1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.112 2005/04/06 10:06:14 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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10 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
11 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
13 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
15 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
17 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
18 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
20 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
21 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
22 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
23 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
24 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
25 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
28 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
29 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
30 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
31 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
34 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
35 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
36 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
37 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
38 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
39 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
40 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
43 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
44 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
46 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
47 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
48 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
49 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
50 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
51 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
53 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
54 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
55 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
56 SMTP commands that take arguments.
58 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
61 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
62 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
64 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
65 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
66 whatever). Otherwise not only does the password appear in the log, it may
67 also be put in a bounce message.
69 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
71 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
72 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
74 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
75 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
76 to what was transported.)
78 TF/01 Added $received_time.
80 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
81 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
82 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
83 spamd_address settings.
85 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
86 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
87 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
88 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
89 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
91 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
93 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
94 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
95 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
96 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
97 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
99 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
100 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
102 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
103 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
104 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
105 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
106 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
107 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
108 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
111 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
112 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
113 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
114 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
115 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
116 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
117 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
120 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
122 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
123 driver and ACL definitions.
125 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
126 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
128 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
129 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
130 understands it better than I do:
132 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
133 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
135 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
136 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
137 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
138 => three warnings about OTP not working
139 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
141 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
142 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
143 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
144 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
146 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
147 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
149 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
150 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
151 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
153 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
154 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
158 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
159 ----------------------------------------
161 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
162 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
163 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
164 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
165 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
166 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
169 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
170 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
171 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
172 historical information.
178 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
180 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
181 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
183 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
184 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
187 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
188 filter fails to execute.
190 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
191 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
192 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
193 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
194 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
196 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
198 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
199 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
200 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
201 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
203 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
204 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
205 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
206 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
207 control that does not make sense is encountered.
209 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
211 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
213 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
214 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
215 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
216 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
218 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
219 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
222 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
223 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
225 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
227 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
230 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
231 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
233 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
234 the spool by the -Mrm option.
236 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
237 information about exactly what failed.
239 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
241 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
242 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
243 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
245 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
246 It is now set to "smtps".
248 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
251 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
252 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
253 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
254 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
257 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
258 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
259 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
261 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
262 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
263 wake it up if nothing else does.
265 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
266 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
267 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
270 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
271 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
273 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
275 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
276 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
277 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
278 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
279 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
280 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
281 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
282 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
284 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
285 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
288 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
289 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
290 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
291 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
293 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
294 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
295 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
296 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
297 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
300 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
301 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
302 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
303 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
305 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
306 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
309 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
310 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
311 $sender_host_address.
313 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
314 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
315 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
316 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
317 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
320 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
322 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
323 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
325 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
326 just the host names, not the priorities.
328 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
329 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
330 controlled by a keyword.
332 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
333 multiple records are returned.
335 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
336 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
339 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
341 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
342 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
344 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
345 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
346 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
348 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
350 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
352 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
354 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
355 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
356 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
357 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
358 because the tests only now provoked it.
360 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
361 (this can affect the format of dates).
363 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
364 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
365 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
366 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
368 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
370 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
371 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
372 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
373 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
375 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
376 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
377 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
379 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
382 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
383 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
384 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
385 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
386 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
387 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
390 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
391 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
392 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
395 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
396 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
397 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
399 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
400 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
401 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
402 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
403 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
404 so I produce this patch..."
406 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
407 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
410 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
411 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
412 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
413 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
416 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
418 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
419 long debug lines gets shown.
421 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
422 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
424 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
426 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
427 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
428 of $primary_hostname.
430 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
431 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
432 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
433 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
434 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
435 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
436 by change 4.50/55 above.
438 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
439 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
440 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
441 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
442 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
446 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
447 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
448 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
451 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
452 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
454 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
455 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
456 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
457 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
458 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
460 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
463 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
464 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
465 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
466 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
469 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
471 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
472 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
473 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
474 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
476 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
477 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
479 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
480 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
481 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
483 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
484 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
485 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
488 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
489 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
490 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
492 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
493 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
494 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
495 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
497 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
500 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
501 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
503 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
505 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
506 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
507 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
508 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
509 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
512 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
513 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
515 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
516 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
517 for the non-SMTP ACL.
