1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
9 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
12 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
15 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
19 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
21 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
27 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
34 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
36 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
38 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
41 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
45 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
47 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
49 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
50 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
52 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
54 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
56 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
58 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
59 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
61 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
63 PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
65 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
66 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
68 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
69 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
72 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
74 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
76 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
77 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
79 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
82 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
83 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
85 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
86 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
88 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
91 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
94 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
97 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
99 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
100 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
101 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
102 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
104 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
106 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
107 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
108 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
109 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
112 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
113 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
114 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
116 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
117 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
118 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
119 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
121 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
122 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
123 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
124 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
125 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
126 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
127 delivery, as in LMTP.
129 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
130 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
132 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
134 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
138 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
139 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
140 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
141 username as equal to the username.
143 This change corrects that bug.
145 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
146 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
147 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
149 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
151 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
152 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
153 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
154 NULL dereference and crash.
156 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
158 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
159 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
160 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
162 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
164 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
165 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
166 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
167 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
168 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
169 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
170 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
171 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
172 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
173 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
174 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
176 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
177 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
179 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
180 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
183 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
184 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
185 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
186 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
187 an empty string is now equivalent.
189 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
190 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
191 not performing validation itself.
193 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
194 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
196 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
199 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
200 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
201 other false fix of the same issue.
202 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
205 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
206 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
208 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
209 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
210 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
212 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
213 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
214 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
216 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
218 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
220 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
221 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
223 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
226 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
227 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
228 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
229 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
230 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
235 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
237 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
243 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
244 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
245 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
247 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
249 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
252 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
254 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
256 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
258 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
259 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
261 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
262 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
264 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
265 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
267 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
268 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
269 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
271 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
273 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
274 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
276 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
278 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
280 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
281 non-compliant senders.
282 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
284 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
285 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
286 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
288 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
289 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
290 in spool file corruption.
292 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
293 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
294 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
297 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
298 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
299 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
301 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
302 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
304 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
306 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
308 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
310 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
311 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
312 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
314 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
315 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
316 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
317 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
319 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
320 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
322 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
323 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
324 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
325 resolver implementation change.
327 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
328 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
330 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
332 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
334 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
335 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
337 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
338 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
340 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
341 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
343 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
344 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
345 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
346 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
347 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
349 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
351 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
352 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
353 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
355 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
357 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
358 read-only, out of scope).
359 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
361 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
362 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
363 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
364 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
366 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
368 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
369 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
370 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
371 real issues in debug logging.
373 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
374 assignment on my part. Fixed.
376 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
377 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
378 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
380 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
381 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
382 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
385 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
386 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
388 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
389 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
390 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
391 needs to override this, it can.
393 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
394 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
395 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
397 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
398 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
399 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
400 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
402 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
408 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
409 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
411 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
413 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
416 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
417 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
419 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
420 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
421 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
423 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
424 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
425 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
426 not safe for signals.
428 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
429 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
430 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
431 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
434 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
436 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
437 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
438 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
439 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
440 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
442 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
443 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
444 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
445 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
446 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
447 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
449 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
450 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
451 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
452 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
454 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
455 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
456 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
457 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
459 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
460 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
461 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
462 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
463 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
464 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
465 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
466 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
467 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
469 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
470 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
471 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
472 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
474 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
475 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
476 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
477 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
478 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
479 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
480 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
481 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
482 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
483 details in the main documentation.
485 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
487 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
489 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
490 repository when doing development or release builds.
492 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
493 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
495 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
496 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
499 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
501 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
502 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
504 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
505 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
507 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
508 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
510 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
511 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
513 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
514 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
516 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
518 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
521 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
522 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
523 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
525 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
527 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
529 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
530 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
536 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
538 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
539 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
541 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
543 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
545 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
548 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
549 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
551 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
552 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
554 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
557 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
560 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
561 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
563 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
564 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
565 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
566 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
568 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
569 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
575 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
578 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
579 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
580 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
582 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
583 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
585 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
586 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
587 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
589 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
590 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
592 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
593 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
595 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
596 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
598 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
599 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
601 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
602 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
604 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
607 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
608 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
610 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
611 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
613 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
614 SQL string expansion failure details.
615 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
617 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
618 Patch from Simon Arlott.
620 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
621 extern declarations in function scope.
622 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
624 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
625 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
626 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
629 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
630 Patch from Mark Zealey.
632 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
633 Patch from Mark Zealey.
635 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
636 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
638 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
639 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
641 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
642 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
645 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
647 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
649 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
650 Patch by Simon Arlott
652 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
653 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
659 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
660 consequences so log it to the panic log.
662 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
663 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
665 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
667 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
668 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
669 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
671 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
672 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
673 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
675 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
676 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
677 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
678 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
680 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
681 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
682 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
683 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
685 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
686 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
687 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
690 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
693 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
694 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
695 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
696 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
697 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
703 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
704 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
705 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
707 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
708 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
710 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
712 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
714 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
716 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
718 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
720 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
721 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
722 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
723 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
725 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
726 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
727 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
728 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
729 more caution in buffer sizes.
731 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
733 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
735 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
737 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
739 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
741 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
743 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
745 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
746 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
747 ignore trailing whitespace.
749 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
751 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
754 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
755 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
757 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
758 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
759 Notification from John Horne.
761 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
764 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
765 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
768 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
771 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
772 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
773 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
775 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
776 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
777 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
780 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
781 option (effectively making it always true).
783 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
784 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
786 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
787 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
789 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
790 run-time user, instead of root.
