definition.
2386 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2388 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2389 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2390 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2392 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2393 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2394 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2396 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2397 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2398 and treats the condition as false.
2400 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2402 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2403 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2404 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2405 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2406 not changing the active code.
2408 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2409 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2411 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2412 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2414 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2417 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2418 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2419 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2420 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2421 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2422 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2423 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2424 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2425 the text comparison.
2427 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2428 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2429 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2430 The same fix has been applied.
2436 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2437 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2440 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2441 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2443 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2445 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2446 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2447 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2448 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2449 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2451 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2452 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2453 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2454 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2457 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2465 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2466 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2468 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2470 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2472 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2473 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2474 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2476 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2477 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2478 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2480 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2481 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2484 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2485 ${stat: expansion item.
2487 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2488 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2490 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2491 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2494 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2496 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2499 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2500 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2502 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2504 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2505 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2506 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2507 the end of the subprocess.
2509 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2510 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2511 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2512 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2513 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2515 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2517 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2519 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2520 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2522 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2524 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2526 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2527 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2530 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2532 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2533 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2534 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2536 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2537 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2539 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2540 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2542 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2543 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2545 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2546 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2548 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2549 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2550 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2551 contributed by a Radius user.
2553 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2554 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2556 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2557 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2559 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2562 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2563 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2566 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2567 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2568 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2569 header lines when this was not necessary.
2571 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2573 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2574 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2575 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2578 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2581 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2582 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2583 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2584 return code was incorrect.
2586 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2588 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2590 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2592 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2594 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2595 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2596 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2597 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2598 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2601 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2603 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2604 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2605 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2606 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2607 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2608 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2609 which is clearly wrong.
2611 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2613 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2614 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2615 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2618 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2619 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2621 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2623 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2624 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2626 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2627 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2629 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2630 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2632 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2633 recipients, not senders.
2635 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2636 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2638 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2640 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2642 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2643 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2644 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2645 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2647 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2649 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2650 clock is set back in time.
2652 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2653 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2655 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2656 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2658 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2659 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2662 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2663 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2666 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2669 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2671 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2672 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2673 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2675 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2676 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2677 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2678 helo verification defer as a failure.
2680 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2681 actual error message.
2687 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2689 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2690 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2691 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2692 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2694 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2696 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2697 can still be requested.
2699 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2700 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2701 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2702 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2704 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2705 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2706 circumstances, but probably never did.
2708 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2709 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2710 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2713 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2715 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2716 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2718 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2720 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2722 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2723 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2724 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2725 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2726 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2727 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2729 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2730 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2731 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2732 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2733 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2734 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2736 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2737 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2739 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2740 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2742 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2743 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2745 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2747 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2749 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2751 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2753 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2755 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2757 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2759 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2760 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2761 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2763 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2764 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2765 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2766 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2768 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2769 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2770 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2772 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2773 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2774 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2775 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2777 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2778 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2781 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2782 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2783 should work with maildirs and everything.
2785 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2786 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2788 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2791 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2792 function for BDB 4.3.
2794 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2796 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2797 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2800 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2801 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2802 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2803 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2804 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2805 formatting function string_vformat().
2807 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2808 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2809 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2810 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2811 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2812 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2813 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2814 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2816 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2817 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2820 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2821 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2823 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2824 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2825 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2826 test. It is now used for both.
2828 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2829 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2830 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2831 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2832 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2833 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2835 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2836 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2837 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2840 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2841 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2842 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2844 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2845 experimental DomainKeys support:
2847 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2848 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2849 the control was given.
2851 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2853 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2855 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2857 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2858 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2859 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2862 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2863 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2864 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2865 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2866 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2867 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2870 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2871 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2872 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2873 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2874 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2875 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2877 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2878 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2879 do -d+all out of habit.
2881 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2882 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2885 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2886 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2887 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2888 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2889 record types that Exim uses.
2891 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2892 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2893 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2894 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2895 non-existent file that was broken.