519 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
521 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
522 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
523 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
524 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
525 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
526 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
529 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
530 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
531 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
532 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
533 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
535 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
538 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
540 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
543 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
544 OS variants using glibc.
546 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
549 ----------------------------------------------------
550 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
551 ----------------------------------------------------
557 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
558 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
561 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
562 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
565 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
566 filter fails to execute.
568 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
569 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
570 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
571 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
572 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
574 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
575 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
576 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
577 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
579 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
580 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
581 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
582 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
583 control that does not make sense is encountered.
585 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
587 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
588 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
589 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
590 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
592 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
593 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
596 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
597 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
599 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
600 the spool by the -Mrm option.
602 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
605 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
606 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
607 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
608 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
611 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
612 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
613 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
615 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
616 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
617 wake it up if nothing else does.
619 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
620 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
621 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
624 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
625 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
627 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
629 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
630 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
633 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
634 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
637 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
638 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
639 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
640 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
641 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
644 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
645 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
648 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
649 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
650 $sender_host_address.
652 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
654 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
655 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
656 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
658 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
661 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
662 (this can affect the format of dates).
664 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
665 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
666 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
667 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
669 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
670 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
671 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
673 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
674 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
675 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
676 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
678 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
679 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
680 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
682 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
685 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
686 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
687 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
688 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
689 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
690 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
693 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
694 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
695 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
696 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
699 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
700 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
701 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
702 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
703 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
704 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
705 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
707 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
708 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
709 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
710 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
711 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
715 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
716 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
717 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
720 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
721 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
722 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
723 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
724 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
726 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
727 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
728 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
729 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
732 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
733 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
734 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
735 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
736 because the tests only now provoked it.
742 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
743 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
744 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
745 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
746 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
747 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
748 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
750 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
751 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
754 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
756 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
758 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
759 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
762 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
763 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
764 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
765 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
766 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
768 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
769 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
771 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
773 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
775 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
778 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
779 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
781 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
782 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
783 affecting debugging statements).
785 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
787 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
788 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
789 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
790 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
791 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
792 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
793 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
794 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
795 after the received time, and all would be well.
797 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
798 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
799 condition in an expansion string.
801 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
803 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
804 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
805 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
806 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
807 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
808 job under whatever limits there are.
810 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
812 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
815 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
816 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
817 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
818 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
821 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
822 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
823 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
824 binary data in such strings.
826 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
828 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
829 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
830 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
831 failure, which is pointless.
833 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
835 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
837 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
838 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
839 Sender: header lines.
841 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
842 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
843 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
845 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
846 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
847 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
848 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
849 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
852 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
853 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
854 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
855 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
856 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
858 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
859 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
860 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
863 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
864 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
866 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
867 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
869 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
871 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
873 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
875 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
878 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
880 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
882 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
883 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
884 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
885 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
887 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
888 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
894 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
895 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
896 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
898 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
899 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
900 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
901 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
902 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
903 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
905 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
906 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
907 verification failure".
909 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
910 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
911 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
912 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
914 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
915 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
916 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
917 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
918 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
919 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
920 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
921 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
922 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
923 treated as a timeout.
925 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
926 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
927 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
928 not set for Exim filters).
930 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
931 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
932 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
934 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
936 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
937 try to make them clearer.
939 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
940 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
942 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
944 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
946 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
947 only the Cygwin environment.
949 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
950 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
951 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
952 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
953 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
955 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
956 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
957 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
958 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
959 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
960 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
961 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
963 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
964 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
966 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
968 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
969 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
970 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
972 To: susanne@some.where
974 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
975 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
976 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
977 of addresses in From: header lines).
979 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
980 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
981 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
983 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
984 treated as non-personal.
986 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
987 because it now seems ill-conceived.
