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 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
49 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
50 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
52 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
54 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
56 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
58 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
59 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
61 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
63 PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
65 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
66 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
68 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
69 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
72 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
74 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
76 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
77 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
79 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
82 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
83 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
85 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
86 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
88 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
91 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
94 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
97 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
99 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
100 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
101 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
102 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
104 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
106 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
107 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
108 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
109 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
112 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
113 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
114 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
116 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
117 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
118 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
119 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
121 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
122 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
123 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
124 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
125 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
126 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
127 delivery, as in LMTP.
129 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
130 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
132 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
134 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
138 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
139 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
140 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
141 username as equal to the username.
143 This change corrects that bug.
145 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
146 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
147 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
149 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
151 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
152 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
153 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
154 NULL dereference and crash.
156 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
158 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
159 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
160 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
162 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
164 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
165 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
166 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
167 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
168 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
169 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
170 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
171 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
172 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
173 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
174 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
176 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
177 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
179 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
180 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
183 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
184 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
185 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
186 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
187 an empty string is now equivalent.
189 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
190 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
191 not performing validation itself.
193 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
194 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
196 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
199 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
200 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
201 other false fix of the same issue.
202 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
205 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
206 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
208 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
209 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
210 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
212 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
213 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
214 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
216 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
218 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
220 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
221 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
227 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
229 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
235 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
236 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
237 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
239 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
241 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
244 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
246 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
248 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
250 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
251 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
253 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
254 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
256 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
257 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
259 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
260 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
261 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
263 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
265 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
266 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
268 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
270 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
272 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
273 non-compliant senders.
274 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
276 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
277 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
278 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
280 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
281 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
282 in spool file corruption.
284 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
285 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
286 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
289 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
290 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
291 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
293 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
294 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
296 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
298 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
300 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
302 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
303 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
304 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
306 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
307 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
308 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
309 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
311 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
312 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
314 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
315 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
316 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
317 resolver implementation change.
319 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
320 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
322 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
324 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
326 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
327 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
329 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
330 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
332 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
333 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
335 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
336 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
337 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
338 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
339 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
341 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
343 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
344 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
345 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
347 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
349 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
350 read-only, out of scope).
351 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
353 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
354 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
355 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
356 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
358 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
360 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
361 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
362 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
363 real issues in debug logging.
365 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
366 assignment on my part. Fixed.
368 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
369 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
370 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
372 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
373 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
374 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
377 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
378 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
380 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
381 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
382 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
383 needs to override this, it can.
385 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
386 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
387 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
389 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
390 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
391 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
392 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
394 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
400 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
401 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
403 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
405 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
408 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
409 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
411 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
412 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
413 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
415 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
416 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
417 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
418 not safe for signals.
420 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
421 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
422 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
423 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
426 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
428 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
429 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
430 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
431 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
432 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
434 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
435 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
436 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
437 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
438 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
439 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
441 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
442 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
443 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
444 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
446 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
447 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
448 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
449 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
451 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
452 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
453 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
454 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
455 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
456 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
457 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
458 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
459 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
461 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
462 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
463 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
464 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
466 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
467 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
468 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
469 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
470 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
471 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
472 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
473 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
474 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
475 details in the main documentation.
477 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
479 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
481 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
482 repository when doing development or release builds.
484 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
485 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
487 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
488 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
491 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
493 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
494 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
496 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
497 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
499 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
500 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
502 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
503 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
505 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
506 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
508 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
510 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
513 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
514 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
515 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
517 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
519 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
521 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
522 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
528 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
530 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
531 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
533 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
535 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
537 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
540 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
541 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
543 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
544 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
546 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
549 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
552 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
553 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
555 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
556 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
557 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
558 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
560 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
561 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
567 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
570 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
571 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
572 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
574 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
575 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
577 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
578 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
579 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
581 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
582 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
584 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
585 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
587 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
588 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
590 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
591 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
593 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
594 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
596 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
599 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
600 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
602 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
603 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
605 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
606 SQL string expansion failure details.
607 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
609 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
610 Patch from Simon Arlott.
612 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
613 extern declarations in function scope.
614 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
616 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
617 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
618 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
621 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
622 Patch from Mark Zealey.
624 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
625 Patch from Mark Zealey.
627 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
628 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
630 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
631 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
633 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
634 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
637 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
639 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
641 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
642 Patch by Simon Arlott
644 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
645 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
651 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
652 consequences so log it to the panic log.
654 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
655 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
657 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
659 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
660 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
661 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
663 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
664 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
665 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
667 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
668 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
669 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
670 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
672 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
673 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
674 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
675 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
677 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
678 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
679 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
682 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
685 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
686 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
687 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
688 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
689 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
695 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
696 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
697 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
699 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
700 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
702 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
704 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
706 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
708 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
710 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
712 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
713 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
714 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
715 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
717 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
718 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
719 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
720 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
721 more caution in buffer sizes.
723 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
725 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
727 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
729 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
731 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
733 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
735 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
737 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
738 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
739 ignore trailing whitespace.
741 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
743 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
746 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
747 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
749 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
750 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
751 Notification from John Horne.
753 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
756 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
757 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
760 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
763 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
764 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
765 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
767 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
768 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
769 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
772 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
773 option (effectively making it always true).
775 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
776 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
778 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
779 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
781 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
782 run-time user, instead of root.