2897 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2898 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2900 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2901 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2902 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2904 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2906 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2907 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2908 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2909 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2910 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2913 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2914 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2915 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2916 at a slight CPU cost.
2918 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2919 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2921 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2924 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2926 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2927 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2933 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2934 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2936 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2938 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2940 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2941 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2943 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2944 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2945 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2946 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2947 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2948 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2951 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2952 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2953 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2954 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2957 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2958 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2959 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2960 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2961 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2962 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2963 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2966 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2967 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2969 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2970 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2971 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2972 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2973 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2974 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2976 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2977 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2978 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2979 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2981 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2984 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2985 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2987 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2988 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2989 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2990 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2993 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2995 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2996 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2998 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2999 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3000 to what was transported.)
3002 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3004 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3005 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3006 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3007 spamd_address settings.
3009 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3010 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3011 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3012 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3013 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3015 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3017 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3018 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3019 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3020 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3021 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3023 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3024 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3026 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3027 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3028 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3029 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3030 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3031 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3032 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3035 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3036 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3037 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3038 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3039 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3040 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3041 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3044 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3046 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3047 driver and ACL definitions.
3049 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3050 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3052 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3053 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3054 understands it better than I do:
3056 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3057 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3059 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3060 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3061 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3062 => three warnings about OTP not working
3063 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3065 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3066 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3067 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3068 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3070 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3071 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3073 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3074 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3075 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3077 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3078 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3081 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3082 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3085 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3086 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3087 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3089 warn !verify = sender
3090 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3092 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3093 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3095 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3097 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3098 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3100 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3101 nomenclature these days.)
3103 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3104 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3106 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3107 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3108 . First host does not offer TLS;
3109 . First host accepts first address;
3110 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3111 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3112 . Second host accepts second address.
3113 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3114 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3117 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3118 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3119 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3120 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3121 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3123 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3124 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3126 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3127 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3129 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3130 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3131 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3133 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3134 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3137 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3139 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3140 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3141 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3142 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3143 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3144 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3145 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3147 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3148 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3149 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3150 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3151 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3153 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3154 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3157 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3158 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3159 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3160 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3161 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3162 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3164 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3166 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3167 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3168 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3169 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3170 printable escape sequences.
3172 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3173 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3176 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3177 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3180 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3181 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3182 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3183 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3184 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3186 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3187 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3188 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3190 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3192 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3193 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3196 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3197 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3198 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3199 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3200 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3201 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3202 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3203 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3204 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3207 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3208 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3209 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3210 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3214 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3215 ----------------------------------------
3217 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3218 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3219 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3220 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3221 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3222 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3225 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3226 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3227 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3228 historical information.
3234 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3236 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3237 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3239 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3240 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3243 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3244 filter fails to execute.
3246 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3247 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3248 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3249 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3250 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3252 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3254 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3255 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3256 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3257 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3259 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3260 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3261 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3262 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3263 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3265 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3267 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3269 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3270 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3271 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3272 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3274 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3275 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3276 sender verification.
3278 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3279 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3281 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3283 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3286 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3287 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3289 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3290 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3292 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3293 information about exactly what failed.
3295 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3297 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3298 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3299 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3301 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3302 It is now set to "smtps".
3304 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3305 ignore_target_hosts.
3307 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3308 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3309 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3310 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3313 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3314 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3315 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3317 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3318 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3319 wake it up if nothing else does.
3321 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3322 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3323 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3326 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3327 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3329 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3331 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3332 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3333 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3334 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3335 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3336 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3337 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3338 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3340 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3341 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3342 than one IP address.
3344 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3345 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3346 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3347 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3349 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3350 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3351 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3352 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3353 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3356 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3357 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3358 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3359 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3361 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3362 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3365 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3366 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3367 $sender_host_address.
3369 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3370 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3371 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3372 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3373 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3376 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3378 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3379 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3381 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3382 just the host names, not the priorities.
3384 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3385 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3386 controlled by a keyword.
