1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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8 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
17 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
20 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
23 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
26 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
28 were a direct connection from the outside internet.
30 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
32 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
33 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
35 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
38 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
40 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
41 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
42 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
44 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
45 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
46 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
47 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
48 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
49 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
51 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
53 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
54 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
56 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
59 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
61 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
63 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
64 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
66 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
67 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
69 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
71 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
73 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
74 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
76 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
77 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
78 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
80 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
81 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
82 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
85 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
87 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
88 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
91 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
92 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
95 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
96 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
98 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
99 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
101 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
103 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
104 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
105 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
107 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
108 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
110 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
111 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
118 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
120 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
121 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
123 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
126 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
127 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
130 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
132 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
133 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
134 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
135 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
136 using channel bindings instead).
138 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
139 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
140 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
141 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
142 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
145 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
147 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
149 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
150 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
152 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
153 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
154 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
156 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
158 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
160 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
161 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
163 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
165 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
167 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
169 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
170 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
172 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
174 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
175 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
178 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
179 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
181 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
182 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
185 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
187 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
189 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
190 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
192 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
195 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
196 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
198 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
199 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
201 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
203 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
205 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
208 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
211 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
213 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
214 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
215 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
216 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
218 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
220 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
221 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
222 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
223 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
226 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
227 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
228 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
230 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
231 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
232 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
233 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
235 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
236 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
237 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
238 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
239 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
240 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
241 delivery, as in LMTP.
243 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
244 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
246 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
248 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
252 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
253 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
254 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
255 username as equal to the username.
257 This change corrects that bug.
259 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
260 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
261 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
263 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
265 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
266 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
267 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
268 NULL dereference and crash.
270 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
272 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
273 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
274 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
276 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
278 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
279 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
280 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
281 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
282 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
283 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
284 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
285 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
286 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
287 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
288 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
290 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
291 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
293 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
294 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
297 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
298 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
299 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
300 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
301 an empty string is now equivalent.
303 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
304 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
305 not performing validation itself.
307 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
308 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
310 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
313 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
315 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
316 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
317 other false fix of the same issue.
318 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
321 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
322 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
324 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
325 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
326 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
328 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
329 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
330 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
332 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
334 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
336 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
337 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
339 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
342 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
343 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
344 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
345 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
346 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
348 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
349 the src/util/ subdirectory.
351 TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
352 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
355 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
356 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
357 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
358 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
360 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
362 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
363 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
364 from multiple comments on this bug.
366 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
368 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
369 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
372 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
373 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
375 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
376 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
382 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
384 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
390 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
391 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
392 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
394 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
396 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
399 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
401 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
403 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
405 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
406 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
408 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
409 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
411 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
412 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
414 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
415 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
416 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
418 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
420 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
421 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
423 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
425 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
427 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
428 non-compliant senders.
429 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
431 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
432 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
433 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
435 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
436 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
437 in spool file corruption.
439 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
440 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
441 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
444 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
445 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
446 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
448 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
449 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
451 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
453 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
455 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
457 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
458 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
459 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
461 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
462 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
463 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
464 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
466 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
467 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
469 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
470 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
471 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
472 resolver implementation change.
474 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
475 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
477 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
479 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
481 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
482 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
484 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
485 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
487 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
488 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
490 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
491 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
492 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
493 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
494 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
496 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
498 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
499 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
500 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
502 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
504 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
505 read-only, out of scope).
506 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
508 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
509 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
510 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
511 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
513 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
515 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
516 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
517 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
518 real issues in debug logging.
520 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
521 assignment on my part. Fixed.
523 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
524 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
525 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
527 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
528 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
529 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
532 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
533 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
535 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
536 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
537 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
538 needs to override this, it can.
540 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
541 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
542 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
544 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
545 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
546 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
547 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
549 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
555 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
556 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
558 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
560 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
563 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
564 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
566 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
567 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
568 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
570 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
571 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
572 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
573 not safe for signals.
575 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
576 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
577 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
578 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
581 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
583 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
584 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
585 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
586 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
587 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
589 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
590 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
591 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
592 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
593 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
594 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
596 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
597 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
598 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
599 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
601 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
602 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
603 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
604 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
606 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
607 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
608 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
609 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
610 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
611 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
612 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
613 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
614 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
616 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
617 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
618 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
619 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
621 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
622 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
623 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
624 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
625 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
626 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
627 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
628 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
629 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
630 details in the main documentation.
632 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
634 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
636 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
637 repository when doing development or release builds.
639 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
640 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
642 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
643 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
646 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
648 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
649 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
651 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
652 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
654 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
655 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
657 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
658 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
660 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
661 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
663 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
665 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
668 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
669 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
670 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
672 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
674 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
676 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
677 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
683 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
685 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
686 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
688 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
690 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
692 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
695 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
696 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
698 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
699 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
701 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
704 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
707 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
708 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
710 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
711 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
712 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
713 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
715 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
716 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
722 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
725 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
726 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
727 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
729 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
730 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
732 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
733 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
734 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
736 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
737 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
739 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
740 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
742 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
743 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
745 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
746 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
748 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
749 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
751 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
754 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
755 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
757 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
758 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
760 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
761 SQL string expansion failure details.
762 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
764 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
765 Patch from Simon Arlott.
767 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
768 extern declarations in function scope.
769 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
771 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
772 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
773 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
776 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
777 Patch from Mark Zealey.
779 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
780 Patch from Mark Zealey.
782 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
783 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
785 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
786 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
788 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
789 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
792 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
794 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
796 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
797 Patch by Simon Arlott
799 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
800 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
806 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
807 consequences so log it to the panic log.
