1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
7 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
9 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
10 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
11 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
13 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
14 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
15 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
16 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
17 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
18 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
19 if one fails this test.
20 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
21 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
23 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
24 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
26 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
27 selfsigned certificate for inbound TLS connections.
29 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
30 in rewrites and routers.
32 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
33 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
35 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
36 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
38 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
40 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
43 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
44 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
45 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
46 connection after a verify cache hit.
47 Do not update it with the verify result either.
49 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
50 when routing results in more than one destination address.
52 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
53 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
54 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
55 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
56 when the cutthrough connection is made).
58 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
59 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
61 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
62 Previously they were not counted.
64 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
65 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
66 that needed the lookup.
68 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a norml message arrival "<="; now
69 distinguished as "(=".
74 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
75 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
76 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
77 client dropping the TLS connection.
79 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
80 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
82 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
83 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
84 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
85 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
88 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
89 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
90 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
91 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
92 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
93 check on the next write.
95 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
96 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
97 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
98 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
99 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
101 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
102 mime_regex ACL conditions.
104 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
105 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
106 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
108 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
109 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
110 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
111 an authenticate fail is not an error.
113 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
114 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
116 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit cacheing of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
117 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
119 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
120 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
121 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
124 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
126 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
128 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
130 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
131 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
133 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
134 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
136 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
138 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
139 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
141 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
143 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
144 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
146 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
148 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
149 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
150 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testuite sane.
151 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
152 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
153 they will retry in-clear.
154 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
155 at installation time.
157 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
158 with the $config_file variable.
160 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
161 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
162 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
163 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
164 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx reponse.
166 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
167 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
168 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
169 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
170 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
172 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
174 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
175 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
176 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
177 list order is no longer honoured.
179 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalisation
182 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
183 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
185 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
186 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
187 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
188 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
190 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
191 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
193 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
194 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
196 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
197 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
199 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
201 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
202 cached by the daemon.
204 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
205 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
207 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
208 keys are given for lookup.
210 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
211 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
212 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
213 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
215 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
216 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
217 server-side so match that on older versions.
219 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
220 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
221 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
223 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
224 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
226 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
227 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
228 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
229 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
230 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
231 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
232 initial truncated version.
234 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
236 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
238 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
239 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
241 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
243 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
245 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
246 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
249 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
250 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
253 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
254 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
256 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
257 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
260 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
261 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
262 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
264 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
265 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
266 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
267 extraction. Accept either.
273 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
276 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
278 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
281 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
282 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
283 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
284 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
286 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
287 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
288 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
290 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
291 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
292 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
295 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
298 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
299 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
300 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
301 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
302 have a dsn_lasthop option.
304 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
305 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
306 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
308 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
310 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
311 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
313 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
314 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
316 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
319 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
320 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
322 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
323 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
324 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
326 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
327 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
328 specify a port-range.
330 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
331 timeout value per server.
333 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
334 now have the list separator specified.
336 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
339 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
342 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
344 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
345 rather than the verbs used.
347 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
348 from 255 to 1024 chars.
350 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
352 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
353 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
355 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
356 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
358 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
359 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
361 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
363 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
365 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
366 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
367 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
368 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
370 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
372 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
373 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
375 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
376 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
378 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
380 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
382 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
384 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
385 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
387 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
388 added for tls authenticator.
390 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
395 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
396 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
397 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
398 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
399 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
400 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
401 the script parsing/test process like normal.
403 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
404 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
405 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
406 function when detected.
408 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
409 cause callback expansion.
411 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
412 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
413 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
414 instead of bool when processing it.
416 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
417 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
419 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
421 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
423 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
425 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
426 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
428 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
429 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
430 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
431 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
432 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
433 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
435 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
436 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
439 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
440 version 3.3.6 or later.
442 JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
443 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
444 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
445 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
446 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
447 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
450 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
451 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
453 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
454 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
455 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
458 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
459 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
460 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
462 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
463 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
465 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
466 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
469 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
471 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
472 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
474 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
475 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
478 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
480 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
483 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
484 output list separator was used.