784 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
785 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
787 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
788 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
791 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
792 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
793 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
795 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
797 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
803 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
804 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
807 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
808 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
811 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
812 Patch from Alain Williams
814 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
816 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
817 Patch from Andreas Metzler
819 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
820 Patch from Kirill Miazine
822 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
824 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
826 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
827 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
829 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
831 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
833 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
834 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
835 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
837 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
838 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
840 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
841 Patch by Simon Arlott
843 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
844 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
850 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
852 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
854 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
856 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
858 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
864 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
865 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
867 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
868 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
871 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
872 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
873 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
875 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
876 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
878 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
879 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
880 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
881 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
883 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
884 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
885 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
887 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
889 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
891 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
892 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
894 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
896 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
897 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
898 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
899 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
901 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
902 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
904 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
906 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
908 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
909 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
911 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
912 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
914 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
915 that they are available at delivery time.
917 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
919 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
920 incoming_port log selectors.
922 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
923 setting expands to an empty string.
925 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
926 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
928 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
929 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
931 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
932 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
934 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
935 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
937 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
938 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
940 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
941 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
943 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
945 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
946 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
948 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
949 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
951 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
953 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
954 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
956 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
958 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
960 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
963 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
964 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
966 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
967 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
969 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
970 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
972 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
973 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
975 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
976 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
978 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
979 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
981 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
982 plus update to original patch.
984 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
986 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
987 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
989 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
991 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
993 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
995 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
997 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
998 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1000 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1001 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1003 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1004 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1006 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1007 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1009 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1011 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1013 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1015 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1021 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1022 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1023 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1025 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1026 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1027 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1028 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1029 build errors in sieve.c.
1031 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1032 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1033 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1035 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1037 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1039 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1041 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1047 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1049 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1050 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1051 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1052 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1053 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1054 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1055 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1056 for iplsearch lookups.
1058 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1059 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1060 previously such lookups could never work.
1062 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1063 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1064 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1066 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1069 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1070 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1071 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1072 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1073 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1074 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1076 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1077 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1079 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1080 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1081 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1082 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1083 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1084 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1086 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1089 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1091 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1092 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1095 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1096 by clients under certain conditions.
1098 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1099 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1101 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1103 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1104 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1106 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1108 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1110 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1112 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1113 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1115 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1117 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1118 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1120 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1122 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1124 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1125 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1126 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1127 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1129 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1130 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1131 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1133 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1134 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1136 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1138 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1140 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1142 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1143 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1144 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1150 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1151 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1154 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1155 issue a MAIL command.
1157 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1159 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1161 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1162 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1163 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1164 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1165 item. This has been fixed.
1167 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1168 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1170 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1171 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1173 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1174 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1175 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1177 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1179 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1180 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1181 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1182 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1183 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1185 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1186 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1187 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1189 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1190 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1191 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1192 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1194 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1196 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1198 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1199 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1200 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1201 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1202 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1204 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1206 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1207 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1208 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1211 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1213 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1215 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1217 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1219 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1221 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1222 no_callout_flush is set.
1224 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1225 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1226 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1229 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1231 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1232 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1233 other ACL rejections are.
1235 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1236 with slight modification.
1238 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1239 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1241 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1242 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1245 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1246 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1248 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1250 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1251 expansion side effects.
1253 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1254 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1255 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1258 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1259 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1260 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1262 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1263 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1264 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1265 were accidentally chopped off.
1267 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1268 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1269 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1270 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1271 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1272 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1273 pipelining has not been advertised.
1275 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1277 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1278 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1279 This has been fixed.
1281 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1282 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1283 reported on Solaris.
1285 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1286 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1287 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1288 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1289 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1290 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1291 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1293 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1296 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1298 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1300 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1301 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1302 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1303 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1304 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1305 criteria to be more general.
1307 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1308 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1309 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1310 host_all_ignored option.
1312 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1313 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1314 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1315 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1316 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1317 is what is supposed to happen).
1319 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1320 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1321 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1322 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1323 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1326 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1327 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1328 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1329 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1330 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1331 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1334 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1336 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1337 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1339 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1340 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1342 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1344 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1346 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1347 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1348 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1349 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1350 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1351 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1352 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1353 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1354 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1355 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1356 least in a lot of common cases.
1358 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1359 advertised in response to EHLO.
1365 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1366 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1368 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1369 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1371 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1372 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1373 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1375 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1376 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1377 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1378 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1379 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1385 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1386 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1389 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1390 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1391 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1393 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1394 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1395 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1396 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1397 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1398 rather than extend the field.
1404 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1405 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1406 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1407 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1410 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1411 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1412 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1414 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1415 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1416 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1418 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1419 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1420 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1423 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1424 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1425 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1426 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1427 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1428 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1429 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1430 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1431 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1432 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1433 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1435 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1438 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1439 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1440 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1441 ignores EPIPE as well.
1443 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1444 (quoted-printable decoding).
1446 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1447 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1449 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1451 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1453 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1455 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1456 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1458 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1461 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1462 miscellaneous code fixes
1464 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1467 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1468 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1469 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1470 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1471 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1472 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1473 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1474 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1476 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1477 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1478 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1479 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1481 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1482 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1483 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1484 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1485 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1486 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1487 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1488 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1489 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1491 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1494 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1495 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1496 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1497 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1498 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1499 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1500 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1501 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1503 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1504 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1507 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1508 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1509 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1510 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1511 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1512 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1513 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1514 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1515 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1516 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1517 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1518 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1519 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1521 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1522 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1523 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1524 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1525 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1526 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1527 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1529 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1530 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1531 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1532 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1533 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1534 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1535 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1536 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1537 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1538 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1540 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1541 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1542 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1543 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1544 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1546 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1547 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1548 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1549 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1550 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1551 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1552 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1554 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1555 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1556 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1557 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1558 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1559 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1562 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1563 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1564 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1567 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1568 if any retry times were supplied.
1570 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1571 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1572 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1574 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1576 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1578 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1579 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1580 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1581 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1582 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1583 before) are ignored.