809 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
810 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
812 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
814 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
815 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
816 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
818 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
819 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
820 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
822 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
823 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
824 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
825 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
827 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
828 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
829 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
830 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
832 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
833 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
834 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
837 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
840 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
841 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
842 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
843 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
844 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
850 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
851 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
852 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
854 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
855 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
857 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
859 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
861 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
863 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
865 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
867 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
868 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
869 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
870 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
872 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
873 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
874 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
875 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
876 more caution in buffer sizes.
878 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
880 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
882 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
884 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
886 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
888 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
890 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
892 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
893 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
894 ignore trailing whitespace.
896 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
898 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
901 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
902 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
904 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
905 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
906 Notification from John Horne.
908 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
911 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
912 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
915 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
918 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
919 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
920 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
922 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
923 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
924 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
927 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
928 option (effectively making it always true).
930 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
931 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
933 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
934 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
936 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
937 run-time user, instead of root.
939 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
940 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
942 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
943 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
946 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
947 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
948 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
950 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
952 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
958 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
959 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
962 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
963 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
966 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
967 Patch from Alain Williams
969 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
971 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
972 Patch from Andreas Metzler
974 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
975 Patch from Kirill Miazine
977 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
979 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
981 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
982 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
984 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
986 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
988 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
989 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
990 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
992 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
993 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
995 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
996 Patch by Simon Arlott
998 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
999 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1005 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1007 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1009 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1011 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1013 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1019 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1020 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1022 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1023 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1026 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1027 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1028 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1030 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1031 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1033 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1034 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1035 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1036 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1038 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1039 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1040 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1042 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1044 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1046 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1047 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1049 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1051 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1052 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1053 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1054 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1056 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1057 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1059 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1061 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1063 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1064 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1066 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1067 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1069 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1070 that they are available at delivery time.
1072 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1074 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1075 incoming_port log selectors.
1077 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1078 setting expands to an empty string.
1080 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1081 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1083 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1084 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1086 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1087 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1089 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1090 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1092 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1093 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1095 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1096 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1098 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1100 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1101 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1103 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1104 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1106 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1108 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1109 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1111 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1113 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1115 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1118 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1119 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1121 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1122 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1124 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1125 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1127 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1128 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1130 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1131 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1133 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1134 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1136 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1137 plus update to original patch.
1139 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1141 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1142 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1144 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1146 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1148 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1150 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1152 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1153 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1155 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1156 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1158 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1159 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1161 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1162 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1164 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1166 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1168 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1170 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1176 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1177 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1178 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1180 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1181 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1182 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1183 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1184 build errors in sieve.c.
1186 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1187 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1188 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1190 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1192 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1194 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1196 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1202 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1204 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1205 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1206 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1207 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1208 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1209 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1210 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1211 for iplsearch lookups.
1213 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1214 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1215 previously such lookups could never work.
1217 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1218 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1219 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1221 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1224 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1225 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1226 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1227 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1228 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1229 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1231 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1232 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1234 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1235 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1236 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1237 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1238 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1239 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1241 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1244 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1246 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1247 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1250 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1251 by clients under certain conditions.
1253 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1254 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1256 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1258 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1259 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1261 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1263 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1265 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1267 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1268 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1270 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1272 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1273 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1275 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1277 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1279 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1280 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1281 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1282 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1284 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1285 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1286 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1288 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1289 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1291 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1293 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1295 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1297 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1298 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1299 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1305 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1306 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1309 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1310 issue a MAIL command.
1312 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1314 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1316 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1317 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1318 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1319 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1320 item. This has been fixed.
1322 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1323 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1325 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1326 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1328 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1329 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1330 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1332 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1334 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1335 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1336 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1337 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1338 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1340 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1341 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1342 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1344 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1345 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1346 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1347 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1349 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1351 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1353 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1354 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1355 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1356 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1357 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1359 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1361 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1362 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1363 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1366 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1368 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1370 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1372 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1374 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1376 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1377 no_callout_flush is set.
1379 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1380 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1381 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1384 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1386 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1387 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1388 other ACL rejections are.
1390 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1391 with slight modification.
1393 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1394 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1396 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1397 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1400 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1401 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1403 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1405 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1406 expansion side effects.
1408 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1409 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1410 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1413 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1414 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1415 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1417 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1418 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1419 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1420 were accidentally chopped off.
1422 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1423 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1424 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1425 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1426 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1427 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1428 pipelining has not been advertised.
1430 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1432 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1433 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1434 This has been fixed.
1436 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1437 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1438 reported on Solaris.
1440 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1441 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1442 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1443 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1444 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1445 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1446 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1448 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1451 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1453 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1455 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1456 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1457 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1458 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1459 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1460 criteria to be more general.
1462 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1463 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1464 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1465 host_all_ignored option.
1467 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1468 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1469 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1470 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1471 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1472 is what is supposed to happen).
1474 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1475 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1476 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1477 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1478 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1481 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1482 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1483 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1484 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1485 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1486 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1489 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1491 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1492 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1494 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1495 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1497 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1499 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1501 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1502 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1503 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1504 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1505 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1506 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1507 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1508 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1509 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1510 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1511 least in a lot of common cases.
1513 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1514 advertised in response to EHLO.
1520 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1521 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1523 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1524 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1526 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1527 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1528 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1530 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1531 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1532 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1533 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1534 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1540 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1541 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1544 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1545 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1546 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1548 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1549 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1550 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1551 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1552 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1553 rather than extend the field.
1559 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1560 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1561 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1562 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1565 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1566 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1567 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1569 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1570 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1571 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1573 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1574 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1575 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1578 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1579 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1580 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1581 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1582 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1583 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1584 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1585 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1586 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1587 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1588 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1590 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1593 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1594 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1595 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1596 ignores EPIPE as well.
1598 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1599 (quoted-printable decoding).