489 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
490 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
493 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
494 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
496 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
498 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
499 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
505 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
507 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
508 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
509 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
510 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
511 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
512 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
514 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
515 utilities have not been installed.
517 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
518 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
520 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
521 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
523 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
524 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
525 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
526 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
528 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
530 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
531 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
533 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
536 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
538 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
539 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
540 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
542 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
543 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
544 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
545 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
546 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
547 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
549 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
551 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
552 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
554 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
557 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
559 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
561 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
562 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
564 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
565 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
567 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
569 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
571 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
572 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
574 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
575 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
576 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
578 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
579 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
580 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
583 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
585 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
586 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
589 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
590 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
593 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
594 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
596 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
597 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
599 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
601 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
602 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
603 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
605 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
606 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
608 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
609 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
612 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
613 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
614 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
616 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
618 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
619 Christian Aistleitner.
621 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
623 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
624 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
626 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
627 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
629 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
630 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
632 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
633 support and error reporting did not work properly.
635 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
636 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
638 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
639 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
640 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
642 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
644 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
645 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
648 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
650 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
651 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
658 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
660 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
661 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
663 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
666 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
667 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
670 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
672 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
673 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
674 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
675 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
676 using channel bindings instead).
678 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
679 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
680 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
681 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
682 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
685 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
687 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
689 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
690 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
692 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
693 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
694 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
696 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
698 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
700 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
701 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
703 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
705 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
707 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
709 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
710 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
712 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
714 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
715 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
718 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
719 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
721 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
722 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
725 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
727 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
729 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
730 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
732 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
735 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
736 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
738 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
739 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
741 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
743 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
745 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
748 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
751 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
753 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
754 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
755 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
756 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
758 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
760 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
761 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
762 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
763 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
766 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
767 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
768 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
770 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
771 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
772 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
773 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
775 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
776 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
777 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
778 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
779 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
780 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
781 delivery, as in LMTP.
783 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
784 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
786 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
788 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
792 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
793 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
794 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
795 username as equal to the username.
797 This change corrects that bug.
799 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
800 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
801 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
803 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
805 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
806 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
807 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
808 NULL dereference and crash.
810 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
812 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
813 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
814 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
816 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
818 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
819 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
820 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
821 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
822 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
823 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
824 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
825 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
826 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
827 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
828 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
830 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
831 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
833 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
834 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
837 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
838 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
839 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
840 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
841 an empty string is now equivalent.
843 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
844 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
845 not performing validation itself.
847 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
848 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
850 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
853 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
855 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
856 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
857 other false fix of the same issue.
858 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
861 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
862 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
864 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
865 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
866 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
868 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
869 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
870 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
872 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
874 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
876 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
877 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
879 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
882 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
883 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
884 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
885 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
886 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
888 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
889 the src/util/ subdirectory.
891 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
892 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
895 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
896 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
897 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
898 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
900 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
902 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
903 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
904 from multiple comments on this bug.
906 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
908 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
909 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
912 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
913 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
915 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
916 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
922 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
924 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
930 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
931 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
932 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
934 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
936 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
939 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
941 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
943 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
945 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
946 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
948 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
949 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
951 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
952 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
954 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
955 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
956 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
958 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
960 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
961 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
963 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
965 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
967 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
968 non-compliant senders.
969 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
971 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
972 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
973 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
975 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
976 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
977 in spool file corruption.
979 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
980 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
981 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
984 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
985 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
986 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
988 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
989 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
991 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
993 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
995 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
997 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
998 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
999 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1001 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1002 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1003 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1004 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1006 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1007 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1009 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1010 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1011 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1012 resolver implementation change.
1014 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1015 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1017 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1019 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1021 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1022 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1024 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1025 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1027 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1028 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1030 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1031 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1032 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1033 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1034 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1036 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1038 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1039 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1040 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1042 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1044 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1045 read-only, out of scope).