3388 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3389 multiple records are returned.
3391 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3392 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3395 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3397 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3398 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3400 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3401 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3402 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3404 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3406 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3408 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3410 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3411 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3412 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3413 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3414 because the tests only now provoked it.
3416 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3417 (this can affect the format of dates).
3419 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3420 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3421 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3422 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3424 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3426 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3427 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3428 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3429 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3431 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3432 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3433 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3435 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3438 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3439 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3440 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3441 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3442 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3443 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3446 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3447 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3448 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3451 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3452 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3453 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3455 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3456 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3457 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3458 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3459 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3460 so I produce this patch..."
3462 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3463 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3466 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3467 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3468 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3469 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3472 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3474 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3475 long debug lines gets shown.
3477 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3478 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3480 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3482 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3483 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3484 of $primary_hostname.
3486 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3487 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3488 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3489 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3490 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3491 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3492 by change 4.50/55 above.
3494 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3495 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3496 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3497 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3498 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3499 running as the user.
3502 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3503 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3504 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3507 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3508 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3510 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3511 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3512 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3513 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3514 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3516 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3517 This has been fixed.
3519 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3520 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3521 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3522 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3525 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3527 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3528 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3529 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3530 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3532 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3533 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3535 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3536 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3537 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3539 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3540 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3541 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3544 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3545 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3546 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3548 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3549 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3550 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3551 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3553 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3554 during host lookups.
3556 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3557 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3559 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3561 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3562 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3563 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3564 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3565 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3568 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3569 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3571 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3572 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3573 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3575 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3577 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3578 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3579 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3580 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3581 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3582 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3585 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3586 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3587 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3588 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3589 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3591 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3594 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3596 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3597 "vacation" handling.
3599 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3600 OS variants using glibc.
3602 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3605 ----------------------------------------------------
3606 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3607 ----------------------------------------------------
3613 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3614 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3617 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3618 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3621 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3622 filter fails to execute.
3624 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3625 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3626 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3627 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3628 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3630 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3631 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3632 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3633 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3635 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3636 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3637 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3638 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3639 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3641 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3643 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3644 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3645 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3646 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3648 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3649 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3650 sender verification.
3652 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3653 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3655 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3656 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3658 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3659 ignore_target_hosts.
3661 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3662 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3663 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3664 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3667 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3668 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3669 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3671 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3672 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3673 wake it up if nothing else does.
3675 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3676 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3677 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3680 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3681 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3683 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3685 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3686 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3689 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3690 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3693 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3694 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3695 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3696 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3697 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3700 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3701 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3704 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3705 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3706 $sender_host_address.
3708 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3710 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3711 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3712 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3714 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3717 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3718 (this can affect the format of dates).
3720 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3721 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3722 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3723 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3725 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3726 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3727 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3729 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3730 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3731 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3732 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3734 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3735 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3736 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3738 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3741 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3742 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3743 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3744 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3745 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3746 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3749 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3750 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3751 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3752 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3755 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3756 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3757 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3758 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3759 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3760 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3761 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3763 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3764 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3765 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3766 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3767 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3768 running as the user.
3771 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3772 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3773 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3776 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3777 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3778 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3779 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3780 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3782 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3783 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3784 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3785 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3788 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3789 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3790 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3791 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3792 because the tests only now provoked it.
3798 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3799 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3800 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3801 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3802 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3803 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3804 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3806 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3807 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3810 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3812 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3814 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3815 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3818 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3819 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3820 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3821 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3822 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3824 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3825 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3827 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3829 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3831 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3834 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3835 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3837 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3838 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3839 affecting debugging statements).
3841 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3843 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3844 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3845 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3846 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3847 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3848 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3849 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3850 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3851 after the received time, and all would be well.
3853 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3854 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3855 condition in an expansion string.
3857 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3859 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3860 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3861 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3862 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3863 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3864 job under whatever limits there are.
3866 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3868 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3871 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3872 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3873 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3874 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3877 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3878 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3879 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3880 binary data in such strings.