1601 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1602 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1604 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1606 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1608 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1610 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1611 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1613 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1616 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1617 miscellaneous code fixes
1619 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1622 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1623 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1624 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1625 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1626 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1627 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1628 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1629 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1631 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1632 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1633 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1634 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1636 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1637 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1638 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1639 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1640 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1641 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1642 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1643 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1644 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1646 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1649 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1650 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1651 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1652 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1653 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1654 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1655 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1656 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1658 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1659 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1662 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1663 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1664 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1665 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1666 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1667 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1668 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1669 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1670 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1671 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1672 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1673 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1674 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1676 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1677 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1678 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1679 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1680 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1681 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1682 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1684 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1685 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1686 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1687 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1688 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1689 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1690 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1691 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1692 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1693 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1695 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1696 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1697 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1698 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1699 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1701 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1702 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1703 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1704 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1705 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1706 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1707 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1709 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1710 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1711 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1712 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1713 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1714 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1717 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1718 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1719 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1722 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1723 if any retry times were supplied.
1725 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1726 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1727 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1729 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1731 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1733 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1734 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1735 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1736 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1737 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1738 before) are ignored.
1740 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1741 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1743 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1744 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1745 committing the later change.]
1747 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1748 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1749 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1750 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1751 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1752 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1753 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1754 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1755 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1757 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1758 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1759 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1760 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1761 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1762 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1763 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1764 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1765 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1767 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1768 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1769 hammering the server.
1771 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1772 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1774 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1776 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1777 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1778 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1780 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1781 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1782 one case where this was not true.
1784 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1785 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1786 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1787 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1790 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1791 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1792 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1793 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1794 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1795 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1796 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1797 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1798 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1801 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1802 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1803 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1804 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1806 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1807 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1809 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1810 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1811 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1813 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1815 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1817 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1819 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1820 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1821 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1822 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1824 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1825 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1827 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1828 be meaningful with "accept".
1830 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1831 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1833 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1834 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1835 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1837 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1838 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1839 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1840 there is data to show.
1841 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1843 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1844 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1845 as well as the number of messages.
1847 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1848 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1849 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1851 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1852 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1853 have a flag are now skipped.
1855 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1856 Added the -emptyok flag.
1858 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1859 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1861 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1862 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1863 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1865 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1868 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1869 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1871 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1873 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1874 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1876 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1878 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1879 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1880 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1881 contravention of the specifications.
1883 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1884 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1885 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1887 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1888 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1889 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1891 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1893 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1894 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1895 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1896 some point in the past.
1898 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1899 transport during callout processing was broken.
1901 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1902 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1904 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1905 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1907 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1908 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1910 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1916 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1917 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1919 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1920 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1921 there is data to show.
1922 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1924 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1925 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1927 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1928 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1930 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1931 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1933 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1934 submissions from trusted users.
1936 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1937 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1939 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1940 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1941 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1942 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1943 there is now a framework to start from.
1945 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1946 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1947 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1949 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1951 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1953 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1955 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1956 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1957 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1959 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1962 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1963 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1964 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1966 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1967 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1968 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1971 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1972 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1973 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1974 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1975 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1977 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1978 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1980 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1982 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1983 operations in malware.c.
1985 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1988 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1989 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1990 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1993 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1994 statements to "add_header".
1996 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1997 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1999 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2000 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2003 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2007 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2008 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2009 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2012 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2013 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2015 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2016 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2018 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2019 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2020 any possible encoding problems.
2022 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2023 but not after initializing Perl.
2025 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2026 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2027 apparently, which is not desirable.
2029 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2032 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2035 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2037 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2038 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2039 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2040 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2042 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2043 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2044 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2046 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2047 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2048 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2051 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2052 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2053 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2054 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2055 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2061 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2062 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2064 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2067 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2068 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2069 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2070 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2071 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2072 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2073 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2074 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2077 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2079 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2080 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2081 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2083 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2084 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2085 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2088 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2089 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2091 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2092 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2093 option (which defaults to 0600).
2095 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2097 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2098 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2099 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2100 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2101 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2102 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2103 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2105 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2111 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2112 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2113 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2114 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2115 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2116 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2119 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2120 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2122 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2124 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2125 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2126 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2127 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2128 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2131 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2132 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2134 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2135 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2136 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2137 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2138 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2140 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2141 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2142 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2143 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2145 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2146 be the same on different OS.
2148 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2151 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2152 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2154 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2157 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2158 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2159 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2160 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2161 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2162 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2165 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2166 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2167 when Exim was called.
2169 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2170 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2172 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2173 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2174 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2175 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2177 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2178 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2179 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2180 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2183 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2184 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2185 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2187 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2188 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2189 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2191 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2194 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2195 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2196 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2197 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2198 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2199 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2200 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2201 values from the SRV records were lost.
2203 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2204 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2205 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2207 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2208 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2209 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2211 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2212 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2213 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2214 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2215 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2216 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2217 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2218 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2219 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2220 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2222 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2223 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2224 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2226 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2227 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2229 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2230 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2231 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2232 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2235 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2236 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2237 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2239 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2240 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2241 PH/23 above applies.
2243 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2244 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2245 (for which there is an explicit test).
2247 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2249 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2250 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2251 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2252 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2253 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2255 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2256 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2257 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2258 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2260 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2261 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2262 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2264 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2266 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2268 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2269 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2270 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2272 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2273 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2274 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2275 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2276 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2278 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2279 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2280 the message gets confusing).
2282 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2283 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2284 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2285 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2287 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2288 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2289 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2290 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2293 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2294 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2295 the different processes.
2297 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2299 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2301 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2302 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2304 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2305 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2307 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2308 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2309 messages matching specified criteria.
2311 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2313 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2314 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2316 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2317 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2318 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2319 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2320 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2321 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2322 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2323 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2324 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2325 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2327 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2328 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2329 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2331 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2333 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2334 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2335 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2336 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2337 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2338 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2339 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2342 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2343 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2345 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2347 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2349 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2351 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2352 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2353 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2354 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2355 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2356 size of the count of files.