989 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
991 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
993 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
994 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
995 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
997 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
998 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1000 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1001 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1002 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1003 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1004 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1005 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1007 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1008 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1009 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1010 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1011 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1012 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1013 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1014 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1016 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1018 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1019 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1021 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1022 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1023 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1025 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1026 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1028 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1029 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1030 rather than long int.
1032 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1034 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1040 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1041 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1042 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1043 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1044 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1045 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1051 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1052 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1054 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1055 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1056 socklen_t is defined.
1058 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1061 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1064 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1065 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1066 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1067 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1068 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1070 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1071 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1072 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1073 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1075 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1076 of flapping under certain conditions.
1078 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1079 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1080 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1082 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1084 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1086 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1087 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1088 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1089 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1091 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1092 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1093 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1094 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1095 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1096 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1097 preserved with the message after it was received.
1099 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1100 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1101 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1102 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1103 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1104 test suite worked just fine.
1106 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1107 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1108 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1110 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1111 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1114 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1115 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1116 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1117 does not fully solve it.
1119 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1120 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1121 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1122 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1123 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1125 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1126 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1127 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1129 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1130 string, for example:
1132 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1134 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1135 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1136 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1137 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1138 the routers could not see them.
1140 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1141 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1143 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1144 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1147 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1148 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1149 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1150 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1151 that needed quoting.
1153 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1154 was not being matched caselessly.
1156 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1159 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1160 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1161 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1162 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1163 when use_sender is false.
1165 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1167 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1169 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1171 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1172 the configuration file.
1174 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1175 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1177 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1179 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1180 bytes in the message body.
1182 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1183 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1186 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1188 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1190 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1191 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1192 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1193 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1200 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1201 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1203 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1204 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1205 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1206 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1207 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1209 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1210 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1212 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1213 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1214 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1216 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1217 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1218 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1220 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1223 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1224 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1225 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1226 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1227 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1228 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1229 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1235 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1236 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1237 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1238 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1239 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1240 default (and expected) setting.
1242 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1243 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1244 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1245 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1247 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1248 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1250 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1253 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1254 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1255 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1256 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1257 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1258 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1260 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1261 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1262 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1264 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1265 part (NOT match_host).
1267 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1269 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1270 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1271 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1272 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1273 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1274 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1275 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1276 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1277 the same named file.
1279 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1280 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1283 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1284 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1285 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1286 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1289 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1290 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1291 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1293 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1295 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1297 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1299 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1300 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1302 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1303 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1304 before starting the TLS session.
1306 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1308 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1309 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1311 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1312 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1313 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1314 colon in the middle).
1320 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1321 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1322 multiple configurations are in use.
1324 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1325 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1326 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1327 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1328 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1329 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1331 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1332 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1334 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1335 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1336 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1338 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1339 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1342 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1343 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1345 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1347 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1348 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1350 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1358 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1359 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1360 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1361 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1362 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1364 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1367 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1368 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1369 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1370 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1371 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1372 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1374 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1375 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1376 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1377 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1378 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1379 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1380 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1383 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1384 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1385 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1386 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1387 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1389 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1391 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1392 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1393 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1395 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1397 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1398 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1399 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1402 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1403 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1405 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1406 Three changes have been made:
1408 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1409 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1410 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1411 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1412 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1414 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1417 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1418 the modified behaviour.
1424 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1427 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1428 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1430 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1431 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1432 try to track down a specific problem.
1434 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1435 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1436 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1438 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1441 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1442 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1443 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1444 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1445 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1446 some earlier ones do not.
1448 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1450 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1451 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1452 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1453 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1454 address literals are enabled, of course).
1456 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
1458 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
1459 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
1460 by a command such as
1464 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
1466 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
1468 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
1469 remained set. It is now erased.
1471 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
1472 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
1474 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
1475 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
1476 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
1477 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
1478 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
1479 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
1480 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
1481 appropriate error code.
1483 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
1484 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
1485 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
1486 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
1487 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
1488 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
1490 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
1491 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
1492 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
1494 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
1495 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
1496 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
1497 terminate the header.