1046 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1048 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1049 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1050 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1051 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1053 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1055 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1056 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1057 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1058 real issues in debug logging.
1060 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1061 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1063 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1064 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1065 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1067 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1068 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1069 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1072 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1073 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1075 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1076 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1077 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1078 needs to override this, it can.
1080 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1081 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1082 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1084 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1085 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1086 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1087 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1089 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1095 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1096 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1098 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1100 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1103 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1104 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1106 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1107 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1108 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1110 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1111 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1112 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1113 not safe for signals.
1115 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1116 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1117 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1118 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1121 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1123 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1124 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1125 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1126 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1127 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1129 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1130 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1131 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1132 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1133 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1134 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1136 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1137 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1138 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1139 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1141 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1142 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1143 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1144 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1146 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1147 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1148 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1149 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1150 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1151 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1152 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1153 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1154 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1156 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1157 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1158 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1159 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1161 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1162 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1163 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1164 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1165 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1166 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1167 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1168 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1169 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1170 details in the main documentation.
1172 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1174 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1176 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1177 repository when doing development or release builds.
1179 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1180 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1182 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1183 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1186 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1188 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1189 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1191 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1192 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1194 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1195 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1197 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1198 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1200 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1201 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1203 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1205 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1208 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1209 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1210 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1212 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1214 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1216 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1217 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1223 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1225 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1226 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1228 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1230 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1232 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1235 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1236 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1238 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1239 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1241 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1242 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1244 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1247 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1248 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1250 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1251 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1252 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1253 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1255 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1256 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1262 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1265 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1266 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1267 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1269 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1270 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1272 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1273 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1274 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1276 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1277 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1279 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1280 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1282 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1283 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1285 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1286 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1288 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1289 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1291 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1294 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1295 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1297 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1298 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1300 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1301 SQL string expansion failure details.
1302 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1304 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1305 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1307 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1308 extern declarations in function scope.
1309 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1311 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1312 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1313 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1316 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1317 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1319 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1320 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1322 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1323 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1325 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1326 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1328 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1329 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1332 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1334 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1336 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1337 Patch by Simon Arlott
1339 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1340 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1346 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1347 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1349 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1350 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1352 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1354 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1355 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1356 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1358 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1359 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1360 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1362 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1363 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1364 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1365 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1367 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1368 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1369 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1370 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1372 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1373 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1374 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1377 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1380 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1381 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1382 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1383 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1384 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1390 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1391 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1392 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1394 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1395 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1397 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1399 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1401 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1403 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
1405 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1407 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
1408 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1409 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
1410 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1412 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1413 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1414 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
1415 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1416 more caution in buffer sizes.
1418 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1420 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1422 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1424 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1426 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1428 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1430 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1432 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
1433 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1434 ignore trailing whitespace.
1436 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1438 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1441 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1442 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1444 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1445 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1446 Notification from John Horne.
1448 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1451 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1452 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1455 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1458 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1459 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1460 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1462 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1463 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1464 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1467 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1468 option (effectively making it always true).
1470 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1471 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1473 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1474 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1476 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1477 run-time user, instead of root.
1479 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
1480 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1482 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1483 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1486 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1487 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1488 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1490 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1492 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1498 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1499 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1502 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1503 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1506 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1507 Patch from Alain Williams
1509 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1511 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1512 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1514 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1515 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1517 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1519 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1521 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
1522 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
1524 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1526 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1528 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1529 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1530 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1532 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1533 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
1535 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
1536 Patch by Simon Arlott
1538 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
1539 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
1545 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
1547 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1549 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1551 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1553 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1559 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
1560 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
1562 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1563 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
1566 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1567 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
1568 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
1570 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1571 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1573 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1574 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1575 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1576 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1578 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1579 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
1580 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
1582 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1584 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1586 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
1587 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
1589 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
1591 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1592 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1593 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1594 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1596 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
1597 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
1599 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
1601 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
1603 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
1604 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
1606 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1607 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
1609 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1610 that they are available at delivery time.