2358 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2360 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2363 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2364 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2365 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2366 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2368 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2369 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2370 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2372 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2373 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2374 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2375 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2376 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2378 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2379 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2381 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2382 will now be deprecated.
2384 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2386 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2387 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2388 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2390 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2391 with very large, slow to parse queues
2393 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2395 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2397 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2398 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2399 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2402 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2403 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2404 Sieve code now uses this.
2406 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2407 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2409 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2410 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2412 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2414 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2415 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2416 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2417 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2418 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2420 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2421 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2422 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2423 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2425 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2427 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2429 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2430 is preferred over IPv4.
2432 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2433 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2434 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2435 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2436 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2437 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2438 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2440 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2441 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2442 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2444 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2446 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2447 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2448 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2449 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2450 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2451 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2452 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2453 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2454 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2455 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2456 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2458 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2459 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2460 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2466 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2468 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2469 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2471 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2472 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2473 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2475 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2477 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2480 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2483 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2484 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2485 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2488 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2489 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2491 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2492 inside the third argument.
2494 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2495 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2498 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2499 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2501 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2502 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2504 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2506 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2507 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2510 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2512 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2513 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2514 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2515 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2516 identical. For example:
2518 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2520 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2521 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2522 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2524 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2525 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2526 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2527 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2529 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2530 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2531 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2534 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2536 o fixes some comments
2537 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2538 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2539 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2540 and documents the missing references header update
2544 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2545 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2548 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2549 Electronic Mail") by including:
2551 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2553 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2554 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2555 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2556 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2557 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2559 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2561 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2563 The auto-replied keyword:
2565 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2566 message by an automatic process,
2568 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2570 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2571 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2573 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2574 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2577 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2578 to the default Received: header definition.
2580 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2582 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2583 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2584 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2586 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2587 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2588 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2590 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2591 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2592 and treats the condition as false.
2594 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2596 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2597 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2598 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2599 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2600 not changing the active code.
2602 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2603 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2605 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2606 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2608 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2611 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2612 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2613 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2614 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2615 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2616 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2617 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2618 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2619 the text comparison.
2621 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2622 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2623 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2624 The same fix has been applied.
2630 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2631 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2634 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2635 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2637 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2639 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2640 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2641 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2642 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2643 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2645 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2646 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2647 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2648 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2651 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2659 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2660 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2662 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2664 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2666 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2667 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2668 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2670 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2671 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2672 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2674 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2675 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2678 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2679 ${stat: expansion item.
2681 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2682 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2684 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2685 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2688 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2690 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2693 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2694 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2696 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2698 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2699 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2700 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2701 the end of the subprocess.
2703 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2704 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2705 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2706 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2707 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2709 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2711 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2713 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2714 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2716 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2718 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2720 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2721 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2724 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2726 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2727 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2728 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2730 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2731 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2733 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2734 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2736 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2737 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2739 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2740 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2742 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2743 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2744 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2745 contributed by a Radius user.
2747 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2748 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2750 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2751 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2753 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2756 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2757 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2760 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2761 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2762 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2763 header lines when this was not necessary.
2765 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2767 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2768 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2769 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2772 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2775 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2776 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2777 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2778 return code was incorrect.
2780 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2782 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2784 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2786 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2788 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2789 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2790 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2791 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2792 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2795 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2797 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2798 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2799 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2800 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2801 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2802 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2803 which is clearly wrong.
2805 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2807 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2808 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2809 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2812 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2813 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2815 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2817 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2818 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2820 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2821 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2823 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2824 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2826 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2827 recipients, not senders.
2829 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2830 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2832 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2834 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2836 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2837 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2838 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2839 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2841 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2843 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2844 clock is set back in time.
2846 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2847 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2849 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2850 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2852 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2853 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2856 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2857 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2860 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2863 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2865 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2866 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2867 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2869 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2870 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2871 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2872 helo verification defer as a failure.
2874 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2875 actual error message.
2881 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2883 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2884 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2885 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2886 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2888 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2890 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2891 can still be requested.
2893 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2894 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2895 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2896 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2898 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2899 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2900 circumstances, but probably never did.
2902 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2903 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2904 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2907 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2909 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2910 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2912 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2914 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2916 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2917 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2918 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2919 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2920 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2921 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2923 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2924 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2925 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2926 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2927 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2928 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2930 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2931 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2933 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2934 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2936 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2937 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2939 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2941 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2943 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2945 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2947 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2949 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2951 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2953 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2954 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2955 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2957 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2958 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2959 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2960 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2962 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2963 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2964 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2966 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2967 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2968 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2969 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2971 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2972 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2975 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2976 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2977 should work with maildirs and everything.
2979 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2980 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2982 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2985 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2986 function for BDB 4.3.
2988 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2990 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2991 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2994 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2995 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2996 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2997 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2998 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2999 formatting function string_vformat().
3001 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3002 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3003 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3004 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3005 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3006 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3007 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3008 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3010 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3011 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3014 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3015 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3017 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3018 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3019 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3020 test. It is now used for both.
3022 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3023 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3024 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3025 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3026 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3027 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3029 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3030 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3031 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3034 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3035 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3036 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3038 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3039 experimental DomainKeys support:
3041 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3042 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3043 the control was given.
3045 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3047 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3049 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3051 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3052 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3053 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3056 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3057 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3058 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3059 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3060 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3061 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3064 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3065 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3066 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3067 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3068 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3069 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3071 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3072 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3073 do -d+all out of habit.
3075 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3076 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3079 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3080 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3081 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3082 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3083 record types that Exim uses.
3085 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3086 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3087 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3088 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3089 non-existent file that was broken.
3091 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3092 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3094 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3095 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3096 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3098 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3100 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3101 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3102 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3103 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3104 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3107 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3108 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3109 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3110 at a slight CPU cost.