3882 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3884 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3885 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3886 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3887 failure, which is pointless.
3889 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3891 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3893 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3894 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3895 Sender: header lines.
3897 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3898 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3899 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3901 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3902 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3903 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3904 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3905 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3908 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3909 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3910 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3911 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3912 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3914 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3915 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3916 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3919 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3920 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3922 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3923 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3925 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3927 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3929 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3931 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3934 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3936 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3938 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3939 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3940 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3941 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3943 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3944 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3950 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3951 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3952 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3954 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3955 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3956 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3957 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3958 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3959 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3961 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3962 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3963 verification failure".
3965 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3966 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3967 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3968 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3970 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3971 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3972 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3973 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3974 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3975 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3976 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3977 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3978 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3979 treated as a timeout.
3981 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3982 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3983 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3984 not set for Exim filters).
3986 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3987 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3988 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3990 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3992 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3993 try to make them clearer.
3995 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3996 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3998 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4000 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4002 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4003 only the Cygwin environment.
4005 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4006 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4007 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4008 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4009 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4011 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4012 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4013 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4014 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4015 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4016 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4017 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4019 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4020 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4022 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4024 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4025 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4026 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4028 To: susanne@some.where
4030 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4031 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4032 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4033 of addresses in From: header lines).
4035 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4036 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4037 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4039 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4040 treated as non-personal.
4042 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4043 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4045 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4047 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4049 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4050 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4051 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4053 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4054 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4056 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4057 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4058 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4059 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4060 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4061 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4063 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4064 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4065 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4066 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4067 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4068 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4069 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4070 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4072 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4074 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4075 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4077 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4078 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4079 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4081 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4082 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4084 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4085 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4086 rather than long int.
4088 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4090 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4096 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4097 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4098 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4099 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4100 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4101 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4107 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4108 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4110 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4111 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4112 socklen_t is defined.
4114 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4117 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4120 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4121 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4122 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4123 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4124 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4126 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4127 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4128 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4129 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4131 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4132 of flapping under certain conditions.
4134 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4135 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4136 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4138 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4140 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4142 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4143 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4144 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4145 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4147 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4148 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4149 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4150 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4151 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4152 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4153 preserved with the message after it was received.
4155 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4156 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4157 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4158 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4159 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4160 test suite worked just fine.
4162 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4163 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4164 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4166 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4167 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4170 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4171 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4172 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4173 does not fully solve it.
4175 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4176 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4177 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4178 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4179 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4181 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4182 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4183 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4185 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4186 string, for example:
4188 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4190 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4191 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4192 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4193 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4194 the routers could not see them.
4196 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4197 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4199 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4200 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4203 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4204 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4205 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4206 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4207 that needed quoting.
4209 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4210 was not being matched caselessly.
4212 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4215 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4216 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4217 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4218 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4219 when use_sender is false.
4221 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4223 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4225 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4227 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4228 the configuration file.
4230 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4231 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4233 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4235 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4236 bytes in the message body.
4238 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4239 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4242 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4244 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4246 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4247 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4248 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4249 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4256 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4257 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4259 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4260 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4261 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4262 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4263 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4265 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4266 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4268 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4269 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4270 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4272 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4273 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4274 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4276 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4279 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4280 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4281 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4282 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4283 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4284 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4285 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4291 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4292 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4293 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4294 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4295 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4296 default (and expected) setting.
4298 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4299 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4300 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4301 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4303 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4304 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4306 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4309 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4310 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4311 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4312 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4313 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4314 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4316 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4317 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4318 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4320 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4321 part (NOT match_host).
4323 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4325 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4326 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4327 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4328 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4329 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4330 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4331 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4332 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4333 the same named file.
4335 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4336 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4339 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4340 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4341 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4342 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4345 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4346 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4347 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4349 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4351 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4353 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4355 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4356 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4358 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4359 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4360 before starting the TLS session.