1612 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1614 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1615 incoming_port log selectors.
1617 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1618 setting expands to an empty string.
1620 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
1621 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1623 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
1624 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
1626 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
1627 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
1629 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1630 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
1632 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1633 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
1635 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
1636 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1638 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1640 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
1641 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1643 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
1644 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
1646 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1648 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
1649 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
1651 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1653 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
1655 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1658 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1659 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1661 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1662 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1664 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1665 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
1667 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1668 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
1670 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1671 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1673 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1674 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
1676 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1677 plus update to original patch.
1679 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1681 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1682 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1684 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1686 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1688 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1690 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1692 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1693 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1695 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1696 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1698 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1699 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1701 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1702 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1704 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1706 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1708 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1710 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1716 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1717 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1718 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1720 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1721 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1722 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1723 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1724 build errors in sieve.c.
1726 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1727 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1728 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1730 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1732 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1734 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1736 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1742 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1744 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1745 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1746 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1747 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1748 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1749 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1750 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1751 for iplsearch lookups.
1753 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1754 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1755 previously such lookups could never work.
1757 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1758 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1759 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1761 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1764 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1765 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1766 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1767 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1768 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1769 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1771 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1772 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1774 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1775 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1776 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1777 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1778 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1779 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1781 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1784 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1786 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1787 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1790 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1791 by clients under certain conditions.
1793 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1794 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1796 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1798 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1799 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1801 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1803 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1805 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1807 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1808 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1810 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1812 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1813 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1815 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1817 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1819 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1820 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1821 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1822 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1824 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1825 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1826 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1828 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1829 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1831 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1833 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1835 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1837 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1838 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1839 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1845 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1846 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1849 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1850 issue a MAIL command.
1852 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1854 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1856 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1857 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1858 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1859 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1860 item. This has been fixed.
1862 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1863 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1865 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1866 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1868 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1869 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1870 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1872 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1874 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1875 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1876 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1877 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1878 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1880 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1881 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1882 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1884 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1885 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1886 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1887 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1889 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1891 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1893 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1894 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1895 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1896 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1897 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1899 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1901 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1902 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1903 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1906 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1908 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1910 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1912 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1914 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1916 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1917 no_callout_flush is set.
1919 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1920 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1921 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1924 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1926 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1927 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1928 other ACL rejections are.
1930 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1931 with slight modification.
1933 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1934 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1936 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1937 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1940 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1941 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1943 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1945 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1946 expansion side effects.
1948 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1949 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1950 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1953 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1954 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1955 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1957 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1958 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1959 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1960 were accidentally chopped off.
1962 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1963 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1964 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1965 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1966 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1967 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1968 pipelining has not been advertised.
1970 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1972 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1973 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1974 This has been fixed.
1976 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1977 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1978 reported on Solaris.
1980 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1981 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1982 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1983 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1984 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1985 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1986 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1988 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1991 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1993 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1995 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1996 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1997 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1998 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1999 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2000 criteria to be more general.
2002 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2003 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2004 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2005 host_all_ignored option.
2007 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2008 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2009 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2010 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2011 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2012 is what is supposed to happen).
2014 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2015 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2016 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2017 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2018 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2021 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2022 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2023 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2024 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2025 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2026 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2029 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2031 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2032 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2034 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2035 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2037 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2039 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2041 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2042 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2043 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2044 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2045 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2046 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2047 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2048 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2049 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2050 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2051 least in a lot of common cases.
2053 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2054 advertised in response to EHLO.
2060 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2061 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2063 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2064 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2066 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2067 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2068 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2070 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2071 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2072 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2073 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2074 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2080 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2081 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2084 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2085 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2086 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2088 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2089 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2090 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2091 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2092 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2093 rather than extend the field.
2099 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2100 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2101 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2102 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2105 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2106 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2107 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2109 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2110 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2111 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2113 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2114 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2115 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2118 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2119 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2120 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2121 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2122 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2123 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2124 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2125 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2126 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2127 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2128 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2130 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2133 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2134 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2135 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2136 ignores EPIPE as well.