1585 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1586 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1588 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1589 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1590 committing the later change.]
1592 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1593 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1594 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1595 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1596 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1597 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1598 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1599 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1600 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1602 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1603 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1604 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1605 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1606 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1607 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1608 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1609 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1610 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1612 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1613 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1614 hammering the server.
1616 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1617 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1619 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1621 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1622 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1623 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1625 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1626 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1627 one case where this was not true.
1629 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1630 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1631 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1632 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1635 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1636 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1637 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1638 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1639 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1640 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1641 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1642 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1643 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1646 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1647 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1648 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1649 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1651 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1652 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1654 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1655 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1656 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1658 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1660 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1662 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1664 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1665 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1666 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1667 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1669 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1670 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1672 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1673 be meaningful with "accept".
1675 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1676 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1678 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1679 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1680 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1682 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1683 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1684 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1685 there is data to show.
1686 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1688 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1689 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1690 as well as the number of messages.
1692 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1693 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1694 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1696 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1697 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1698 have a flag are now skipped.
1700 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1701 Added the -emptyok flag.
1703 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1704 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1706 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1707 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1708 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1710 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1713 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1714 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1716 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1718 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1719 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1721 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1723 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1724 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1725 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1726 contravention of the specifications.
1728 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1729 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1730 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1732 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1733 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1734 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1736 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1738 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1739 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1740 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1741 some point in the past.
1743 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1744 transport during callout processing was broken.
1746 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1747 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1749 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1750 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1752 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1753 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1755 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1761 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1762 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1764 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1765 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1766 there is data to show.
1767 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1769 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1770 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1772 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1773 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1775 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1776 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1778 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1779 submissions from trusted users.
1781 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1782 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1784 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1785 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1786 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1787 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1788 there is now a framework to start from.
1790 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1791 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1792 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1794 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1796 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1798 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1800 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1801 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1802 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1804 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1807 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1808 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1809 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1811 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1812 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1813 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1816 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1817 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1818 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1819 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1820 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1822 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1823 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1825 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1827 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1828 operations in malware.c.
1830 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1833 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1834 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1835 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1838 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1839 statements to "add_header".
1841 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1842 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1844 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1845 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1848 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1852 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1853 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1854 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1857 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1858 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1860 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1861 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1863 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1864 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1865 any possible encoding problems.
1867 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1868 but not after initializing Perl.
1870 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1871 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1872 apparently, which is not desirable.
1874 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1877 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1880 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1882 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1883 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1884 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1885 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1887 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1888 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1889 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1891 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1892 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1893 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1896 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1897 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1898 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1899 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1900 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1906 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1907 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1909 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1912 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1913 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1914 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1915 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1916 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1917 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1918 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1919 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1922 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1924 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1925 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1926 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1928 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1929 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1930 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1933 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1934 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1936 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1937 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1938 option (which defaults to 0600).
1940 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1942 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1943 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1944 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1945 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1946 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1947 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1948 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1950 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1956 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1957 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1958 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1959 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1960 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1961 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1964 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1965 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1967 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1969 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1970 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1971 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1972 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1973 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1976 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1977 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1979 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1980 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1981 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1982 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1983 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1985 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1986 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1987 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1988 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1990 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1991 be the same on different OS.
1993 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1996 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1997 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1999 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2002 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2003 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2004 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2005 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2006 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2007 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2010 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2011 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2012 when Exim was called.
2014 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2015 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2017 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2018 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2019 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2020 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2022 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2023 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2024 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2025 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2028 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2029 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2030 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2032 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2033 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2034 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2036 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2039 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2040 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2041 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2042 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2043 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2044 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2045 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2046 values from the SRV records were lost.
2048 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2049 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2050 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2052 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2053 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2054 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2056 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2057 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2058 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2059 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2060 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2061 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2062 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2063 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2064 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2065 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2067 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2068 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2069 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2071 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2072 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2074 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2075 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2076 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2077 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2080 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2081 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2082 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2084 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2085 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2086 PH/23 above applies.
2088 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2089 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2090 (for which there is an explicit test).
2092 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2094 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2095 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2096 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2097 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2098 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2100 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2101 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2102 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2103 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2105 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2106 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2107 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2109 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2111 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2113 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2114 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2115 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2117 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2118 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2119 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2120 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2121 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2123 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2124 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2125 the message gets confusing).
2127 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2128 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2129 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2130 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2132 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2133 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2134 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2135 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2138 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2139 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2140 the different processes.
2142 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2144 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2146 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2147 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2149 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2150 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2152 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2153 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2154 messages matching specified criteria.
2156 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2158 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2159 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2161 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2162 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2163 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2164 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2165 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2166 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2167 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2168 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2169 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2170 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2172 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2173 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2174 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2176 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2178 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2179 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2180 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2181 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2182 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2183 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2184 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2187 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2188 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2190 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2192 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2194 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2196 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2197 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2198 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2199 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2200 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2201 size of the count of files.
2203 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2205 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2208 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2209 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2210 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2211 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2213 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2214 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2215 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2217 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2218 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2219 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2220 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2221 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2223 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2224 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2226 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2227 will now be deprecated.
2229 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2231 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2232 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2233 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2235 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2236 with very large, slow to parse queues
2238 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2240 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2242 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2243 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2244 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2247 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2248 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2249 Sieve code now uses this.
2251 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2252 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2254 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2255 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2257 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2259 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2260 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2261 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2262 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2263 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2265 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2266 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2267 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2268 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2270 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2272 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2274 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2275 is preferred over IPv4.