4362 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4364 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4365 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4367 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4368 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4369 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4370 colon in the middle).
4376 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4377 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4378 multiple configurations are in use.
4380 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4381 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4382 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4383 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4384 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4385 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4387 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4388 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4390 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4391 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4392 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4394 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4395 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4398 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4399 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4401 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4403 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4404 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4406 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4414 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4415 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4416 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4417 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4418 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4420 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4423 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4424 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4425 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4426 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4427 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4428 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4430 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4431 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4432 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4433 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4434 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4435 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4436 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4439 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4440 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4441 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4442 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4443 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4445 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4447 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4448 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4449 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4451 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4453 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4454 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4455 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4458 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4459 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4461 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4462 Three changes have been made:
4464 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4465 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4466 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4467 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4468 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4470 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4473 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4474 the modified behaviour.
4480 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4483 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4484 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4486 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4487 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4488 try to track down a specific problem.
4490 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4491 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4492 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4494 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4497 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4498 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4499 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4500 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4501 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4502 some earlier ones do not.
4504 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4506 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4507 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4508 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4509 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4510 address literals are enabled, of course).
4512 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4514 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4515 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4516 by a command such as
4520 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4522 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4524 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4525 remained set. It is now erased.
4527 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4528 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4530 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4531 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4532 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4533 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4534 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4535 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4536 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4537 appropriate error code.
4539 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4540 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4541 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4542 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4543 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4544 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4546 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4547 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4548 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4550 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4551 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4552 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4553 terminate the header.
4555 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4556 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4557 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4559 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4560 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4561 (4.30/29). In particular:
4563 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4566 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4567 to write a maildirsize file.
4569 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4570 the transport, the new value overrides.
4572 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4575 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4576 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4577 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4580 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4581 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4582 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4585 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4586 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4587 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4589 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4590 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4593 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4594 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4595 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4597 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4599 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4601 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4603 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4604 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4607 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4608 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4609 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4610 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4611 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4612 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4613 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4616 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4617 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4618 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4619 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4620 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4623 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4624 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4625 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4626 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4627 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4628 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4629 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4630 cached value only when the same options are set.
4632 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4634 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4635 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4636 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4637 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4638 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4640 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4641 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4642 it is clearly obsolete.
4644 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4647 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4648 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4649 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4652 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4653 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4654 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4655 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4656 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4658 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4659 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4660 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4661 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4663 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4665 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4667 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4668 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4671 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4672 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4673 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4674 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4675 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4676 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4679 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4680 with the -f command-line option.
4682 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4683 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4684 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4685 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4686 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4687 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4689 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4690 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4693 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4694 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4695 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4696 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4697 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4698 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4699 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4700 buffer is too small.
4702 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4703 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4705 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4706 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4707 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4708 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4709 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4710 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4711 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4712 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4713 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4715 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4716 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4717 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4719 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4720 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4723 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4724 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4725 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4726 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4727 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4729 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4730 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4731 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4732 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4735 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4737 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4739 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4740 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4742 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4743 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4744 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4746 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4747 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4748 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4749 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4750 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4752 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4753 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4754 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4755 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4756 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4757 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4758 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4760 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4761 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4762 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4763 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4764 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4765 the test of how many are available.
4767 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4768 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4769 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4770 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4771 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4772 new message is started.
4774 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4775 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4777 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4778 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4780 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4781 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4782 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4785 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4786 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4787 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4788 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4789 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4790 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4791 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4793 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4794 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4795 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4796 interpreted as octal.
4798 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4801 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4802 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4803 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4804 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4805 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4806 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4808 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4809 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4810 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4811 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4813 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4814 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4815 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4816 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4818 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4819 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4822 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4823 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4825 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4827 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4828 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4829 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4830 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4832 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4833 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4834 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4835 supplied", which is not helpful.