792 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
793 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
795 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
796 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
799 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
800 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
801 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
803 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
805 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
811 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
812 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
815 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
816 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
819 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
820 Patch from Alain Williams
822 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
824 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
825 Patch from Andreas Metzler
827 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
828 Patch from Kirill Miazine
830 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
832 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
834 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
835 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
837 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
839 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
841 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
842 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
843 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
845 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
846 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
848 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
849 Patch by Simon Arlott
851 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
852 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
858 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
860 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
862 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
864 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
866 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
872 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
873 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
875 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
876 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
879 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
880 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
881 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
883 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
884 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
886 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
887 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
888 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
889 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
891 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
892 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
893 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
895 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
897 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
899 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
900 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
902 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
904 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
905 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
906 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
907 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
909 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
910 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
912 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
914 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
916 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
917 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
919 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
920 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
922 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
923 that they are available at delivery time.
925 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
927 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
928 incoming_port log selectors.
930 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
931 setting expands to an empty string.
933 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
934 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
936 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
937 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
939 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
940 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
942 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
943 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
945 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
946 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
948 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
949 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
951 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
953 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
954 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
956 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
957 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
959 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
961 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
962 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
964 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
966 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
968 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
971 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
972 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
974 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
975 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
977 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
978 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
980 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
981 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
983 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
984 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
986 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
987 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
989 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
990 plus update to original patch.
992 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
994 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
995 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
997 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
999 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1001 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1003 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1005 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1006 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1008 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1009 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1011 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1012 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1014 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1015 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1017 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1019 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1021 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1023 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1029 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1030 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1031 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1033 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1034 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1035 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1036 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1037 build errors in sieve.c.
1039 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1040 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1041 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1043 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1045 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1047 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1049 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1055 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1057 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1058 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1059 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1060 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1061 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1062 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1063 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1064 for iplsearch lookups.
1066 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1067 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1068 previously such lookups could never work.
1070 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1071 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1072 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1074 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1077 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1078 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1079 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1080 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1081 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1082 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1084 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1085 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1087 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1088 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1089 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1090 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1091 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1092 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1094 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1097 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1099 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1100 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1103 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1104 by clients under certain conditions.
1106 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1107 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1109 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1111 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1112 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1114 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1116 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1118 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1120 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1121 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1123 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1125 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1126 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1128 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1130 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1132 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1133 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1134 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1135 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1137 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1138 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1139 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1141 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1142 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1144 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1146 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1148 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1150 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1151 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1152 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1158 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1159 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1162 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1163 issue a MAIL command.
1165 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1167 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1169 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1170 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1171 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1172 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1173 item. This has been fixed.
1175 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1176 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1178 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1179 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1181 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1182 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1183 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1185 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1187 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1188 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1189 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1190 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1191 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1193 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1194 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1195 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1197 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1198 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1199 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1200 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1202 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1204 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1206 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1207 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1208 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1209 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1210 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1212 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1214 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1215 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1216 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1219 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1221 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1223 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1225 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1227 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1229 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1230 no_callout_flush is set.
1232 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1233 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1234 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1237 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1239 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1240 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1241 other ACL rejections are.
1243 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1244 with slight modification.
1246 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1247 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1249 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1250 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1253 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1254 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1256 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1258 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1259 expansion side effects.
1261 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1262 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1263 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1266 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1267 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1268 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1270 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1271 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1272 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1273 were accidentally chopped off.
1275 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1276 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1277 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1278 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1279 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1280 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1281 pipelining has not been advertised.
1283 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1285 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1286 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1287 This has been fixed.
1289 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1290 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1291 reported on Solaris.
1293 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1294 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1295 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1296 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1297 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1298 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1299 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1301 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1304 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1306 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1308 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1309 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1310 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1311 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1312 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1313 criteria to be more general.
1315 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1316 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1317 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1318 host_all_ignored option.
1320 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1321 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1322 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1323 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1324 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1325 is what is supposed to happen).
1327 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1328 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1329 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1330 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1331 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1334 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1335 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1336 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1337 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1338 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1339 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1342 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1344 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1345 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1347 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1348 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1350 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1352 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1354 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1355 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1356 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1357 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1358 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1359 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1360 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1361 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1362 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1363 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1364 least in a lot of common cases.
1366 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1367 advertised in response to EHLO.
1373 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1374 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1376 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1377 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1379 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1380 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1381 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1383 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1384 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1385 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1386 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1387 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1393 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1394 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1397 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1398 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1399 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1401 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1402 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1403 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1404 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1405 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1406 rather than extend the field.
1412 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1413 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1414 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1415 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1418 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1419 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1420 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1422 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1423 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1424 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1426 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1427 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1428 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1431 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1432 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1433 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1434 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1435 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1436 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1437 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1438 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1439 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1440 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1441 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1443 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1446 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1447 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1448 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1449 ignores EPIPE as well.
1451 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1452 (quoted-printable decoding).
1454 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1455 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1457 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1459 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1461 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1463 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1464 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1466 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1469 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1470 miscellaneous code fixes
1472 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1475 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1476 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1477 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1478 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1479 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1480 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1481 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1482 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1484 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1485 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1486 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1487 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1489 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1490 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1491 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1492 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1493 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1494 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1495 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1496 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1497 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1499 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1502 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1503 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1504 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1505 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1506 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1507 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1508 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1509 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1511 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1512 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1515 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1516 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1517 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1518 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1519 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1520 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1521 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1522 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1523 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1524 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1525 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1526 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1527 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1529 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1530 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1531 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1532 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1533 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1534 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1535 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1537 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1538 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1539 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1540 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1541 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1542 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1543 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1544 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1545 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1546 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1548 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1549 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1550 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1551 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1552 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1554 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1555 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1556 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1557 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1558 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1559 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1560 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1562 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1563 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1564 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1565 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1566 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1567 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1570 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1571 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1572 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1575 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1576 if any retry times were supplied.