2138 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2139 (quoted-printable decoding).
2141 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2142 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2144 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2146 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2148 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2150 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2151 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2153 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2156 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2157 miscellaneous code fixes
2159 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2162 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2163 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2164 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2165 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2166 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2167 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2168 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2169 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2171 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2172 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2173 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2174 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2176 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2177 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2178 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2179 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2180 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2181 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2182 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2183 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2184 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2186 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2189 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2190 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2191 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2192 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2193 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2194 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2195 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2196 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2198 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2199 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2202 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2203 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2204 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2205 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2206 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2207 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2208 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2209 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2210 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2211 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2212 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2213 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2214 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2216 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2217 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2218 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2219 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2220 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2221 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2222 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2224 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2225 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2226 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2227 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2228 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2229 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2230 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2231 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2232 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2233 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2235 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2236 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2237 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2238 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2239 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2241 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2242 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2243 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2244 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2245 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2246 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2247 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2249 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2250 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2251 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2252 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2253 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2254 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2257 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2258 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2259 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2262 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2263 if any retry times were supplied.
2265 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2266 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2267 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2269 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2271 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2273 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2274 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2275 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2276 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2277 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2278 before) are ignored.
2280 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2281 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2283 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2284 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2285 committing the later change.]
2287 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2288 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2289 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2290 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2291 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2292 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2293 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2294 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2295 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2297 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2298 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2299 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2300 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2301 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2302 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2303 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2304 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2305 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2307 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2308 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2309 hammering the server.
2311 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2312 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2314 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2316 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2317 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2318 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2320 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2321 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2322 one case where this was not true.
2324 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2325 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2326 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2327 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2330 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2331 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2332 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2333 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2334 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2335 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2336 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2337 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2338 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2341 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2342 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2343 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2344 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2346 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2347 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2349 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2350 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2351 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2353 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2355 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2357 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2359 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2360 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2361 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2362 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2364 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2365 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2367 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2368 be meaningful with "accept".
2370 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2371 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2373 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2374 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2375 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2377 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2378 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2379 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2380 there is data to show.
2381 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2383 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2384 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2385 as well as the number of messages.
2387 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2388 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2389 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2391 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2392 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2393 have a flag are now skipped.
2395 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2396 Added the -emptyok flag.
2398 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2399 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2401 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2402 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2403 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2405 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2408 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2409 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2411 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2413 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2414 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2416 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2418 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2419 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2420 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2421 contravention of the specifications.
2423 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2424 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2425 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
2427 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2428 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2429 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2431 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2433 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2434 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2435 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2436 some point in the past.
2438 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2439 transport during callout processing was broken.
2441 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2442 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2444 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2445 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2447 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2448 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2450 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2456 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2457 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2459 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2460 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2461 there is data to show.
2462 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2464 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2465 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2467 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2468 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
2470 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2471 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
2473 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2474 submissions from trusted users.
2476 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2477 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2479 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2480 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2481 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2482 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2483 there is now a framework to start from.
2485 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2486 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2487 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2489 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2491 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2493 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2495 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2496 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2497 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2499 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2502 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2503 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2504 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2506 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2507 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2508 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2511 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2512 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2513 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2514 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2515 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2517 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2518 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2520 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2522 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2523 operations in malware.c.
2525 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2528 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2529 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2530 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2533 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2534 statements to "add_header".
2536 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2537 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2539 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2540 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2543 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
2547 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2548 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2549 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
2552 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2553 don't think Precedence: ever was.
2555 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2556 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2558 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2559 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2560 any possible encoding problems.
2562 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2563 but not after initializing Perl.
2565 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2566 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2567 apparently, which is not desirable.