4837 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4838 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4839 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4841 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4842 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4843 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4844 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4845 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4846 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4847 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4848 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4850 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4851 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4852 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4853 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4854 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4856 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4857 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4858 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4859 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4860 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4861 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4863 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4864 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4865 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4867 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4869 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4870 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4871 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4874 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4876 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4877 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4878 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4879 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4880 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4881 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4882 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4883 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4885 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4886 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4887 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4888 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4889 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4891 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4894 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4895 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4896 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4897 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4898 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4899 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4900 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4901 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4902 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4908 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4909 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4910 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4912 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4915 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4916 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4917 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4919 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4920 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4921 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4922 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4923 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4924 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4926 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4927 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4928 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4929 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4930 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4931 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4932 the Exim test suite.
4934 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4935 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4936 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4937 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4939 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4940 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4941 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4942 specify it in this variable.
4944 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4945 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4946 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4947 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4949 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4950 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4951 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4952 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4954 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4955 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4956 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4957 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4958 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4960 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4962 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4965 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4966 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4967 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4968 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4969 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4971 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4972 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4974 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4975 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4976 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4977 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4978 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4980 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4981 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4983 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4984 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4985 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4987 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4988 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4990 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4991 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4993 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4994 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4995 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4997 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4998 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5000 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5001 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5002 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5003 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5005 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5007 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5008 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5009 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5010 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5012 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5014 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5015 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5017 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5019 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5020 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5021 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5022 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5023 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5024 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5026 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5028 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5029 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5032 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5034 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5035 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5037 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5038 550 Sender verify failed
5040 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5041 the final line of the response.
5043 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5044 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5045 all other user lookups.
5047 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5050 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5051 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5052 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5053 result into an int without checking.
5055 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5056 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5057 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5059 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5060 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5061 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5062 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5064 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5067 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5068 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5070 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5071 to the empty sender.
5073 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5074 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5075 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5076 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5077 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5078 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5079 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5082 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5083 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5084 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5085 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5088 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5089 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5091 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5094 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5095 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5097 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5099 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5100 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5103 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5104 as soon as it is encountered.
5106 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5108 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5111 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5112 recognizes a tab character.
5114 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5115 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5116 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5117 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5119 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5121 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5124 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5126 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5128 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5129 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5132 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5133 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5134 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5135 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5136 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5138 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5139 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5141 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5142 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5143 list (.included file names were always shown).
5145 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5146 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5147 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5150 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5151 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5153 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5155 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5157 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5159 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5160 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5161 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5162 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5163 failures to open the logs.
5165 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5166 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5167 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5168 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5169 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5170 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5171 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5177 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5178 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5179 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5182 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5183 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5184 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5186 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5187 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5188 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5190 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5191 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5192 causing some misleading effects.
5194 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5195 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5196 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5198 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5199 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5200 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5201 queue-runner function directly.
5207 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5210 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5211 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5212 was always written to the default place.
5214 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5215 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5216 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5218 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5220 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5222 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5223 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5224 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5226 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5227 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5230 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5231 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5232 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5234 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5235 command line option is disabled.
5237 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5238 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5240 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5242 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5244 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5245 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5247 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5249 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5250 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5251 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5252 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5253 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5254 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5256 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5257 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5260 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5261 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5263 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5264 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5266 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5267 received was valid base64.
5269 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5270 name of the variable that was being set.
5272 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5274 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5275 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5276 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5277 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5278 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5279 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5281 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5283 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5284 nor realm was specified.
5286 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5287 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5288 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5289 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5291 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5292 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5293 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5295 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5296 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5297 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5299 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5300 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5301 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5302 some systems use these upper case variants.
5304 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5305 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5306 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5307 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5309 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5311 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5312 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5314 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5315 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5318 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5320 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5321 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5322 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5323 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5325 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5328 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5329 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5330 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5332 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5333 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5335 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5336 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5337 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5338 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5340 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5341 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5342 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5344 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5346 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5347 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5348 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5349 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5352 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5353 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5354 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5356 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5358 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5359 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5361 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5362 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5364 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5365 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5366 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5367 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5368 when emails are that large.