1578 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1579 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1580 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1582 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1584 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1586 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1587 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1588 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1589 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1590 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1591 before) are ignored.
1593 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1594 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1596 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1597 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1598 committing the later change.]
1600 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1601 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1602 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1603 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1604 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1605 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1606 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1607 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1608 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1610 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1611 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1612 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1613 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1614 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1615 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1616 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1617 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1618 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1620 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1621 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1622 hammering the server.
1624 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1625 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1627 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1629 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1630 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1631 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1633 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1634 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1635 one case where this was not true.
1637 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1638 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1639 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1640 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1643 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1644 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1645 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1646 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1647 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1648 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1649 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1650 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1651 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1654 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1655 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1656 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1657 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1659 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1660 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1662 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1663 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1664 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1666 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1668 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1670 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1672 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1673 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1674 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1675 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1677 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1678 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1680 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1681 be meaningful with "accept".
1683 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1684 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1686 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1687 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1688 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1690 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1691 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1692 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1693 there is data to show.
1694 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1696 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1697 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1698 as well as the number of messages.
1700 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1701 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1702 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1704 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1705 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1706 have a flag are now skipped.
1708 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1709 Added the -emptyok flag.
1711 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1712 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1714 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1715 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1716 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1718 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1721 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1722 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1724 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1726 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1727 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1729 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1731 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1732 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1733 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1734 contravention of the specifications.
1736 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1737 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1738 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1740 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1741 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1742 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1744 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1746 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1747 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1748 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1749 some point in the past.
1751 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1752 transport during callout processing was broken.
1754 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1755 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1757 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1758 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1760 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1761 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1763 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1769 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1770 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1772 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1773 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1774 there is data to show.
1775 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1777 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1778 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1780 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1781 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1783 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1784 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1786 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1787 submissions from trusted users.
1789 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1790 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1792 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1793 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1794 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1795 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1796 there is now a framework to start from.
1798 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1799 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1800 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1802 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1804 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1806 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1808 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1809 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1810 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1812 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1815 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1816 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1817 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1819 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1820 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1821 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1824 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1825 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1826 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1827 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1828 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1830 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1831 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1833 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1835 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1836 operations in malware.c.
1838 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1841 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1842 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1843 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1846 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1847 statements to "add_header".
1849 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1850 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1852 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1853 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1856 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1860 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1861 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1862 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1865 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1866 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1868 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1869 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1871 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1872 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1873 any possible encoding problems.
1875 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1876 but not after initializing Perl.
1878 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1879 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1880 apparently, which is not desirable.
1882 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1885 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1888 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1890 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1891 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1892 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1893 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1895 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1896 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1897 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1899 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1900 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1901 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1904 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1905 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1906 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1907 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1908 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1914 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1915 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1917 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1920 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1921 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1922 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1923 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1924 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1925 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1926 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1927 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1930 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1932 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1933 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1934 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1936 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1937 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1938 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1941 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1942 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1944 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1945 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1946 option (which defaults to 0600).
1948 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1950 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1951 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1952 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1953 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1954 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1955 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1956 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1958 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1964 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1965 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1966 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1967 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1968 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1969 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1972 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1973 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1975 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1977 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1978 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1979 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1980 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1981 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1984 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1985 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1987 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1988 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1989 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1990 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1991 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1993 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1994 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1995 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1996 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1998 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1999 be the same on different OS.
2001 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2004 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2005 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2007 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2010 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2011 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2012 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2013 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2014 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2015 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2018 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2019 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2020 when Exim was called.
2022 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2023 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2025 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2026 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2027 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2028 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2030 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2031 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2032 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2033 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2036 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2037 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2038 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2040 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2041 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2042 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2044 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2047 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2048 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2049 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2050 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2051 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2052 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2053 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2054 values from the SRV records were lost.
2056 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2057 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2058 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2060 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2061 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2062 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2064 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2065 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2066 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2067 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2068 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2069 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2070 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2071 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2072 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2073 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2075 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2076 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2077 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2079 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2080 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2082 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2083 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2084 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2085 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2088 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2089 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2090 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2092 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2093 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2094 PH/23 above applies.
2096 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2097 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2098 (for which there is an explicit test).
2100 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2102 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2103 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2104 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2105 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2106 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2108 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2109 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2110 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2111 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2113 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2114 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2115 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2117 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2119 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2121 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2122 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2123 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2125 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2126 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2127 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2128 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2129 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2131 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2132 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2133 the message gets confusing).
2135 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2136 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2137 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2138 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2140 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2141 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2142 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2143 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2146 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2147 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2148 the different processes.
2150 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2152 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2154 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2155 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2157 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2158 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2160 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2161 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2162 messages matching specified criteria.
2164 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2166 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2167 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2169 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2170 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2171 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2172 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2173 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2174 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2175 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2176 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2177 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2178 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2180 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2181 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2182 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2184 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2186 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2187 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2188 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2189 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2190 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2191 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2192 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2195 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2196 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2198 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2200 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2202 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2204 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2205 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2206 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2207 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2208 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2209 size of the count of files.
2211 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2213 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2216 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2217 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2218 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2219 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2221 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2222 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2223 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2225 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2226 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2227 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2228 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2229 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2231 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2232 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2234 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2235 will now be deprecated.
2237 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2239 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2240 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2241 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2243 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2244 with very large, slow to parse queues
2246 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2248 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2250 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2251 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2252 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2255 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2256 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2257 Sieve code now uses this.
2259 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2260 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2262 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2263 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2265 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2267 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2268 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2269 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2270 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2271 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2273 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2274 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2275 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2276 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2278 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2280 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2282 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2283 is preferred over IPv4.