1499 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
1500 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
1501 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
1503 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
1504 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
1505 (4.30/29). In particular:
1507 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
1510 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
1511 to write a maildirsize file.
1513 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
1514 the transport, the new value overrides.
1516 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
1519 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
1520 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
1521 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
1524 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
1525 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
1526 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
1529 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
1530 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
1531 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
1533 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
1534 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
1537 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
1538 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
1539 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
1541 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
1543 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
1545 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
1547 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
1548 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
1551 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
1552 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
1553 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
1554 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
1555 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
1556 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
1557 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
1560 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
1561 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
1562 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
1563 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
1564 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
1567 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
1568 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
1569 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
1570 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
1571 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
1572 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
1573 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
1574 cached value only when the same options are set.
1576 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
1578 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
1579 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
1580 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
1581 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
1582 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
1584 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
1585 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
1586 it is clearly obsolete.
1588 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
1591 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
1592 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
1593 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
1596 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
1597 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
1598 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
1599 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
1600 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
1602 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
1603 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
1604 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
1605 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
1607 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
1609 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
1611 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
1612 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
1615 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
1616 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
1617 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
1618 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
1619 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
1620 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
1623 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
1624 with the -f command-line option.
1626 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
1627 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
1628 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
1629 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
1630 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
1631 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1633 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
1634 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
1637 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
1638 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
1639 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
1640 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
1641 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
1642 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
1643 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
1644 buffer is too small.
1646 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
1647 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
1649 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
1650 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
1651 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
1652 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
1653 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
1654 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
1655 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
1656 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
1657 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
1659 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
1660 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
1661 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
1663 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
1664 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
1667 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
1668 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
1669 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
1670 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
1671 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
1673 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
1674 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
1675 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
1676 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
1679 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
1681 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
1683 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
1684 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
1686 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
1687 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
1688 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
1690 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
1691 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
1692 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
1693 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
1694 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
1696 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
1697 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
1698 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
1699 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
1700 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
1701 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
1702 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
1704 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
1705 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
1706 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
1707 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
1708 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
1709 the test of how many are available.
1711 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
1712 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
1713 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
1714 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
1715 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
1716 new message is started.
1718 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
1719 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
1721 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
1722 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
1724 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
1725 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
1726 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
1729 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
1730 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
1731 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
1732 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
1733 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
1734 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
1735 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
1737 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
1738 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
1739 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
1740 interpreted as octal.
1742 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
1745 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
1746 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
1747 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
1748 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
1749 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
1750 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
1752 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
1753 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
1754 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
1755 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
1757 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
1758 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
1759 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
1760 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
1762 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
1763 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
1766 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
1767 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
1769 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1771 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
1772 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
1773 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
1774 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
1776 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
1777 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
1778 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
1779 supplied", which is not helpful.
1781 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
1782 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
1783 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
1785 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
1786 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
1787 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
1788 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
1789 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
1790 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
1791 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
1792 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
1794 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
1795 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
1796 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
1797 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
1798 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
1800 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
1801 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
1802 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
1803 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
1804 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
1805 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
1807 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
1808 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
1809 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
1811 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
1813 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
1814 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
1815 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
1818 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
1820 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
1821 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
1822 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
1823 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
1824 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
1825 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
1826 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
1827 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
1829 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
1830 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
1831 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
1832 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
1833 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
1835 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
1838 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
1839 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
1840 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
1841 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
1842 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
1843 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
1844 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
1845 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
1846 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
1852 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
1853 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
1854 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
1856 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
1859 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
1860 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
1861 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
1863 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
1864 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
1865 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
1866 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
1867 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
1868 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
1870 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
1871 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
1872 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
1873 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
1874 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
1875 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
1876 the Exim test suite.
1878 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
1879 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
1880 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
1881 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
1883 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
1884 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
1885 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
1886 specify it in this variable.