5375 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5376 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5378 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5379 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5380 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5382 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5383 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5384 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5386 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5387 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5388 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5389 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5390 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5392 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5393 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5394 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5395 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5396 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5399 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5400 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5401 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5402 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5403 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5404 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5405 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5406 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5407 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5408 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5409 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5410 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5411 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5412 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5414 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5415 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5418 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5419 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5420 error should be diagnosed.
5422 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5423 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5424 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5425 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5426 appeared instead of "NULL".
5428 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5429 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5430 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5431 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5432 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5433 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5436 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5437 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5438 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5444 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5445 or receiver verification errors.
5447 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5450 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5451 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5452 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5453 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5455 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5456 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5457 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5458 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5459 shouldn't happen again.
5461 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5462 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5463 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5465 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5466 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5468 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5470 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5471 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5473 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5474 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5477 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5478 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5479 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5481 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5482 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5483 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5484 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5486 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5487 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5488 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5489 to define what should happen).
5491 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5492 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5493 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5495 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5497 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5499 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5500 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5502 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5503 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5504 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5505 structure in all cases.
5507 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5508 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5509 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5510 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5512 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5513 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5516 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5517 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5519 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5520 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5522 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5523 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5524 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5526 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5527 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5528 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5530 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5531 the book and for uniformity.
5533 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5535 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5536 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5537 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5538 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5539 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5540 non-existent command as the problem.
5542 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5543 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5544 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5546 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5548 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5549 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5550 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5552 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5553 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5554 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5555 timestamps using strftime().
5557 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5558 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5560 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5561 transport-time rewrites.
5563 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5564 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5565 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5566 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5568 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5569 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5571 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5572 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5573 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5574 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5577 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5578 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5579 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5580 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5581 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5582 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5583 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5585 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5586 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5587 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5588 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5589 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5591 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5592 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5593 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5594 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5595 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5596 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5597 remaining text gets split now.
5599 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5600 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5601 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5602 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5604 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5605 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5606 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5607 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5610 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5611 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5612 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5613 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5614 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5615 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5616 passed through if needed.
5618 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5619 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5620 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5621 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5622 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5623 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5625 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5626 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5627 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5628 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5629 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5631 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5632 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5633 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5634 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5635 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5637 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5638 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5641 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5642 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5643 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5644 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5645 mayhem of various kinds.
5647 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5648 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5649 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5650 the right test for positive values.
5652 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5653 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5654 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5655 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5656 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5657 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5658 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5659 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5660 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5661 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5664 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5667 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5668 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5671 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5672 the existing equality matching.
5674 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5675 dealing with inode numbers.
5677 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5678 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5679 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5681 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5682 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5683 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5684 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5687 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5688 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5689 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5690 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5691 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5692 relay addresses has also been removed.
5694 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5696 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5697 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5698 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5700 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5701 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5702 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5703 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5704 processing applies to CR:
5706 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5707 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5709 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5710 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5711 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5712 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5714 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5715 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5716 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5718 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5719 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5720 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5721 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5722 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5723 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5726 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5729 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5730 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5731 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5732 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5735 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5737 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5739 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5741 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5742 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5743 not considered personal.
5745 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5747 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5749 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5751 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5752 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5753 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5754 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5755 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5756 header lines, and spool format errors.
5758 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5759 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5760 for more flexibility.
5762 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5763 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5764 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5766 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5769 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5770 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5771 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5772 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5773 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5774 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5775 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5776 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5777 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5779 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5780 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5781 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5782 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5783 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5784 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5785 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5787 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5788 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5789 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5791 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5792 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5793 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5794 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5795 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5796 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5797 instead of killing the process with assert().
5799 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5800 than Unicode encoding.
5802 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5803 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5804 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5805 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5807 77. Added process_log_path.
5809 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5810 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5812 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5813 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5815 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5816 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5817 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5819 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5820 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5821 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5822 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5823 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5826 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5827 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5830 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5831 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5832 they will be used during message reception.
5838 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.