3112 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3113 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3115 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3118 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3120 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3121 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3127 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3128 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3130 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3132 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3134 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3135 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3137 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3138 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3139 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3140 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3141 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3142 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3145 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3146 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3147 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3148 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3151 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3152 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3153 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3154 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3155 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3156 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3157 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3160 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3161 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3163 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3164 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3165 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3166 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3167 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3168 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3170 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3171 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3172 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3173 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3175 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3178 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3179 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3181 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3182 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3183 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3184 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3187 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3189 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3190 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3192 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3193 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3194 to what was transported.)
3196 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3198 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3199 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3200 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3201 spamd_address settings.
3203 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3204 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3205 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3206 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3207 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3209 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3211 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3212 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3213 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3214 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3215 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3217 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3218 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3220 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3221 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3222 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3223 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3224 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3225 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3226 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3229 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3230 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3231 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3232 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3233 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3234 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3235 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3238 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3240 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3241 driver and ACL definitions.
3243 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3244 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3246 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3247 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3248 understands it better than I do:
3250 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3251 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3253 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3254 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3255 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3256 => three warnings about OTP not working
3257 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3259 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3260 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3261 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3262 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3264 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3265 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3267 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3268 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3269 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3271 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3272 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3275 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3276 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3279 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3280 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3281 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3283 warn !verify = sender
3284 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3286 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3287 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3289 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3291 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3292 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3294 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3295 nomenclature these days.)
3297 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3298 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3300 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3301 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3302 . First host does not offer TLS;
3303 . First host accepts first address;
3304 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3305 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3306 . Second host accepts second address.
3307 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3308 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3311 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3312 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3313 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3314 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3315 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3317 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3318 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3320 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3321 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3323 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3324 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3325 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3327 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3328 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3331 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3333 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3334 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3335 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3336 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3337 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3338 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3339 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3341 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3342 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3343 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3344 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3345 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3347 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3348 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3351 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3352 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3353 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3354 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3355 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3356 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3358 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3360 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3361 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3362 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3363 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3364 printable escape sequences.
3366 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3367 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3370 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3371 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3374 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3375 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3376 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3377 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3378 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3380 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3381 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3382 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3384 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3386 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3387 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3390 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3391 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3392 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3393 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3394 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3395 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3396 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3397 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3398 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3401 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3402 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3403 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3404 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3408 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3409 ----------------------------------------
3411 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3412 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3413 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3414 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3415 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3416 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3419 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3420 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3421 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3422 historical information.
3428 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3430 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3431 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3433 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3434 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3437 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3438 filter fails to execute.
3440 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3441 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3442 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3443 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3444 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3446 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3448 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3449 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3450 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3451 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3453 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3454 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3455 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3456 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3457 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3459 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3461 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3463 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3464 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3465 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3466 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3468 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3469 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3470 sender verification.
3472 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3473 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3475 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3477 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3480 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3481 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3483 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3484 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3486 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3487 information about exactly what failed.
3489 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3491 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3492 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3493 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3495 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3496 It is now set to "smtps".
3498 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3499 ignore_target_hosts.
3501 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3502 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3503 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3504 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3507 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3508 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3509 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3511 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3512 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3513 wake it up if nothing else does.
3515 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3516 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3517 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3520 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3521 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3523 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3525 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3526 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3527 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3528 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3529 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3530 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3531 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3532 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3534 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3535 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3536 than one IP address.
3538 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3539 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3540 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3541 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3543 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3544 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3545 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3546 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3547 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3550 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3551 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3552 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3553 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3555 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3556 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3559 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3560 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3561 $sender_host_address.
3563 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3564 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3565 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3566 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3567 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3570 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3572 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3573 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3575 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3576 just the host names, not the priorities.
3578 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3579 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3580 controlled by a keyword.
3582 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3583 multiple records are returned.
3585 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3586 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3589 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3591 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3592 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3594 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3595 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3596 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3598 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3600 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3602 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3604 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3605 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3606 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3607 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3608 because the tests only now provoked it.
3610 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3611 (this can affect the format of dates).
3613 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3614 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3615 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3616 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3618 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3620 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3621 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3622 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3623 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3625 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3626 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3627 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3629 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3632 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3633 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3634 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3635 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3636 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3637 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3640 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3641 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3642 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3645 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3646 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3647 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3649 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3650 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3651 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3652 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3653 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3654 so I produce this patch..."
3656 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3657 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3660 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3661 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3662 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3663 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3666 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3668 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3669 long debug lines gets shown.
3671 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3672 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3674 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3676 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3677 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3678 of $primary_hostname.
3680 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3681 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3682 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3683 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3684 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3685 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3686 by change 4.50/55 above.
3688 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3689 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3690 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3691 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3692 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3693 running as the user.
3696 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3697 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3698 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3701 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3702 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3704 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3705 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3706 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3707 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3708 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3710 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3711 This has been fixed.
3713 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3714 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3715 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3716 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3719 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3721 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3722 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3723 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3724 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3726 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3727 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3729 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3730 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3731 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3733 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3734 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3735 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3738 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3739 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3740 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3742 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3743 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3744 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3745 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3747 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3748 during host lookups.
3750 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3751 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3753 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3755 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3756 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3757 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3758 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3759 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3762 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3763 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3765 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3766 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3767 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3769 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3771 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3772 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3773 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3774 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3775 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3776 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3779 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3780 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3781 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3782 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3783 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3785 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3788 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3790 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3791 "vacation" handling.
3793 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3794 OS variants using glibc.
3796 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3799 ----------------------------------------------------
3800 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3801 ----------------------------------------------------
3807 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3808 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3811 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3812 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3815 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3816 filter fails to execute.
3818 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3819 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3820 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3821 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3822 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3824 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3825 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3826 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3827 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3829 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3830 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3831 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3832 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3833 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3835 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3837 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3838 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3839 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3840 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3842 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3843 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3844 sender verification.