1888 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
1889 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
1890 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
1891 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
1893 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
1894 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
1895 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
1896 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
1898 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
1899 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
1900 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
1901 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
1902 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
1904 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
1906 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
1909 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
1910 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
1911 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
1912 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
1913 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
1915 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
1916 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
1918 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
1919 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
1920 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
1921 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
1922 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
1924 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
1925 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
1927 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
1928 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1929 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
1931 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
1932 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
1934 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
1935 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
1937 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
1938 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
1939 to get rid of the compiler warning.
1941 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
1942 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
1944 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
1945 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
1946 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
1947 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
1949 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
1951 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
1952 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
1953 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
1954 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
1956 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
1958 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
1959 line; previously there was no indication of these.
1961 25. Added .include_if_exists.
1963 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
1964 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
1965 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
1966 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
1967 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
1968 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
1970 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
1972 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
1973 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
1976 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
1978 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
1979 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
1981 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
1982 550 Sender verify failed
1984 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
1985 the final line of the response.
1987 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
1988 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
1989 all other user lookups.
1991 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
1994 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
1995 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
1996 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
1997 result into an int without checking.
1999 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2000 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2001 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2003 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2004 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2005 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2006 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2008 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2011 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2012 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2014 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2015 to the empty sender.
2017 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2018 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2019 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2020 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2021 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2022 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2023 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2026 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2027 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2028 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2029 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2032 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2033 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2035 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2038 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2039 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2041 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2043 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2044 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2047 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2048 as soon as it is encountered.
2050 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2052 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2055 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2056 recognizes a tab character.
2058 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2059 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2060 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2061 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2063 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2065 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2068 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2070 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2072 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2073 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2076 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2077 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2078 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2079 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2080 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2082 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2083 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2085 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2086 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2087 list (.included file names were always shown).
2089 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2090 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2091 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2094 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2095 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2097 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2099 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2101 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2103 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2104 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2105 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2106 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2107 failures to open the logs.
2109 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2110 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2111 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2112 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2113 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2114 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2115 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2121 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2122 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2123 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2126 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2127 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2128 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2130 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2131 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2132 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2134 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2135 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2136 causing some misleading effects.
2138 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2139 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2140 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2142 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2143 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2144 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2145 queue-runner function directly.
2151 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2154 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2155 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2156 was always written to the default place.
2158 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2159 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2160 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2162 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2164 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2166 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2167 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2168 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2170 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2171 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2174 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2175 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2176 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2178 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2179 command line option is disabled.
2181 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2182 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2184 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2186 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2188 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2189 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2191 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2193 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2194 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2195 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2196 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2197 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2198 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2200 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2201 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2204 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2205 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2207 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2208 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2210 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2211 received was valid base64.
2213 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2214 name of the variable that was being set.
2216 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2218 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2219 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2220 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2221 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2222 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2223 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2225 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2227 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2228 nor realm was specified.
2230 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2231 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2232 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2233 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2235 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2236 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2237 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2239 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2240 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2241 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2243 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2244 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2245 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2246 some systems use these upper case variants.
2248 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2249 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2250 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2251 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2253 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2255 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2256 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2258 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2259 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2262 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2264 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2265 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2266 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2267 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2269 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2272 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2273 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2274 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2276 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2277 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2279 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2280 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2281 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2282 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2284 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2285 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2286 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2288 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2290 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2291 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2292 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2293 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2296 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2297 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2298 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2300 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2302 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2303 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2305 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2306 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2308 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2309 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2310 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2311 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2312 when emails are that large.
2319 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2320 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2322 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2323 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2324 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2326 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2327 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2328 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2330 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2331 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2332 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2333 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2334 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2336 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2337 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2338 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2339 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2340 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2343 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2344 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2345 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2346 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2347 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2348 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2349 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2350 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2351 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2352 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2353 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2354 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2355 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2356 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2358 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2359 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2362 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2363 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2364 error should be diagnosed.
2366 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2367 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2368 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2369 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2370 appeared instead of "NULL".
2372 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2373 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2374 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2375 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2376 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2377 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2380 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2381 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2382 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2388 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2389 or receiver verification errors.