2569 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2572 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2575 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2577 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2578 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2579 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2580 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2582 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2583 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2584 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2586 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2587 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2588 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2591 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2592 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2593 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2594 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2595 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2601 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2602 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2604 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2607 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2608 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2609 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2610 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2611 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2612 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2613 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2614 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2617 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2619 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2620 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2621 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2623 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2624 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2625 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2628 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2629 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2631 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2632 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2633 option (which defaults to 0600).
2635 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2637 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2638 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2639 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2640 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2641 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2642 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2643 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2645 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2651 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2652 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2653 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2654 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2655 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2656 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2659 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2660 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2662 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2664 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2665 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2666 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2667 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2668 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2671 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2672 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2674 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2675 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2676 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2677 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2678 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2680 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2681 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2682 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2683 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2685 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2686 be the same on different OS.
2688 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2691 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2692 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2694 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2697 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2698 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2699 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2700 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2701 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2702 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2705 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2706 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2707 when Exim was called.
2709 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2710 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2712 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2713 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2714 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2715 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2717 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2718 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2719 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2720 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2723 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2724 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2725 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2727 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2728 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2729 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2731 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2734 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2735 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2736 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2737 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2738 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2739 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2740 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2741 values from the SRV records were lost.
2743 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2744 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2745 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2747 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2748 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2749 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2751 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2752 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2753 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2754 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2755 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2756 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2757 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2758 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2759 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2760 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2762 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2763 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2764 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2766 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2767 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2769 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2770 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2771 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2772 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2775 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2776 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2777 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2779 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2780 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2781 PH/23 above applies.
2783 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2784 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2785 (for which there is an explicit test).
2787 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2789 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2790 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2791 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2792 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2793 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2795 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2796 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2797 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2798 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2800 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2801 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2802 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2804 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2806 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2808 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2809 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2810 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2812 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2813 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2814 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2815 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2816 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2818 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2819 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2820 the message gets confusing).
2822 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2823 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2824 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2825 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2827 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2828 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2829 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2830 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2833 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2834 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2835 the different processes.
2837 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2839 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2841 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2842 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2844 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2845 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2847 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2848 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2849 messages matching specified criteria.
2851 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2853 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2854 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2856 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2857 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2858 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2859 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2860 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2861 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2862 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2863 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2864 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2865 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2867 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2868 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2869 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2871 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2873 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2874 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2875 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2876 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2877 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2878 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2879 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2882 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2883 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2885 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2887 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2889 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2891 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2892 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2893 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2894 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2895 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2896 size of the count of files.
2898 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2900 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2903 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2904 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2905 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2906 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2908 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2909 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2910 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2912 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2913 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2914 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2915 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2916 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2918 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2919 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2921 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2922 will now be deprecated.
2924 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2926 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2927 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2928 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2930 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2931 with very large, slow to parse queues
2933 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2935 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2937 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2938 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2939 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2942 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2943 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2944 Sieve code now uses this.
2946 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2947 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2949 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2950 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2952 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2954 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2955 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2956 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2957 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2958 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2960 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2961 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2962 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2963 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2965 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2967 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2969 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2970 is preferred over IPv4.
2972 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2973 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2974 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2975 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2976 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2977 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2978 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2980 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2981 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2982 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2984 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2986 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2987 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2988 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2989 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2990 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2991 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2992 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2993 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2994 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2995 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2996 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2998 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2999 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3000 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3006 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3008 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3009 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3011 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3012 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3013 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3015 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3017 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3020 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3023 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3024 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3025 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3028 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3029 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3031 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3032 inside the third argument.
3034 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3035 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3038 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3039 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3041 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3042 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3044 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3046 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3047 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3050 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3052 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3053 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3054 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3055 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3056 identical. For example:
3058 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3060 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3061 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3062 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3064 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3065 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3066 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3067 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3069 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3070 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3071 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3074 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3076 o fixes some comments
3077 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3078 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3079 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3080 and documents the missing references header update
3084 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3085 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
3088 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3089 Electronic Mail") by including:
3091 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3093 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3094 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
3095 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3096 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3097 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3099 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3101 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3103 The auto-replied keyword:
3105 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3106 message by an automatic process,
3108 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3110 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3111 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3113 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3114 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3117 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3118 to the default Received: header definition.