2277 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2278 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2279 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2280 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2281 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2282 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2283 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2285 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2286 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2287 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2289 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2291 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2292 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2293 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2294 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2295 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2296 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2297 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2298 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2299 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2300 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2301 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2303 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2304 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2305 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2311 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2313 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2314 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2316 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2317 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2318 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2320 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2322 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2325 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2328 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2329 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2330 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2333 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2334 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2336 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2337 inside the third argument.
2339 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2340 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2343 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2344 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2346 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2347 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2349 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2351 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2352 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2355 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2357 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2358 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2359 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2360 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2361 identical. For example:
2363 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2365 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2366 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2367 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2369 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2370 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2371 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2372 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2374 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2375 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2376 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2379 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2381 o fixes some comments
2382 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2383 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2384 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2385 and documents the missing references header update
2389 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2390 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2393 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2394 Electronic Mail") by including:
2396 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2398 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2399 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2400 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2401 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2402 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2404 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2406 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2408 The auto-replied keyword:
2410 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2411 message by an automatic process,
2413 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2415 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2416 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2418 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2419 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2422 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2423 to the default Received: header definition.
2425 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2427 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2428 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2429 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2431 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2432 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2433 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2435 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2436 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2437 and treats the condition as false.
2439 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2441 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2442 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2443 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2444 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2445 not changing the active code.
2447 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2448 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2450 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2451 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2453 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2456 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2457 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2458 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2459 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2460 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2461 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2462 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2463 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2464 the text comparison.
2466 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2467 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2468 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2469 The same fix has been applied.
2475 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2476 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2479 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2480 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2482 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2484 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2485 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2486 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2487 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2488 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2490 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2491 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2492 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2493 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2496 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2504 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2505 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2507 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2509 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2511 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2512 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2513 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2515 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2516 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2517 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2519 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2520 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2523 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2524 ${stat: expansion item.
2526 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2527 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2529 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2530 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2533 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2535 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2538 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2539 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2541 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2543 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2544 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2545 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2546 the end of the subprocess.
2548 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2549 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2550 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2551 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2552 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2554 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2556 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2558 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2559 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2561 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2563 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2565 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2566 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2569 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2571 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2572 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2573 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2575 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2576 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2578 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2579 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2581 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2582 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2584 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2585 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2587 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2588 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2589 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2590 contributed by a Radius user.
2592 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2593 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2595 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2596 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2598 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2601 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2602 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2605 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2606 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2607 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2608 header lines when this was not necessary.
2610 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2612 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2613 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2614 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2617 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2620 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2621 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2622 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2623 return code was incorrect.
2625 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2627 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2629 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2631 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2633 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2634 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2635 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2636 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2637 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2640 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2642 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2643 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2644 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2645 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2646 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2647 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2648 which is clearly wrong.
2650 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2652 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2653 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2654 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2657 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2658 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2660 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2662 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2663 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2665 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2666 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2668 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2669 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2671 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2672 recipients, not senders.
2674 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2675 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2677 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2679 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2681 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2682 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2683 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2684 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2686 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2688 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2689 clock is set back in time.
2691 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2692 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2694 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2695 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2697 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2698 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2701 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2702 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2705 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2708 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2710 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2711 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2712 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2714 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2715 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2716 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2717 helo verification defer as a failure.
2719 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2720 actual error message.
2726 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2728 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2729 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2730 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2731 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2733 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2735 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2736 can still be requested.
2738 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2739 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2740 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2741 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2743 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2744 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2745 circumstances, but probably never did.
2747 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2748 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2749 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2752 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2754 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2755 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2757 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2759 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2761 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2762 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2763 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2764 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2765 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2766 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2768 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2769 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2770 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2771 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2772 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2773 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2775 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2776 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2778 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2779 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2781 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2782 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2784 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2786 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2788 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2790 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2792 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2794 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2796 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2798 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2799 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2800 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2802 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2803 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2804 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2805 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2807 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2808 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2809 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2811 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2812 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2813 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2814 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2816 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2817 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2820 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2821 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2822 should work with maildirs and everything.
2824 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2825 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2827 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2830 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2831 function for BDB 4.3.
2833 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2835 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2836 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2839 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2840 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2841 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2842 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2843 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2844 formatting function string_vformat().
2846 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2847 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2848 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2849 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2850 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2851 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2852 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2853 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2855 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2856 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2859 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2860 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2862 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2863 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2864 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2865 test. It is now used for both.
2867 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2868 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2869 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2870 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2871 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2872 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2874 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2875 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2876 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2879 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2880 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2881 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2883 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2884 experimental DomainKeys support:
2886 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2887 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2888 the control was given.
2890 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2892 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2894 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2896 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2897 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2898 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2901 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2902 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2903 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2904 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2905 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2906 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2909 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2910 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2911 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2912 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2913 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2914 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2916 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2917 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2918 do -d+all out of habit.
2920 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2921 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2924 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2925 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2926 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2927 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2928 record types that Exim uses.
2930 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2931 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2932 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2933 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2934 non-existent file that was broken.
2936 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2937 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2939 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2940 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2941 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2943 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2945 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2946 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2947 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2948 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2949 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2952 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2953 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2954 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2955 at a slight CPU cost.
2957 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2958 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2960 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2963 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2965 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2966 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2972 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2973 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2975 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2977 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2979 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2980 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2982 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2983 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2984 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2985 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2986 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2987 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2990 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2991 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2992 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2993 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2996 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2997 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2998 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2999 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3000 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3001 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3002 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3005 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3006 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3008 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3009 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3010 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3011 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3012 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3013 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3015 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3016 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3017 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3018 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3020 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3023 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3024 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3026 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3027 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3028 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3029 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3032 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3034 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3035 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3037 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3038 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3039 to what was transported.)
3041 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3043 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3044 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3045 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3046 spamd_address settings.