2285 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2286 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2287 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2288 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2289 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2290 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2291 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2293 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2294 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2295 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2297 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2299 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2300 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2301 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2302 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2303 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2304 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2305 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2306 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2307 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2308 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2309 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2311 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2312 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2313 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2319 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2321 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2322 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2324 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2325 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2326 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2328 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2330 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2333 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2336 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2337 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2338 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2341 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2342 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2344 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2345 inside the third argument.
2347 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2348 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2351 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2352 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2354 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2355 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2357 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2359 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2360 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2363 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2365 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2366 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2367 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2368 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2369 identical. For example:
2371 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2373 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2374 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2375 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2377 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2378 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2379 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2380 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2382 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2383 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2384 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2387 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2389 o fixes some comments
2390 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2391 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2392 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2393 and documents the missing references header update
2397 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2398 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2401 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2402 Electronic Mail") by including:
2404 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2406 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2407 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2408 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2409 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2410 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2412 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2414 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2416 The auto-replied keyword:
2418 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2419 message by an automatic process,
2421 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2423 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2424 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2426 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2427 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2430 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2431 to the default Received: header definition.
2433 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2435 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2436 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2437 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2439 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2440 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2441 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2443 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2444 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2445 and treats the condition as false.
2447 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2449 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2450 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2451 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2452 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2453 not changing the active code.
2455 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2456 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2458 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2459 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2461 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2464 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2465 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2466 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2467 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2468 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2469 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2470 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2471 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2472 the text comparison.
2474 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2475 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2476 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2477 The same fix has been applied.
2483 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2484 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2487 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2488 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2490 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2492 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2493 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2494 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2495 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2496 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2498 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2499 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2500 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2501 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2504 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2512 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2513 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2515 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2517 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2519 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2520 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2521 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2523 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2524 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2525 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2527 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2528 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2531 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2532 ${stat: expansion item.
2534 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2535 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2537 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2538 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2541 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2543 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2546 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2547 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2549 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2551 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2552 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2553 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2554 the end of the subprocess.
2556 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2557 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2558 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2559 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2560 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2562 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2564 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2566 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2567 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2569 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2571 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2573 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2574 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2577 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2579 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2580 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2581 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2583 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2584 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2586 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2587 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2589 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2590 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2592 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2593 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2595 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2596 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2597 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2598 contributed by a Radius user.
2600 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2601 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2603 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2604 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2606 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2609 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2610 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2613 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2614 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2615 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2616 header lines when this was not necessary.
2618 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2620 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2621 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2622 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2625 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2628 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2629 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2630 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2631 return code was incorrect.
2633 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2635 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2637 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2639 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2641 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2642 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2643 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2644 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2645 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2648 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2650 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2651 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2652 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2653 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2654 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2655 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2656 which is clearly wrong.
2658 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2660 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2661 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2662 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2665 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2666 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2668 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2670 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2671 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2673 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2674 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2676 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2677 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2679 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2680 recipients, not senders.
2682 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2683 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2685 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2687 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2689 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2690 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2691 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2692 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2694 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2696 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2697 clock is set back in time.
2699 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2700 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2702 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2703 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2705 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2706 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2709 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2710 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2713 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2716 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2718 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2719 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2720 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2722 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2723 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2724 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2725 helo verification defer as a failure.
2727 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2728 actual error message.
2734 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2736 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2737 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2738 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2739 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2741 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2743 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2744 can still be requested.
2746 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2747 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2748 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2749 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2751 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2752 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2753 circumstances, but probably never did.
2755 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2756 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2757 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2760 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2762 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2763 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2765 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2767 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2769 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2770 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2771 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2772 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2773 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2774 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2776 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2777 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2778 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2779 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2780 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2781 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2783 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2784 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2786 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2787 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2789 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2790 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2792 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2794 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2796 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2798 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2800 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2802 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2804 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2806 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2807 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2808 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2810 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2811 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2812 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2813 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2815 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2816 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2817 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2819 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2820 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2821 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2822 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2824 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2825 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2828 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2829 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2830 should work with maildirs and everything.
2832 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2833 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2835 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2838 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2839 function for BDB 4.3.
2841 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2843 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2844 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2847 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2848 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2849 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2850 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2851 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2852 formatting function string_vformat().
2854 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2855 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2856 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2857 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2858 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2859 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2860 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2861 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2863 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2864 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2867 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2868 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2870 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2871 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2872 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2873 test. It is now used for both.
2875 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2876 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2877 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2878 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2879 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2880 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2882 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2883 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2884 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2887 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2888 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2889 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2891 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2892 experimental DomainKeys support:
2894 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2895 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2896 the control was given.
2898 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2900 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2902 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2904 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2905 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2906 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2909 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2910 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2911 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2912 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2913 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2914 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2917 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2918 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2919 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2920 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2921 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2922 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2924 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2925 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2926 do -d+all out of habit.
2928 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2929 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2932 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2933 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2934 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2935 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2936 record types that Exim uses.
2938 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2939 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2940 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2941 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2942 non-existent file that was broken.
2944 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2945 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2947 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2948 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2949 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2951 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2953 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2954 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2955 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2956 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2957 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2960 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2961 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2962 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2963 at a slight CPU cost.
2965 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2966 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2968 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2971 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2973 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2974 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2980 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2981 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2983 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2985 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2987 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2988 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2990 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2991 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2992 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2993 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2994 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2995 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2998 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2999 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3000 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3001 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3004 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3005 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3006 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3007 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3008 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3009 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3010 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3013 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3014 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3016 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3017 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3018 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3019 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3020 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3021 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3023 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3024 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3025 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3026 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3028 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3031 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3032 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3034 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3035 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3036 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3037 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3040 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3042 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3043 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3045 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3046 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3047 to what was transported.)