3846 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3847 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3849 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3850 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3852 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3853 ignore_target_hosts.
3855 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3856 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3857 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3858 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3861 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3862 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3863 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3865 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3866 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3867 wake it up if nothing else does.
3869 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3870 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3871 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3874 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3875 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3877 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3879 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3880 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3883 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3884 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3887 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3888 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3889 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3890 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3891 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3894 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3895 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3898 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3899 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3900 $sender_host_address.
3902 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3904 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3905 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3906 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3908 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3911 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3912 (this can affect the format of dates).
3914 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3915 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3916 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3917 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3919 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3920 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3921 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3923 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3924 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3925 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3926 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3928 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3929 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3930 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3932 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3935 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3936 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3937 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3938 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3939 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3940 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3943 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3944 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3945 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3946 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3949 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3950 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3951 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3952 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3953 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3954 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3955 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3957 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3958 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3959 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3960 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3961 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3962 running as the user.
3965 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3966 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3967 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3970 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3971 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3972 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3973 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3974 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3976 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3977 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3978 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3979 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3982 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3983 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3984 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3985 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3986 because the tests only now provoked it.
3992 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3993 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3994 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3995 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3996 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3997 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3998 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4000 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4001 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4004 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4006 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4008 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4009 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4012 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4013 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4014 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4015 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4016 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4018 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4019 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4021 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4023 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4025 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4028 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4029 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4031 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4032 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4033 affecting debugging statements).
4035 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4037 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4038 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4039 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4040 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4041 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4042 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4043 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4044 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4045 after the received time, and all would be well.
4047 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4048 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4049 condition in an expansion string.
4051 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4053 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4054 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4055 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4056 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4057 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4058 job under whatever limits there are.
4060 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4062 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4065 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4066 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4067 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4068 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4071 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4072 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4073 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4074 binary data in such strings.
4076 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4078 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4079 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4080 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4081 failure, which is pointless.
4083 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4085 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4087 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4088 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4089 Sender: header lines.
4091 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4092 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4093 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4095 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4096 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4097 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4098 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4099 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4102 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4103 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4104 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4105 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4106 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4108 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4109 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4110 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4113 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4114 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4116 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4117 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4119 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4121 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4123 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4125 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4128 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4130 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4132 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4133 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4134 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4135 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4137 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4138 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4144 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4145 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4146 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4148 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4149 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4150 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4151 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4152 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4153 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4155 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4156 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4157 verification failure".
4159 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4160 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4161 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4162 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4164 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4165 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4166 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4167 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4168 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4169 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4170 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4171 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4172 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4173 treated as a timeout.
4175 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4176 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4177 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4178 not set for Exim filters).
4180 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4181 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4182 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4184 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4186 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4187 try to make them clearer.
4189 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4190 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4192 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4194 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4196 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4197 only the Cygwin environment.
4199 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4200 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4201 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4202 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4203 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4205 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4206 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4207 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4208 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4209 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4210 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4211 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4213 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4214 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4216 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4218 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4219 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4220 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4222 To: susanne@some.where
4224 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4225 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4226 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4227 of addresses in From: header lines).
4229 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4230 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4231 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4233 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4234 treated as non-personal.
4236 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4237 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4239 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4241 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4243 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4244 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4245 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4247 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4248 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4250 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4251 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4252 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4253 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4254 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4255 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4257 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4258 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4259 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4260 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4261 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4262 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4263 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4264 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4266 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4268 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4269 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4271 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4272 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4273 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4275 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4276 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4278 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4279 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4280 rather than long int.
4282 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4284 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4290 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4291 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4292 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4293 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4294 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4295 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4301 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4302 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4304 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4305 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4306 socklen_t is defined.
4308 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4311 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4314 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4315 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4316 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4317 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4318 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4320 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4321 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4322 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4323 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4325 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4326 of flapping under certain conditions.
4328 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4329 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4330 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4332 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4334 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4336 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4337 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4338 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4339 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4341 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4342 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4343 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4344 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4345 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4346 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4347 preserved with the message after it was received.
4349 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4350 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4351 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4352 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4353 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4354 test suite worked just fine.
4356 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4357 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4358 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4360 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4361 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4364 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4365 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4366 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4367 does not fully solve it.
4369 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4370 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4371 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4372 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4373 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4375 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4376 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4377 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4379 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4380 string, for example:
4382 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4384 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4385 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4386 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4387 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4388 the routers could not see them.
4390 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4391 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4393 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4394 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4397 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4398 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4399 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4400 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4401 that needed quoting.
4403 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4404 was not being matched caselessly.
4406 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4409 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4410 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4411 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4412 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4413 when use_sender is false.
4415 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4417 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4419 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4421 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4422 the configuration file.
4424 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4425 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4427 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4429 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4430 bytes in the message body.
4432 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4433 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4436 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4438 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4440 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4441 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4442 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4443 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4450 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4451 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4453 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4454 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4455 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4456 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4457 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4459 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4460 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4462 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4463 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4464 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4466 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4467 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4468 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4470 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4473 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4474 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4475 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4476 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4477 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4478 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4479 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4485 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4486 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4487 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4488 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4489 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4490 default (and expected) setting.
4492 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4493 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4494 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4495 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4497 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4498 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4500 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4503 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4504 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4505 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4506 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4507 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4508 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4510 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4511 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4512 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4514 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4515 part (NOT match_host).
4517 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4519 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4520 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4521 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4522 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4523 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4524 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4525 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4526 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4527 the same named file.
4529 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4530 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4533 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4534 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4535 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4536 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4539 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4540 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4541 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4543 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4545 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4547 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4549 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4550 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4552 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4553 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4554 before starting the TLS session.
4556 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4558 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4559 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4561 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4562 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4563 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4564 colon in the middle).
4570 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4571 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4572 multiple configurations are in use.