3048 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3049 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3050 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3051 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3052 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3054 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3056 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3057 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3058 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3059 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3060 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3062 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3063 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3065 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3066 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3067 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3068 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3069 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3070 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3071 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3074 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3075 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3076 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3077 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3078 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3079 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3080 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3083 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3085 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3086 driver and ACL definitions.
3088 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3089 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3091 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3092 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3093 understands it better than I do:
3095 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3096 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3098 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3099 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3100 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3101 => three warnings about OTP not working
3102 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3104 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3105 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3106 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3107 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3109 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3110 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3112 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3113 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3114 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3116 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3117 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3120 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3121 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3124 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3125 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3126 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3128 warn !verify = sender
3129 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3131 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3132 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3134 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3136 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3137 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3139 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3140 nomenclature these days.)
3142 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3143 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3145 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3146 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3147 . First host does not offer TLS;
3148 . First host accepts first address;
3149 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3150 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3151 . Second host accepts second address.
3152 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3153 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3156 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3157 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3158 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3159 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3160 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3162 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3163 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3165 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3166 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3168 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3169 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3170 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3172 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3173 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3176 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3178 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3179 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3180 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3181 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3182 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3183 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3184 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3186 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3187 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3188 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3189 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3190 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3192 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3193 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3196 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3197 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3198 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3199 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3200 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3201 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3203 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3205 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3206 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3207 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3208 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3209 printable escape sequences.
3211 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3212 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3215 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3216 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3219 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3220 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3221 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3222 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3223 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3225 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3226 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3227 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3229 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3231 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3232 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3235 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3236 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3237 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3238 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3239 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3240 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3241 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3242 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3243 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3246 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3247 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3248 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3249 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3253 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3254 ----------------------------------------
3256 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3257 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3258 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3259 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3260 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3261 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3264 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3265 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3266 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3267 historical information.
3273 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3275 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3276 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3278 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3279 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3282 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3283 filter fails to execute.
3285 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3286 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3287 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3288 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3289 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3291 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3293 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3294 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3295 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3296 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3298 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3299 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3300 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3301 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3302 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3304 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3306 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3308 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3309 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3310 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3311 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3313 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3314 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3315 sender verification.
3317 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3318 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3320 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3322 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3325 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3326 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3328 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3329 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3331 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3332 information about exactly what failed.
3334 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3336 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3337 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3338 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3340 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3341 It is now set to "smtps".
3343 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3344 ignore_target_hosts.
3346 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3347 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3348 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3349 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3352 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3353 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3354 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3356 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3357 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3358 wake it up if nothing else does.
3360 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3361 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3362 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3365 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3366 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3368 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3370 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3371 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3372 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3373 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3374 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3375 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3376 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3377 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3379 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3380 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3381 than one IP address.
3383 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3384 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3385 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3386 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3388 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3389 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3390 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3391 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3392 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3395 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3396 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3397 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3398 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3400 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3401 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3404 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3405 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3406 $sender_host_address.
3408 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3409 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3410 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3411 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3412 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3415 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3417 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3418 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3420 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3421 just the host names, not the priorities.
3423 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3424 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3425 controlled by a keyword.
3427 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3428 multiple records are returned.
3430 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3431 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3434 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3436 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3437 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3439 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3440 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3441 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3443 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3445 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3447 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3449 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3450 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3451 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3452 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3453 because the tests only now provoked it.
3455 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3456 (this can affect the format of dates).
3458 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3459 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3460 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3461 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3463 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3465 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3466 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3467 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3468 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3470 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3471 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3472 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3474 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3477 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3478 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3479 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3480 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3481 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3482 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3485 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3486 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3487 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3490 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3491 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3492 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3494 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3495 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3496 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3497 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3498 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3499 so I produce this patch..."
3501 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3502 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3505 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3506 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3507 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3508 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3511 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3513 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3514 long debug lines gets shown.
3516 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3517 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3519 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3521 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3522 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3523 of $primary_hostname.
3525 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3526 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3527 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3528 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3529 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3530 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3531 by change 4.50/55 above.
3533 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3534 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3535 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3536 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3537 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3538 running as the user.
3541 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3542 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3543 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3546 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3547 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3549 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3550 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3551 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3552 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3553 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3555 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3556 This has been fixed.
3558 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3559 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3560 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3561 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3564 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3566 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3567 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3568 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3569 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3571 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3572 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3574 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3575 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3576 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3578 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3579 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3580 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3583 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3584 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3585 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3587 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3588 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3589 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3590 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3592 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3593 during host lookups.
3595 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3596 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3598 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3600 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3601 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3602 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3603 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3604 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3607 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3608 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3610 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3611 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3612 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3614 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3616 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3617 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3618 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3619 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3620 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3621 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3624 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3625 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3626 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3627 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3628 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3630 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3633 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3635 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3636 "vacation" handling.
3638 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3639 OS variants using glibc.
3641 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3644 ----------------------------------------------------
3645 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3646 ----------------------------------------------------
3652 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3653 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3656 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3657 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3660 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3661 filter fails to execute.
3663 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3664 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3665 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3666 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3667 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3669 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3670 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3671 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3672 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3674 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3675 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3676 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3677 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3678 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3680 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3682 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3683 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3684 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3685 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3687 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3688 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3689 sender verification.
3691 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3692 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3694 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3695 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3697 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3698 ignore_target_hosts.
3700 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3701 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3702 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3703 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3706 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3707 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3708 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3710 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3711 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3712 wake it up if nothing else does.
3714 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3715 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3716 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3719 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3720 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3722 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3724 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3725 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3728 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3729 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3732 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3733 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3734 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3735 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3736 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3739 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3740 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3743 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3744 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3745 $sender_host_address.