3049 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3051 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3052 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3053 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3054 spamd_address settings.
3056 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3057 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3058 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3059 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3060 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3062 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3064 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3065 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3066 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3067 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3068 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3070 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3071 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3073 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3074 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3075 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3076 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3077 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3078 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3079 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3082 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3083 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3084 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3085 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3086 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3087 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3088 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3091 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3093 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3094 driver and ACL definitions.
3096 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3097 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3099 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3100 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3101 understands it better than I do:
3103 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3104 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3106 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3107 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3108 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3109 => three warnings about OTP not working
3110 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3112 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3113 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3114 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3115 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3117 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3118 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3120 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3121 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3122 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3124 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3125 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3128 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3129 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3132 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3133 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3134 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3136 warn !verify = sender
3137 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3139 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3140 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3142 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3144 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3145 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3147 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3148 nomenclature these days.)
3150 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3151 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3153 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3154 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3155 . First host does not offer TLS;
3156 . First host accepts first address;
3157 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3158 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3159 . Second host accepts second address.
3160 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3161 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3164 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3165 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3166 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3167 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3168 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3170 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3171 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3173 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3174 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3176 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3177 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3178 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3180 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3181 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3184 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3186 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3187 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3188 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3189 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3190 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3191 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3192 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3194 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3195 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3196 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3197 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3198 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3200 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3201 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3204 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3205 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3206 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3207 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3208 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3209 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3211 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3213 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3214 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3215 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3216 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3217 printable escape sequences.
3219 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3220 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3223 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3224 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3227 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3228 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3229 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3230 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3231 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3233 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3234 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3235 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3237 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3239 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3240 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3243 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3244 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3245 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3246 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3247 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3248 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3249 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3250 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3251 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3254 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3255 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3256 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3257 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3261 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3262 ----------------------------------------
3264 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3265 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3266 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3267 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3268 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3269 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3272 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3273 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3274 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3275 historical information.
3281 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3283 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3284 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3286 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3287 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3290 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3291 filter fails to execute.
3293 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3294 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3295 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3296 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3297 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3299 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3301 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3302 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3303 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3304 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3306 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3307 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3308 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3309 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3310 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3312 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3314 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3316 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3317 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3318 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3319 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3321 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3322 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3323 sender verification.
3325 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3326 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3328 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3330 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3333 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3334 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3336 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3337 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3339 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3340 information about exactly what failed.
3342 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3344 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3345 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3346 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3348 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3349 It is now set to "smtps".
3351 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3352 ignore_target_hosts.
3354 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3355 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3356 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3357 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3360 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3361 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3362 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3364 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3365 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3366 wake it up if nothing else does.
3368 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3369 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3370 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3373 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3374 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3376 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3378 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3379 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3380 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3381 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3382 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3383 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3384 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3385 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3387 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3388 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3389 than one IP address.
3391 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3392 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3393 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3394 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3396 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3397 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3398 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3399 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3400 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3403 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3404 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3405 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3406 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3408 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3409 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3412 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3413 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3414 $sender_host_address.
3416 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3417 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3418 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3419 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3420 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3423 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3425 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3426 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3428 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3429 just the host names, not the priorities.
3431 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3432 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3433 controlled by a keyword.
3435 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3436 multiple records are returned.
3438 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3439 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3442 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3444 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3445 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3447 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3448 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3449 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3451 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3453 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3455 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3457 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3458 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3459 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3460 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3461 because the tests only now provoked it.
3463 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3464 (this can affect the format of dates).
3466 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3467 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3468 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3469 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3471 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3473 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3474 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3475 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3476 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3478 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3479 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3480 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3482 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3485 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3486 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3487 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3488 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3489 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3490 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3493 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3494 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3495 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3498 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3499 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3500 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3502 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3503 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3504 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3505 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3506 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3507 so I produce this patch..."
3509 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3510 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3513 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3514 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3515 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3516 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3519 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3521 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3522 long debug lines gets shown.
3524 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3525 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3527 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3529 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3530 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3531 of $primary_hostname.
3533 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3534 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3535 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3536 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3537 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3538 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3539 by change 4.50/55 above.
3541 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3542 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3543 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3544 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3545 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3546 running as the user.
3549 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3550 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3551 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3554 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3555 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3557 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3558 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3559 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3560 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3561 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3563 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3564 This has been fixed.
3566 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3567 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3568 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3569 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3572 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3574 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3575 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3576 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3577 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3579 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3580 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3582 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3583 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3584 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3586 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3587 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3588 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3591 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3592 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3593 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3595 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3596 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3597 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3598 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3600 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3601 during host lookups.
3603 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3604 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3606 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3608 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3609 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3610 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3611 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3612 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3615 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3616 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3618 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3619 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3620 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3622 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3624 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3625 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3626 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3627 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3628 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3629 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3632 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3633 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3634 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3635 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3636 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3638 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3641 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3643 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3644 "vacation" handling.
3646 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3647 OS variants using glibc.
3649 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3652 ----------------------------------------------------
3653 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3654 ----------------------------------------------------
3660 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3661 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3664 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3665 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3668 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3669 filter fails to execute.
3671 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3672 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3673 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3674 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3675 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3677 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3678 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3679 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3680 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3682 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3683 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3684 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3685 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3686 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3688 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3690 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3691 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3692 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3693 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3695 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3696 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3697 sender verification.
3699 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3700 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3702 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3703 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3705 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3706 ignore_target_hosts.
3708 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3709 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3710 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3711 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3714 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3715 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3716 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3718 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3719 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3720 wake it up if nothing else does.
3722 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3723 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3724 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3727 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3728 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3730 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3732 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3733 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3736 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3737 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3740 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3741 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3742 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3743 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3744 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3747 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3748 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3751 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3752 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3753 $sender_host_address.