4574 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4575 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4576 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4577 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4578 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4579 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4581 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4582 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4584 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4585 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4586 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4588 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4589 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4592 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4593 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4595 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4597 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4598 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4600 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4608 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4609 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4610 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4611 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4612 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4614 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4617 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4618 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4619 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4620 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4621 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4622 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4624 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4625 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4626 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4627 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4628 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4629 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4630 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4633 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4634 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4635 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4636 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4637 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4639 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4641 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4642 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4643 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4645 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4647 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4648 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4649 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4652 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4653 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4655 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4656 Three changes have been made:
4658 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4659 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4660 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4661 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4662 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4664 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4667 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4668 the modified behaviour.
4674 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4677 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4678 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4680 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4681 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4682 try to track down a specific problem.
4684 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4685 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4686 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4688 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4691 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4692 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4693 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4694 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4695 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4696 some earlier ones do not.
4698 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4700 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4701 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4702 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4703 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4704 address literals are enabled, of course).
4706 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4708 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4709 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4710 by a command such as
4714 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4716 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4718 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4719 remained set. It is now erased.
4721 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4722 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4724 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4725 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4726 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4727 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4728 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4729 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4730 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4731 appropriate error code.
4733 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4734 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4735 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4736 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4737 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4738 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4740 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4741 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4742 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4744 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4745 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4746 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4747 terminate the header.
4749 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4750 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4751 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4753 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4754 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4755 (4.30/29). In particular:
4757 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4760 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4761 to write a maildirsize file.
4763 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4764 the transport, the new value overrides.
4766 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4769 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4770 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4771 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4774 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4775 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4776 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4779 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4780 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4781 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4783 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4784 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4787 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4788 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4789 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4791 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4793 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4795 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4797 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4798 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4801 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4802 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4803 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4804 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4805 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4806 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4807 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4810 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4811 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4812 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4813 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4814 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4817 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4818 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4819 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4820 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4821 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4822 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4823 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4824 cached value only when the same options are set.
4826 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4828 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4829 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4830 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4831 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4832 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4834 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4835 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4836 it is clearly obsolete.
4838 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4841 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4842 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4843 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4846 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4847 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4848 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4849 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4850 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4852 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4853 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4854 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4855 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4857 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4859 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4861 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4862 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4865 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4866 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4867 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4868 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4869 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4870 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4873 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4874 with the -f command-line option.
4876 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4877 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4878 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4879 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4880 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4881 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4883 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4884 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4887 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4888 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4889 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4890 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4891 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4892 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4893 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4894 buffer is too small.
4896 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4897 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4899 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4900 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4901 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4902 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4903 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4904 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4905 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4906 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4907 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4909 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4910 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4911 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4913 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4914 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4917 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4918 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4919 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4920 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4921 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4923 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4924 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4925 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4926 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4929 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4931 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4933 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4934 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4936 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4937 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4938 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4940 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4941 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4942 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4943 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4944 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4946 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4947 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4948 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4949 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4950 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4951 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4952 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4954 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4955 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4956 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4957 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4958 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4959 the test of how many are available.
4961 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4962 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4963 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4964 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4965 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4966 new message is started.
4968 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4969 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4971 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4972 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4974 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4975 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4976 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4979 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4980 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4981 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4982 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4983 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4984 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4985 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4987 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4988 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4989 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4990 interpreted as octal.
4992 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4995 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4996 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4997 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4998 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4999 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5000 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5002 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5003 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5004 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5005 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5007 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5008 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5009 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5010 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5012 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5013 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5016 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5017 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5019 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5021 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5022 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5023 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5024 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5026 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5027 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5028 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5029 supplied", which is not helpful.
5031 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5032 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5033 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5035 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5036 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5037 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5038 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5039 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5040 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5041 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5042 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5044 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5045 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5046 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5047 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5048 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5050 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5051 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5052 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5053 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5054 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5055 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5057 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5058 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5059 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5061 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
5063 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5064 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5065 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5068 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5070 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5071 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5072 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5073 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5074 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5075 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5076 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5077 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5079 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5080 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5081 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5082 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5083 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5085 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5088 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5089 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5090 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5091 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5092 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5093 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5094 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5095 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5096 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5102 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5103 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5104 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5106 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5109 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5110 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5111 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5113 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5114 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5115 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5116 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5117 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5118 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5120 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5121 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5122 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5123 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5124 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5125 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5126 the Exim test suite.
5128 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5129 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5130 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5131 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5133 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5134 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5135 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5136 specify it in this variable.
5138 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5139 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5140 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5141 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5143 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5144 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5145 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5146 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5148 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5149 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5150 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5151 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5152 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5154 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5156 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5159 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5160 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5161 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5162 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5163 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5165 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5166 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5168 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5169 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5170 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5171 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5172 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5174 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5175 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5177 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5178 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5179 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5181 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5182 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5184 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5185 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5187 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5188 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5189 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5191 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5192 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5194 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5195 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5196 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5197 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5199 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5201 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5202 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5203 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5204 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5206 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5208 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5209 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5211 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5213 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5214 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5215 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5216 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5217 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5218 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5220 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5222 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5223 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5226 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5228 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5229 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5231 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5232 550 Sender verify failed
5234 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5235 the final line of the response.
5237 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5238 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5239 all other user lookups.
5241 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5244 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5245 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5246 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5247 result into an int without checking.
5249 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5250 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5251 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5253 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5254 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5255 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5256 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5258 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5261 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5262 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5264 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5265 to the empty sender.
5267 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5268 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5269 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5270 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5271 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5272 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5273 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5276 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5277 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5278 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5279 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5282 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5283 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5285 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5288 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5289 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5291 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5293 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5294 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5297 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5298 as soon as it is encountered.
5300 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5302 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5305 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5306 recognizes a tab character.