3747 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3749 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3750 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3751 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3753 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3756 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3757 (this can affect the format of dates).
3759 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3760 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3761 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3762 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3764 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3765 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3766 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3768 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3769 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3770 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3771 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3773 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3774 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3775 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3777 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3780 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3781 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3782 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3783 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3784 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3785 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3788 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3789 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3790 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3791 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3794 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3795 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3796 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3797 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3798 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3799 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3800 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3802 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3803 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3804 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3805 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3806 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3807 running as the user.
3810 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3811 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3812 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3815 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3816 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3817 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3818 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3819 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3821 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3822 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3823 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3824 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3827 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3828 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3829 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3830 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3831 because the tests only now provoked it.
3837 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3838 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3839 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3840 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3841 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3842 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3843 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3845 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3846 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3849 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3851 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3853 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3854 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3857 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3858 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3859 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3860 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3861 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3863 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3864 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3866 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3868 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3870 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3873 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3874 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3876 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3877 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3878 affecting debugging statements).
3880 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3882 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3883 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3884 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3885 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3886 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3887 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3888 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3889 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3890 after the received time, and all would be well.
3892 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3893 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3894 condition in an expansion string.
3896 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3898 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3899 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3900 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3901 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3902 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3903 job under whatever limits there are.
3905 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3907 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3910 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3911 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3912 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3913 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3916 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3917 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3918 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3919 binary data in such strings.
3921 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3923 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3924 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3925 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3926 failure, which is pointless.
3928 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3930 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3932 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3933 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3934 Sender: header lines.
3936 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3937 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3938 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3940 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3941 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3942 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3943 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3944 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3947 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3948 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3949 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3950 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3951 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3953 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3954 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3955 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3958 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3959 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3961 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3962 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3964 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3966 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3968 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3970 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3973 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3975 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3977 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3978 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3979 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3980 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3982 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3983 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3989 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3990 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3991 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3993 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3994 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3995 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3996 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3997 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3998 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4000 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4001 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4002 verification failure".
4004 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4005 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4006 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4007 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4009 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4010 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4011 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4012 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4013 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4014 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4015 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4016 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4017 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4018 treated as a timeout.
4020 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4021 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4022 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4023 not set for Exim filters).
4025 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4026 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4027 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4029 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4031 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4032 try to make them clearer.
4034 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4035 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4037 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4039 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4041 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4042 only the Cygwin environment.
4044 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4045 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4046 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4047 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4048 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4050 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4051 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4052 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4053 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4054 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4055 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4056 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4058 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4059 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4061 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4063 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4064 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4065 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4067 To: susanne@some.where
4069 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4070 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4071 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4072 of addresses in From: header lines).
4074 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4075 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4076 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4078 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4079 treated as non-personal.
4081 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4082 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4084 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4086 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4088 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4089 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4090 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4092 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4093 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4095 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4096 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4097 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4098 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4099 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4100 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4102 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4103 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4104 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4105 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4106 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4107 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4108 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4109 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4111 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4113 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4114 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4116 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4117 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4118 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4120 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4121 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4123 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4124 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4125 rather than long int.
4127 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4129 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4135 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4136 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4137 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4138 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4139 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4140 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4146 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4147 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4149 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4150 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4151 socklen_t is defined.
4153 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4156 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4159 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4160 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4161 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4162 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4163 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4165 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4166 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4167 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4168 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4170 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4171 of flapping under certain conditions.
4173 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4174 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4175 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4177 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4179 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4181 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4182 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4183 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4184 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4186 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4187 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4188 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4189 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4190 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4191 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4192 preserved with the message after it was received.
4194 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4195 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4196 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4197 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4198 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4199 test suite worked just fine.
4201 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4202 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4203 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4205 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4206 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4209 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4210 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4211 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4212 does not fully solve it.
4214 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4215 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4216 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4217 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4218 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4220 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4221 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4222 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4224 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4225 string, for example:
4227 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4229 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4230 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4231 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4232 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4233 the routers could not see them.
4235 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4236 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4238 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4239 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4242 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4243 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4244 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4245 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4246 that needed quoting.
4248 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4249 was not being matched caselessly.
4251 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4254 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4255 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4256 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4257 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4258 when use_sender is false.
4260 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4262 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4264 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4266 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4267 the configuration file.
4269 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4270 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4272 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4274 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4275 bytes in the message body.
4277 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4278 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4281 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4283 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4285 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4286 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4287 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4288 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4295 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4296 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4298 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4299 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4300 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4301 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4302 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4304 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4305 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4307 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4308 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4309 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4311 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4312 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4313 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4315 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4318 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4319 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4320 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4321 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4322 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4323 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4324 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4330 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4331 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4332 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4333 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4334 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4335 default (and expected) setting.
4337 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4338 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4339 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4340 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4342 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4343 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4345 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4348 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4349 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4350 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4351 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4352 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4353 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4355 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4356 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4357 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4359 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4360 part (NOT match_host).
4362 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4364 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4365 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4366 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4367 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4368 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4369 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4370 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4371 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4372 the same named file.
4374 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4375 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4378 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4379 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4380 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4381 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4384 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4385 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4386 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4388 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4390 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4392 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4394 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4395 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4397 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4398 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4399 before starting the TLS session.
4401 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4403 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4404 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4406 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4407 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4408 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4409 colon in the middle).
4415 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4416 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4417 multiple configurations are in use.