3755 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3757 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3758 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3759 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3761 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3764 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3765 (this can affect the format of dates).
3767 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3768 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3769 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3770 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3772 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3773 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3774 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3776 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3777 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3778 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3779 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3781 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3782 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3783 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3785 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3788 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3789 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3790 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3791 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3792 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3793 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3796 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3797 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3798 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3799 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3802 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3803 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3804 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3805 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3806 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3807 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3808 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3810 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3811 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3812 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3813 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3814 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3815 running as the user.
3818 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3819 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3820 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3823 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3824 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3825 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3826 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3827 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3829 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3830 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3831 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3832 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3835 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3836 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3837 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3838 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3839 because the tests only now provoked it.
3845 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3846 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3847 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3848 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3849 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3850 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3851 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3853 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3854 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3857 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3859 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3861 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3862 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3865 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3866 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3867 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3868 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3869 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3871 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3872 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3874 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3876 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3878 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3881 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3882 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3884 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3885 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3886 affecting debugging statements).
3888 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3890 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3891 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3892 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3893 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3894 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3895 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3896 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3897 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3898 after the received time, and all would be well.
3900 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3901 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3902 condition in an expansion string.
3904 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3906 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3907 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3908 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3909 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3910 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3911 job under whatever limits there are.
3913 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3915 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3918 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3919 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3920 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3921 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3924 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3925 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3926 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3927 binary data in such strings.
3929 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3931 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3932 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3933 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3934 failure, which is pointless.
3936 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3938 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3940 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3941 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3942 Sender: header lines.
3944 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3945 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3946 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3948 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3949 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3950 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3951 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3952 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3955 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3956 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3957 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3958 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3959 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3961 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3962 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3963 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3966 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3967 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3969 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3970 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3972 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3974 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3976 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3978 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3981 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3983 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3985 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3986 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3987 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3988 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3990 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3991 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3997 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3998 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3999 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4001 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4002 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4003 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4004 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4005 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4006 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4008 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4009 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4010 verification failure".
4012 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4013 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4014 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4015 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4017 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4018 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4019 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4020 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4021 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4022 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4023 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4024 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4025 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4026 treated as a timeout.
4028 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4029 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4030 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4031 not set for Exim filters).
4033 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4034 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4035 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4037 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4039 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4040 try to make them clearer.
4042 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4043 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4045 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4047 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4049 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4050 only the Cygwin environment.
4052 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4053 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4054 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4055 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4056 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4058 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4059 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4060 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4061 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4062 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4063 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4064 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4066 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4067 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4069 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4071 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4072 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4073 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4075 To: susanne@some.where
4077 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4078 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4079 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4080 of addresses in From: header lines).
4082 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4083 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4084 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4086 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4087 treated as non-personal.
4089 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4090 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4092 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4094 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4096 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4097 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4098 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4100 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4101 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4103 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4104 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4105 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4106 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4107 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4108 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4110 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4111 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4112 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4113 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4114 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4115 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4116 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4117 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4119 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4121 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4122 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4124 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4125 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4126 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4128 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4129 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4131 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4132 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4133 rather than long int.
4135 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4137 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4143 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4144 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4145 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4146 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4147 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4148 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4154 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4155 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4157 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4158 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4159 socklen_t is defined.
4161 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4164 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4167 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4168 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4169 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4170 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4171 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4173 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4174 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4175 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4176 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4178 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4179 of flapping under certain conditions.
4181 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4182 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4183 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4185 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4187 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4189 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4190 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4191 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4192 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4194 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4195 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4196 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4197 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4198 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4199 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4200 preserved with the message after it was received.
4202 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4203 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4204 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4205 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4206 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4207 test suite worked just fine.
4209 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4210 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4211 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4213 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4214 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4217 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4218 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4219 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4220 does not fully solve it.
4222 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4223 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4224 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4225 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4226 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4228 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4229 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4230 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4232 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4233 string, for example:
4235 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4237 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4238 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4239 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4240 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4241 the routers could not see them.
4243 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4244 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4246 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4247 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4250 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4251 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4252 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4253 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4254 that needed quoting.
4256 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4257 was not being matched caselessly.
4259 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4262 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4263 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4264 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4265 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4266 when use_sender is false.
4268 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4270 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4272 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4274 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4275 the configuration file.
4277 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4278 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4280 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4282 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4283 bytes in the message body.
4285 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4286 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4289 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4291 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4293 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4294 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4295 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4296 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4303 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4304 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4306 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4307 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4308 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4309 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4310 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4312 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4313 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4315 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4316 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4317 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4319 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4320 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4321 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4323 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4326 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4327 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4328 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4329 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4330 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4331 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4332 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4338 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4339 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4340 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4341 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4342 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4343 default (and expected) setting.
4345 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4346 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4347 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4348 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4350 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4351 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4353 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4356 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4357 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4358 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4359 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4360 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4361 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4363 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4364 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4365 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4367 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4368 part (NOT match_host).
4370 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4372 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4373 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4374 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4375 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4376 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4377 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4378 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4379 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4380 the same named file.
4382 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4383 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4386 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4387 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4388 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4389 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4392 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4393 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4394 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4396 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4398 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4400 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4402 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4403 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4405 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4406 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4407 before starting the TLS session.
4409 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4411 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4412 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4414 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4415 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4416 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4417 colon in the middle).
4423 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4424 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4425 multiple configurations are in use.