5308 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5309 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5310 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5311 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5313 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5315 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5318 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5320 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5322 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5323 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5326 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5327 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5328 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5329 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5330 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5332 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5333 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5335 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5336 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5337 list (.included file names were always shown).
5339 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5340 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5341 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5344 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5345 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5347 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5349 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5351 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5353 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5354 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5355 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5356 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5357 failures to open the logs.
5359 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5360 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5361 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5362 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5363 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5364 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5365 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5371 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5372 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5373 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5376 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5377 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5378 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5380 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5381 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5382 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5384 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5385 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5386 causing some misleading effects.
5388 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5389 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5390 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5392 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5393 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5394 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5395 queue-runner function directly.
5401 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5404 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5405 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5406 was always written to the default place.
5408 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5409 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5410 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5412 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5414 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5416 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5417 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5418 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5420 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5421 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5424 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5425 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5426 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5428 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5429 command line option is disabled.
5431 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5432 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5434 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5436 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5438 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5439 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5441 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5443 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5444 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5445 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5446 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5447 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5448 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5450 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5451 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5454 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5455 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5457 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5458 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5460 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5461 received was valid base64.
5463 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5464 name of the variable that was being set.
5466 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5468 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5469 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5470 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5471 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5472 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5473 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5475 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5477 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5478 nor realm was specified.
5480 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5481 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5482 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5483 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5485 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5486 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5487 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5489 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5490 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5491 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5493 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5494 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5495 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5496 some systems use these upper case variants.
5498 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5499 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5500 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5501 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5503 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5505 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5506 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5508 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5509 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5512 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5514 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5515 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5516 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5517 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5519 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5522 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5523 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5524 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5526 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5527 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5529 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5530 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5531 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5532 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5534 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5535 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5536 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5538 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5540 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5541 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5542 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5543 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5546 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5547 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5548 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5550 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5552 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5553 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5555 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5556 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5558 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5559 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5560 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5561 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5562 when emails are that large.
5569 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5570 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5572 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5573 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5574 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5576 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5577 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5578 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5580 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5581 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5582 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5583 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5584 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5586 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5587 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5588 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5589 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5590 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5593 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5594 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5595 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5596 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5597 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5598 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5599 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5600 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5601 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5602 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5603 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5604 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5605 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5606 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5608 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5609 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5612 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5613 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5614 error should be diagnosed.
5616 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5617 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5618 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5619 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5620 appeared instead of "NULL".
5622 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5623 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5624 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5625 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5626 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5627 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5630 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5631 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5632 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5638 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5639 or receiver verification errors.
5641 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5644 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5645 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5646 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5647 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5649 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5650 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5651 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5652 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5653 shouldn't happen again.
5655 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5656 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5657 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5659 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5660 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5662 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5664 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5665 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5667 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5668 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5671 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5672 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5673 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5675 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5676 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5677 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5678 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5680 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5681 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5682 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5683 to define what should happen).
5685 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5686 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5687 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5689 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5691 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5693 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5694 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5696 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5697 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5698 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5699 structure in all cases.
5701 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5702 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5703 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5704 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5706 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5707 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5710 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5711 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5713 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5714 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5716 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5717 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5718 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5720 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5721 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5722 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5724 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5725 the book and for uniformity.
5727 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5729 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5730 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5731 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5732 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5733 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5734 non-existent command as the problem.
5736 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5737 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5738 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5740 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5742 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5743 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5744 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5746 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5747 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5748 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5749 timestamps using strftime().
5751 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5752 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5754 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5755 transport-time rewrites.
5757 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5758 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5759 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5760 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5762 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5763 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5765 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5766 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5767 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5768 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5771 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5772 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5773 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5774 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5775 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5776 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5777 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5779 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5780 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5781 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5782 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5783 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5785 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5786 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5787 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5788 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5789 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5790 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5791 remaining text gets split now.
5793 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5794 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5795 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5796 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5798 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5799 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5800 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5801 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5804 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5805 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5806 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5807 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5808 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5809 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5810 passed through if needed.
5812 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5813 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5814 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5815 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5816 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5817 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5819 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5820 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5821 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5822 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5823 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5825 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5826 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5827 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5828 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5829 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5831 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5832 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5835 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5836 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5837 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5838 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5839 mayhem of various kinds.
5841 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5842 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5843 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5844 the right test for positive values.
5846 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5847 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5848 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5849 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5850 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5851 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5852 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5853 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5854 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5855 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5858 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5861 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5862 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5865 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5866 the existing equality matching.
5868 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5869 dealing with inode numbers.
5871 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5872 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5873 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5875 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5876 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5877 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5878 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5881 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5882 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5883 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5884 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5885 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5886 relay addresses has also been removed.
5888 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5890 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5891 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5892 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5894 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5895 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5896 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5897 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5898 processing applies to CR:
5900 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5901 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5903 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5904 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5905 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5906 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5908 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5909 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5910 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5912 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5913 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5914 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5915 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5916 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5917 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5920 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5923 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5924 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5925 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5926 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5929 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5931 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5933 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5935 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5936 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5937 not considered personal.
5939 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5941 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5943 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5945 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5946 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5947 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5948 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5949 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5950 header lines, and spool format errors.
5952 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5953 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5954 for more flexibility.
5956 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5957 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5958 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5960 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5963 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5964 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5965 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5966 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5967 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5968 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5969 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5970 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5971 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5973 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5974 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5975 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5976 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5977 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5978 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5979 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5981 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5982 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5983 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5985 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5986 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5987 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5988 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5989 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5990 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5991 instead of killing the process with assert().
5993 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5994 than Unicode encoding.
5996 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5997 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5998 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5999 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6001 77. Added process_log_path.
6003 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6004 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6006 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6007 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6009 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6010 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6011 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6013 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6014 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6015 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6016 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6017 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6020 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6021 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6024 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6025 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6026 they will be used during message reception.
6032 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.