3120 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3122 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3123 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3124 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3126 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3127 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3128 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3130 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3131 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3132 and treats the condition as false.
3134 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3136 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3137 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3138 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3139 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3140 not changing the active code.
3142 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3143 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3145 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3146 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3148 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3151 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3152 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3153 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3154 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3155 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3156 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3157 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3158 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3159 the text comparison.
3161 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3162 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3163 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3164 The same fix has been applied.
3170 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3171 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3174 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3175 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3177 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3179 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3180 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3181 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3182 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3183 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3185 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3186 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3187 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3188 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3191 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3199 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3200 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3202 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3204 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3206 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3207 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3208 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3210 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3211 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3212 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3214 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3215 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3218 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3219 ${stat: expansion item.
3221 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3222 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3224 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3225 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3228 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3230 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3233 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3234 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3236 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3238 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3239 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3240 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3241 the end of the subprocess.
3243 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3244 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3245 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3246 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3247 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3249 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3251 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3253 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3254 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3256 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3258 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3260 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3261 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3264 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3266 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3267 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3268 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3270 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3271 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3273 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3274 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3276 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3277 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3279 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3280 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3282 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3283 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3284 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3285 contributed by a Radius user.
3287 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3288 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3290 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3291 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3293 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3296 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3297 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3300 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3301 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3302 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3303 header lines when this was not necessary.
3305 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3307 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3308 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3309 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3312 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3315 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3316 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3317 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3318 return code was incorrect.
3320 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3322 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3324 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3326 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3328 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3329 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3330 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3331 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3332 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3335 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3337 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3338 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3339 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3340 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3341 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3342 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3343 which is clearly wrong.
3345 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3347 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3348 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3349 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3352 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3353 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3355 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3357 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3358 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3360 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3361 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3363 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3364 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3366 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3367 recipients, not senders.
3369 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3370 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3372 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3374 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3376 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3377 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3378 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3379 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3381 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3383 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3384 clock is set back in time.
3386 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3387 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3389 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3390 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3392 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3393 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3396 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3397 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3400 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3403 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3405 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3406 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3407 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3409 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3410 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3411 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3412 helo verification defer as a failure.
3414 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3415 actual error message.
3421 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3423 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3424 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3425 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3426 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3428 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3430 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3431 can still be requested.
3433 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3434 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3435 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3436 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3438 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3439 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3440 circumstances, but probably never did.
3442 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3443 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3444 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3447 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3449 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3450 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
3452 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3454 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3456 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3457 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3458 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3459 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3460 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3461 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
3463 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3464 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3465 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3466 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3467 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3468 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3470 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3471 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3473 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3474 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3476 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3477 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3479 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3481 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3483 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3485 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3487 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3489 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3491 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3493 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3494 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3495 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3497 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3498 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3499 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3500 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3502 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3503 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3504 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3506 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3507 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3508 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3509 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3511 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3512 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3515 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3516 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3517 should work with maildirs and everything.
3519 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3520 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3522 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3525 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3526 function for BDB 4.3.
3528 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3530 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3531 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3534 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3535 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3536 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
3537 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3538 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3539 formatting function string_vformat().
3541 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3542 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3543 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3544 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3545 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3546 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3547 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3548 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3550 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3551 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3554 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3555 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3557 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3558 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3559 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3560 test. It is now used for both.
3562 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3563 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3564 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3565 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3566 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3567 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3569 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3570 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3571 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3574 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3575 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3576 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
3578 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3579 experimental DomainKeys support:
3581 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3582 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3583 the control was given.
3585 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3587 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3589 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3591 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3592 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3593 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3596 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
3597 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3598 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3599 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3600 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3601 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3604 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3605 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3606 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3607 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3608 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3609 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3611 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3612 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3613 do -d+all out of habit.