4427 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4428 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4429 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4430 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4431 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4432 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4434 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4435 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4437 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4438 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4439 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4441 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4442 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4445 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4446 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4448 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4450 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4451 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4453 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4461 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4462 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4463 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4464 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4465 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4467 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4470 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4471 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4472 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4473 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4474 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4475 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4477 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4478 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4479 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4480 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4481 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4482 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4483 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4486 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4487 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4488 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4489 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4490 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4492 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4494 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4495 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4496 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4498 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4500 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4501 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4502 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4505 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4506 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4508 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4509 Three changes have been made:
4511 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4512 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4513 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4514 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4515 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4517 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4520 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4521 the modified behaviour.
4527 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4530 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4531 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4533 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4534 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4535 try to track down a specific problem.
4537 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4538 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4539 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4541 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4544 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4545 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4546 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4547 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4548 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4549 some earlier ones do not.
4551 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4553 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4554 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4555 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4556 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4557 address literals are enabled, of course).
4559 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4561 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4562 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4563 by a command such as
4567 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4569 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4571 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4572 remained set. It is now erased.
4574 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4575 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4577 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4578 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4579 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4580 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4581 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4582 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4583 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4584 appropriate error code.
4586 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4587 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4588 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4589 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4590 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4591 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4593 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4594 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4595 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4597 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4598 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4599 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4600 terminate the header.
4602 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4603 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4604 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4606 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4607 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4608 (4.30/29). In particular:
4610 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4613 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4614 to write a maildirsize file.
4616 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4617 the transport, the new value overrides.
4619 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4622 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4623 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4624 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4627 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4628 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4629 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4632 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4633 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4634 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4636 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4637 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4640 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4641 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4642 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4644 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4646 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4648 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4650 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4651 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4654 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4655 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4656 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4657 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4658 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4659 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4660 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4663 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4664 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4665 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4666 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4667 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4670 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4671 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4672 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4673 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4674 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4675 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4676 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4677 cached value only when the same options are set.
4679 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4681 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4682 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4683 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4684 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4685 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4687 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4688 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4689 it is clearly obsolete.
4691 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4694 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4695 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4696 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4699 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4700 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4701 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4702 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4703 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4705 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4706 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4707 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4708 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4710 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4712 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4714 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4715 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4718 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4719 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4720 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4721 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4722 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4723 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4726 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4727 with the -f command-line option.
4729 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4730 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4731 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4732 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4733 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4734 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4736 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4737 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4740 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4741 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4742 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4743 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4744 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4745 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4746 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4747 buffer is too small.
4749 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4750 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4752 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4753 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4754 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4755 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4756 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4757 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4758 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4759 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4760 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4762 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4763 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4764 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4766 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4767 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4770 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4771 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4772 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4773 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4774 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4776 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4777 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4778 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4779 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4782 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4784 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4786 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4787 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4789 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4790 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4791 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4793 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4794 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4795 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4796 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4797 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4799 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4800 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4801 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4802 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4803 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4804 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4805 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4807 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4808 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4809 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4810 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4811 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4812 the test of how many are available.
4814 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4815 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4816 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4817 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4818 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4819 new message is started.
4821 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4822 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4824 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4825 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4827 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4828 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4829 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4832 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4833 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4834 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4835 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4836 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4837 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4838 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4840 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4841 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4842 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4843 interpreted as octal.
4845 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4848 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4849 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4850 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4851 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4852 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4853 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4855 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4856 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4857 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4858 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4860 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4861 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4862 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4863 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4865 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4866 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4869 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4870 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4872 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4874 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4875 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4876 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4877 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4879 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4880 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4881 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4882 supplied", which is not helpful.
4884 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4885 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4886 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4888 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4889 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4890 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4891 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4892 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4893 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4894 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4895 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4897 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4898 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4899 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4900 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4901 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4903 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4904 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4905 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4906 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4907 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4908 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4910 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4911 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4912 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4914 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4916 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4917 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4918 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4921 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4923 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4924 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4925 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4926 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4927 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4928 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4929 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4930 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4932 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4933 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4934 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4935 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4936 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4938 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4941 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4942 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4943 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4944 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4945 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4946 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4947 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4948 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4949 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4955 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4956 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4957 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4959 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4962 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4963 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4964 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4966 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4967 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4968 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4969 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4970 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4971 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4973 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4974 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4975 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4976 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4977 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4978 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4979 the Exim test suite.
4981 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4982 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4983 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4984 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4986 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4987 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4988 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4989 specify it in this variable.
4991 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4992 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4993 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4994 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4996 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4997 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4998 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4999 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5001 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5002 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5003 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5004 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5005 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5007 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5009 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5012 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5013 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5014 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5015 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5016 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5018 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5019 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5021 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5022 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5023 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5024 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5025 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5027 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5028 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5030 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5031 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5032 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5034 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5035 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5037 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5038 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5040 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5041 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5042 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5044 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5045 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5047 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5048 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5049 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5050 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5052 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5054 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5055 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5056 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5057 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5059 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5061 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5062 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5064 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5066 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5067 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5068 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5069 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5070 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5071 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5073 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5075 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5076 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5079 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5081 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5082 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5084 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5085 550 Sender verify failed
5087 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5088 the final line of the response.
5090 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5091 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5092 all other user lookups.
5094 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5097 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5098 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5099 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5100 result into an int without checking.
5102 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5103 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5104 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5106 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5107 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5108 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5109 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5111 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5114 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5115 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5117 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5118 to the empty sender.
5120 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5121 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5122 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5123 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5124 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5125 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5126 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5129 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5130 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5131 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5132 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5135 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5136 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5138 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5141 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5142 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5144 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5146 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5147 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5150 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5151 as soon as it is encountered.
5153 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5155 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5158 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5159 recognizes a tab character.
5161 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5162 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5163 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5164 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5166 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5168 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5171 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5173 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5175 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5176 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5179 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5180 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5181 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5182 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5183 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5185 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5186 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5188 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5189 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5190 list (.included file names were always shown).