2391 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2394 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2395 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2396 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2397 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2399 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2400 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2401 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2402 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2403 shouldn't happen again.
2405 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2406 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2407 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2409 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2410 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2412 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2414 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2415 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2417 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2418 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2421 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2422 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2423 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2425 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2426 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2427 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2428 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2430 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2431 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2432 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2433 to define what should happen).
2435 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2436 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2437 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2439 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2441 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2443 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2444 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2446 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2447 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2448 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2449 structure in all cases.
2451 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2452 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2453 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2454 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2456 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
2457 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
2460 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
2461 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
2463 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
2464 MD5 (which is deprecated).
2466 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
2467 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
2468 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
2470 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
2471 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
2472 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
2474 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
2475 the book and for uniformity.
2477 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
2479 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2480 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
2481 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
2482 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
2483 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
2484 non-existent command as the problem.
2486 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
2487 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
2488 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
2490 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
2492 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
2493 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
2494 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
2496 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
2497 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
2498 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
2499 timestamps using strftime().
2501 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
2502 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
2504 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
2505 transport-time rewrites.
2507 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
2508 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
2509 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
2510 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
2512 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
2513 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
2515 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
2516 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
2517 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
2518 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
2521 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
2522 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
2523 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
2524 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
2525 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
2526 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
2527 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
2529 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
2530 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
2531 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
2532 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
2533 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
2535 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
2536 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
2537 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
2538 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
2539 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
2540 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
2541 remaining text gets split now.
2543 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
2544 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
2545 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
2546 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
2548 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
2549 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
2550 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
2551 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
2554 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
2555 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
2556 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
2557 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
2558 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
2559 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
2560 passed through if needed.
2562 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
2563 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
2564 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
2565 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
2566 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
2567 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
2569 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
2570 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
2571 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
2572 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
2573 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
2575 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
2576 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
2577 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
2578 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
2579 incorrect size information for certain domains.
2581 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
2582 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
2585 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
2586 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
2587 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
2588 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
2589 mayhem of various kinds.
2591 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
2592 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
2593 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
2594 the right test for positive values.
2596 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
2597 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
2598 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
2599 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
2600 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
2601 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
2602 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
2603 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
2604 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
2605 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
2608 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
2611 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
2612 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
2615 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
2616 the existing equality matching.
2618 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
2619 dealing with inode numbers.
2621 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
2622 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
2623 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
2625 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
2626 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
2627 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
2628 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
2631 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
2632 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
2633 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
2634 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
2635 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
2636 relay addresses has also been removed.
2638 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
2640 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
2641 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
2642 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
2644 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
2645 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
2646 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
2647 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
2648 processing applies to CR:
2650 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
2651 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
2653 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
2654 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
2655 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
2656 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
2658 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
2659 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
2660 This is a VOB (very old bug).
2662 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
2663 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
2664 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
2665 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
2666 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
2667 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
2670 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
2673 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
2674 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
2675 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
2676 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
2679 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2681 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
2683 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
2685 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
2686 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
2687 not considered personal.
2689 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
2691 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
2693 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
2695 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
2696 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
2697 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
2698 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
2699 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
2700 header lines, and spool format errors.
2702 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
2703 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
2704 for more flexibility.
2706 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
2707 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
2708 consulting and updating the callout cache.
2710 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
2713 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
2714 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
2715 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
2716 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
2717 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
2718 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
2719 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
2720 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
2721 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
2723 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
2724 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
2725 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
2726 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
2727 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
2728 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
2729 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
2731 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
2732 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
2733 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
2735 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
2736 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
2737 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
2738 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
2739 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
2740 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
2741 instead of killing the process with assert().
2743 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
2744 than Unicode encoding.
2746 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
2747 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
2748 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
2749 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
2751 77. Added process_log_path.
2753 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
2754 check_log_inodes was ignored.
2756 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
2757 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
2759 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
2760 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
2761 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
2763 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
2764 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
2765 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
2766 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
2767 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
2770 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
2771 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
2774 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
2775 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
2776 they will be used during message reception.
2782 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.