4419 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4420 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4421 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4422 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4423 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4424 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4426 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4427 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4429 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4430 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4431 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4433 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4434 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4437 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4438 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4440 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4442 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4443 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4445 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4453 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4454 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4455 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4456 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4457 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4459 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4462 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4463 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4464 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4465 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4466 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4467 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4469 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4470 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4471 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4472 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4473 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4474 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4475 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4478 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4479 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4480 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4481 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4482 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4484 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4486 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4487 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4488 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4490 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4492 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4493 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4494 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4497 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4498 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4500 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4501 Three changes have been made:
4503 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4504 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4505 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4506 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4507 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4509 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4512 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4513 the modified behaviour.
4519 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4522 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4523 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4525 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4526 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4527 try to track down a specific problem.
4529 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4530 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4531 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4533 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4536 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4537 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4538 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4539 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4540 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4541 some earlier ones do not.
4543 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4545 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4546 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4547 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4548 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4549 address literals are enabled, of course).
4551 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4553 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4554 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4555 by a command such as
4559 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4561 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4563 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4564 remained set. It is now erased.
4566 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4567 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4569 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4570 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4571 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4572 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4573 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4574 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4575 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4576 appropriate error code.
4578 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4579 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4580 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4581 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4582 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4583 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4585 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4586 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4587 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4589 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4590 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4591 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4592 terminate the header.
4594 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4595 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4596 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4598 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4599 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4600 (4.30/29). In particular:
4602 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4605 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4606 to write a maildirsize file.
4608 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4609 the transport, the new value overrides.
4611 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4614 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4615 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4616 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4619 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4620 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4621 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4624 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4625 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4626 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4628 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4629 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4632 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4633 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4634 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4636 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4638 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4640 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4642 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4643 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4646 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4647 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4648 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4649 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4650 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4651 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4652 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4655 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4656 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4657 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4658 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4659 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4662 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4663 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4664 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4665 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4666 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4667 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4668 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4669 cached value only when the same options are set.
4671 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4673 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4674 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4675 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4676 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4677 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4679 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4680 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4681 it is clearly obsolete.
4683 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4686 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4687 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4688 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4691 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4692 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4693 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4694 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4695 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4697 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4698 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4699 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4700 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4702 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4704 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4706 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4707 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4710 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4711 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4712 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4713 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4714 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4715 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4718 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4719 with the -f command-line option.
4721 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4722 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4723 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4724 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4725 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4726 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4728 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4729 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4732 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4733 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4734 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4735 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4736 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4737 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4738 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4739 buffer is too small.
4741 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4742 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4744 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4745 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4746 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4747 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4748 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4749 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4750 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4751 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4752 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4754 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4755 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4756 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4758 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4759 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4762 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4763 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4764 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4765 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4766 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4768 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4769 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4770 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4771 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4774 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4776 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4778 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4779 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4781 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4782 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4783 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4785 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4786 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4787 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4788 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4789 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4791 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4792 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4793 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4794 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4795 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4796 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4797 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4799 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4800 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4801 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4802 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4803 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4804 the test of how many are available.
4806 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4807 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4808 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4809 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4810 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4811 new message is started.
4813 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4814 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4816 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4817 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4819 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4820 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4821 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4824 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4825 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4826 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4827 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4828 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4829 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4830 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4832 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4833 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4834 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4835 interpreted as octal.
4837 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4840 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4841 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4842 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4843 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4844 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4845 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4847 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4848 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4849 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4850 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4852 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4853 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4854 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4855 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4857 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4858 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4861 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4862 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4864 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4866 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4867 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4868 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4869 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4871 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4872 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4873 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4874 supplied", which is not helpful.
4876 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4877 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4878 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4880 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4881 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4882 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4883 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4884 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4885 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4886 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4887 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4889 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4890 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4891 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4892 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4893 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4895 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4896 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4897 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4898 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4899 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4900 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4902 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4903 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4904 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4906 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4908 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4909 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4910 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4913 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4915 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4916 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4917 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4918 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4919 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4920 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4921 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4922 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4924 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4925 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4926 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4927 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4928 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4930 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4933 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4934 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4935 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4936 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4937 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4938 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4939 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4940 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4941 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4947 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4948 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4949 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4951 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4954 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4955 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4956 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4958 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4959 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4960 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4961 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4962 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4963 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4965 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4966 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4967 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4968 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4969 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4970 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4971 the Exim test suite.
4973 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4974 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4975 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4976 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4978 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4979 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4980 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4981 specify it in this variable.
4983 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4984 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4985 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4986 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4988 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4989 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4990 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4991 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4993 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4994 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4995 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4996 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4997 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4999 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5001 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5004 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5005 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5006 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5007 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5008 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5010 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5011 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5013 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5014 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5015 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5016 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5017 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5019 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5020 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5022 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5023 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5024 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5026 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5027 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5029 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5030 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5032 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5033 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5034 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5036 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5037 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5039 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5040 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5041 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5042 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5044 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5046 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5047 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5048 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5049 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5051 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5053 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5054 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5056 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5058 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5059 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5060 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5061 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5062 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5063 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5065 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5067 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5068 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5071 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5073 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5074 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5076 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5077 550 Sender verify failed
5079 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5080 the final line of the response.
5082 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5083 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5084 all other user lookups.
5086 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5089 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5090 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5091 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5092 result into an int without checking.
5094 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5095 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5096 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5098 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5099 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5100 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5101 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5103 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5106 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5107 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5109 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5110 to the empty sender.
5112 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5113 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5114 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5115 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5116 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5117 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5118 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5121 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5122 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5123 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5124 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5127 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5128 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5130 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5133 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5134 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5136 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5138 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5139 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5142 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5143 as soon as it is encountered.
5145 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5147 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5150 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5151 recognizes a tab character.
5153 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5154 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5155 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5156 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5158 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5160 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5163 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5165 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5167 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5168 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5171 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5172 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5173 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5174 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5175 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5177 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5178 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5180 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5181 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5182 list (.included file names were always shown).