5192 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5193 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5194 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5197 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5198 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5200 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5202 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5204 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5206 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5207 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5208 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5209 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5210 failures to open the logs.
5212 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5213 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5214 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5215 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5216 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5217 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5218 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5224 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5225 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5226 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5229 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5230 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5231 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5233 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5234 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5235 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5237 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5238 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5239 causing some misleading effects.
5241 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5242 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5243 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5245 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5246 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5247 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5248 queue-runner function directly.
5254 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5257 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5258 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5259 was always written to the default place.
5261 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5262 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5263 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5265 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5267 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5269 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5270 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5271 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5273 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5274 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5277 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5278 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5279 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5281 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5282 command line option is disabled.
5284 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5285 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5287 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5289 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5291 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5292 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5294 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5296 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5297 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5298 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5299 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5300 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5301 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5303 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5304 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5307 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5308 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5310 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5311 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5313 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5314 received was valid base64.
5316 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5317 name of the variable that was being set.
5319 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5321 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5322 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5323 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5324 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5325 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5326 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5328 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5330 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5331 nor realm was specified.
5333 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5334 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5335 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5336 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5338 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5339 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5340 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5342 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5343 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5344 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5346 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5347 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5348 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5349 some systems use these upper case variants.
5351 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5352 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5353 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5354 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5356 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5358 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5359 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5361 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5362 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5365 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5367 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5368 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5369 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5370 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5372 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5375 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5376 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5377 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5379 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5380 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5382 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5383 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5384 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5385 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5387 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5388 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5389 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5391 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5393 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5394 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5395 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5396 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5399 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5400 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5401 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5403 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5405 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5406 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5408 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5409 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5411 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5412 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5413 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5414 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5415 when emails are that large.
5422 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5423 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5425 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5426 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5427 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5429 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5430 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5431 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5433 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5434 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5435 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5436 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5437 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5439 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5440 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5441 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5442 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5443 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5446 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5447 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5448 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5449 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5450 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5451 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5452 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5453 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5454 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5455 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5456 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5457 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5458 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5459 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5461 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5462 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5465 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5466 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5467 error should be diagnosed.
5469 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5470 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5471 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5472 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5473 appeared instead of "NULL".
5475 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5476 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5477 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5478 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5479 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5480 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5483 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5484 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5485 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5491 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5492 or receiver verification errors.
5494 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5497 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5498 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5499 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5500 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5502 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5503 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5504 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5505 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5506 shouldn't happen again.
5508 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5509 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5510 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5512 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5513 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5515 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5517 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5518 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5520 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5521 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5524 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5525 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5526 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5528 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5529 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5530 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5531 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5533 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5534 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5535 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5536 to define what should happen).
5538 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5539 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5540 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5542 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5544 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5546 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5547 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5549 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5550 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5551 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5552 structure in all cases.
5554 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5555 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5556 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5557 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5559 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5560 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5563 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5564 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5566 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5567 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5569 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5570 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5571 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5573 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5574 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5575 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5577 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5578 the book and for uniformity.
5580 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5582 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5583 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5584 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5585 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5586 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5587 non-existent command as the problem.
5589 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5590 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5591 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5593 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5595 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5596 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5597 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5599 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5600 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5601 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5602 timestamps using strftime().
5604 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5605 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5607 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5608 transport-time rewrites.
5610 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5611 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5612 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5613 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5615 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5616 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5618 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5619 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5620 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5621 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5624 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5625 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5626 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5627 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5628 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5629 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5630 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5632 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5633 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5634 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5635 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5636 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5638 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5639 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5640 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5641 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5642 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5643 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5644 remaining text gets split now.
5646 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5647 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5648 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5649 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5651 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5652 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5653 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5654 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5657 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5658 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5659 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5660 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5661 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5662 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5663 passed through if needed.
5665 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5666 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5667 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5668 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5669 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5670 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5672 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5673 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5674 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5675 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5676 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5678 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5679 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5680 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5681 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5682 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5684 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5685 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5688 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5689 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5690 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5691 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5692 mayhem of various kinds.
5694 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5695 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5696 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5697 the right test for positive values.
5699 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5700 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5701 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5702 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5703 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5704 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5705 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5706 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5707 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5708 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5711 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5714 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5715 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5718 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5719 the existing equality matching.
5721 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5722 dealing with inode numbers.
5724 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5725 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5726 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5728 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5729 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5730 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5731 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5734 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5735 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5736 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5737 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5738 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5739 relay addresses has also been removed.
5741 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5743 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5744 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5745 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5747 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5748 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5749 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5750 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5751 processing applies to CR:
5753 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5754 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5756 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5757 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5758 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5759 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5761 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5762 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5763 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5765 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5766 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5767 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5768 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5769 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5770 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5773 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5776 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5777 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5778 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5779 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5782 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5784 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5786 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5788 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5789 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5790 not considered personal.
5792 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5794 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5796 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5798 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5799 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5800 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5801 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5802 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5803 header lines, and spool format errors.
5805 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5806 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5807 for more flexibility.
5809 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5810 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5811 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5813 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5816 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5817 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5818 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5819 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5820 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5821 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5822 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5823 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5824 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5826 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5827 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5828 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5829 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5830 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5831 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5832 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5834 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5835 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5836 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5838 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5839 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5840 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5841 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5842 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5843 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5844 instead of killing the process with assert().
5846 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5847 than Unicode encoding.
5849 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5850 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5851 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5852 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5854 77. Added process_log_path.
5856 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5857 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5859 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5860 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5862 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5863 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5864 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5866 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5867 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5868 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5869 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5870 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5873 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5874 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5877 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5878 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5879 they will be used during message reception.
5885 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.