5184 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5185 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5186 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5189 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5190 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5192 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5194 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5196 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5198 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5199 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5200 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5201 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5202 failures to open the logs.
5204 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5205 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5206 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5207 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5208 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5209 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5210 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5216 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5217 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5218 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5221 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5222 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5223 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5225 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5226 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5227 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5229 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5230 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5231 causing some misleading effects.
5233 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5234 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5235 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5237 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5238 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5239 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5240 queue-runner function directly.
5246 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5249 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5250 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5251 was always written to the default place.
5253 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5254 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5255 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5257 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5259 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5261 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5262 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5263 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5265 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5266 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5269 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5270 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5271 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5273 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5274 command line option is disabled.
5276 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5277 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5279 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5281 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5283 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5284 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5286 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5288 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5289 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5290 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5291 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5292 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5293 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5295 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5296 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5299 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5300 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5302 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5303 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5305 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5306 received was valid base64.
5308 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5309 name of the variable that was being set.
5311 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5313 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5314 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5315 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5316 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5317 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5318 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5320 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5322 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5323 nor realm was specified.
5325 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5326 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5327 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5328 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5330 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5331 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5332 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5334 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5335 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5336 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5338 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5339 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5340 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5341 some systems use these upper case variants.
5343 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5344 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5345 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5346 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5348 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5350 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5351 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5353 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5354 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5357 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5359 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5360 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5361 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5362 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5364 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5367 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5368 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5369 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5371 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5372 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5374 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5375 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5376 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5377 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5379 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5380 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5381 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5383 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5385 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5386 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5387 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5388 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5391 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5392 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5393 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5395 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5397 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5398 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5400 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5401 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5403 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5404 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5405 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5406 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5407 when emails are that large.
5414 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5415 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5417 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5418 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5419 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5421 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5422 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5423 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5425 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5426 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5427 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5428 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5429 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5431 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5432 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5433 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5434 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5435 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5438 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5439 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5440 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5441 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5442 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5443 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5444 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5445 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5446 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5447 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5448 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5449 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5450 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5451 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5453 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5454 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5457 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5458 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5459 error should be diagnosed.
5461 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5462 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5463 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5464 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5465 appeared instead of "NULL".
5467 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5468 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5469 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5470 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5471 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5472 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5475 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5476 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5477 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5483 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5484 or receiver verification errors.
5486 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5489 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5490 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5491 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5492 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5494 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5495 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5496 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5497 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5498 shouldn't happen again.
5500 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5501 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5502 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5504 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5505 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5507 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5509 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5510 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5512 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5513 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5516 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5517 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5518 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5520 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5521 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5522 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5523 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5525 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5526 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5527 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5528 to define what should happen).
5530 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5531 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5532 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5534 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5536 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5538 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5539 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5541 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5542 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5543 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5544 structure in all cases.
5546 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5547 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5548 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5549 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5551 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5552 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5555 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5556 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5558 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5559 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5561 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5562 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5563 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5565 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5566 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5567 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5569 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5570 the book and for uniformity.
5572 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5574 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5575 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5576 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5577 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5578 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5579 non-existent command as the problem.
5581 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5582 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5583 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5585 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5587 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5588 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5589 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5591 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5592 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5593 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5594 timestamps using strftime().
5596 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5597 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5599 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5600 transport-time rewrites.
5602 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5603 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5604 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5605 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5607 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5608 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5610 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5611 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5612 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5613 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5616 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5617 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5618 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5619 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5620 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5621 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5622 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5624 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5625 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5626 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5627 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5628 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5630 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5631 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5632 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5633 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5634 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5635 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5636 remaining text gets split now.
5638 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5639 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5640 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5641 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5643 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5644 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5645 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5646 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5649 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5650 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5651 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5652 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5653 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5654 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5655 passed through if needed.
5657 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5658 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5659 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5660 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5661 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5662 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5664 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5665 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5666 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5667 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5668 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5670 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5671 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5672 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5673 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5674 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5676 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5677 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5680 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5681 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5682 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5683 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5684 mayhem of various kinds.
5686 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5687 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5688 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5689 the right test for positive values.
5691 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5692 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5693 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5694 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5695 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5696 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5697 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5698 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5699 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5700 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5703 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5706 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5707 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5710 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5711 the existing equality matching.
5713 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5714 dealing with inode numbers.
5716 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5717 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5718 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5720 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5721 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5722 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5723 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5726 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5727 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5728 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5729 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5730 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5731 relay addresses has also been removed.
5733 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5735 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5736 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5737 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5739 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5740 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5741 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5742 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5743 processing applies to CR:
5745 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5746 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5748 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5749 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5750 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5751 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5753 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5754 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5755 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5757 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5758 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5759 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5760 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5761 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5762 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5765 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5768 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5769 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5770 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5771 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5774 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5776 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5778 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5780 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5781 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5782 not considered personal.
5784 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5786 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5788 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5790 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5791 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5792 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5793 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5794 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5795 header lines, and spool format errors.
5797 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5798 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5799 for more flexibility.
5801 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5802 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5803 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5805 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5808 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5809 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5810 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5811 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5812 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5813 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5814 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5815 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5816 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5818 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5819 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5820 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5821 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5822 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5823 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5824 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5826 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5827 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5828 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5830 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5831 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5832 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5833 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5834 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5835 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5836 instead of killing the process with assert().
5838 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5839 than Unicode encoding.
5841 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5842 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5843 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5844 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5846 77. Added process_log_path.
5848 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5849 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5851 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5852 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5854 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5855 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5856 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5858 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5859 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5860 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5861 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5862 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5865 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5866 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5869 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5870 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5871 they will be used during message reception.
5877 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.