3615 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3616 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3619 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3620 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3621 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3622 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3623 record types that Exim uses.
3625 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3626 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3627 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3628 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3629 non-existent file that was broken.
3631 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3632 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3634 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3635 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3636 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3638 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3640 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3641 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3642 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3643 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3644 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3647 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3648 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3649 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3650 at a slight CPU cost.
3652 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3653 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3655 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3658 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3660 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3661 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3667 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3668 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3670 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
3672 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3674 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3675 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3677 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3678 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3679 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3680 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3681 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3682 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3685 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3686 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3687 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3688 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3691 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3692 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3693 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3694 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3695 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3696 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3697 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3700 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3701 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3703 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3704 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3705 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3706 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3707 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3708 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3710 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3711 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3712 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3713 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3715 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3718 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3719 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3721 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3722 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3723 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3724 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3727 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3729 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3730 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3732 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3733 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3734 to what was transported.)
3736 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3738 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3739 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3740 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3741 spamd_address settings.
3743 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3744 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3745 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3746 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3747 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3749 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3751 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3752 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3753 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3754 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3755 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3757 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3758 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3760 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3761 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3762 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3763 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3764 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3765 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3766 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3769 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3770 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3771 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3772 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3773 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3774 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3775 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3778 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3780 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3781 driver and ACL definitions.
3783 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3784 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3786 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3787 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3788 understands it better than I do:
3790 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3791 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3793 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3794 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3795 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3796 => three warnings about OTP not working
3797 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3799 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3800 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3801 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3802 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3804 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3805 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3807 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3808 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3809 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3811 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3812 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3815 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3816 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3819 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3820 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3821 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3823 warn !verify = sender
3824 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3826 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3827 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3829 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3831 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3832 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3834 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3835 nomenclature these days.)
3837 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3838 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3840 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3841 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3842 . First host does not offer TLS;
3843 . First host accepts first address;
3844 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3845 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3846 . Second host accepts second address.
3847 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3848 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3851 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3852 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3853 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3854 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3855 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3857 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3858 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3860 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3861 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3863 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3864 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3865 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3867 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3868 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3871 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3873 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3874 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3875 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3876 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3877 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3878 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3879 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3881 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3882 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3883 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3884 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3885 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3887 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3888 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3891 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3892 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3893 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3894 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3895 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3896 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3898 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3900 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3901 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3902 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3903 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3904 printable escape sequences.
3906 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3907 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3910 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3911 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3914 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3915 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3916 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3917 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3918 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3920 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3921 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3922 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3924 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3926 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3927 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3930 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3931 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3932 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3933 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3934 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3935 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3936 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3937 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3938 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3941 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3942 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3943 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3944 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3948 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3949 ----------------------------------------
3951 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3952 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3953 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3954 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3955 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3956 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3959 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3960 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3961 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3962 historical information.
3968 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3970 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3971 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3973 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3974 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3977 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3978 filter fails to execute.
3980 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3981 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3982 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3983 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3984 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3986 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3988 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3989 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3990 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3991 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3993 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3994 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3995 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3996 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3997 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3999 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4001 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4003 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4004 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4005 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4006 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4008 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4009 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4010 sender verification.
4012 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4013 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4015 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4017 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4020 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4021 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4023 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4024 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4026 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4027 information about exactly what failed.
4029 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4031 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4032 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4033 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4035 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4036 It is now set to "smtps".
4038 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4039 ignore_target_hosts.
4041 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4042 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4043 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4044 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4047 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4048 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4049 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4051 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4052 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4053 wake it up if nothing else does.
4055 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4056 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4057 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4060 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4061 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4063 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4065 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4066 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4067 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4068 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4069 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4070 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4071 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4072 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4074 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4075 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4076 than one IP address.
4078 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4079 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4080 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4081 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4083 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4084 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4085 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4086 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4087 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4090 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4091 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4092 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4093 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4095 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4096 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4099 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4100 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4101 $sender_host_address.
4103 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4104 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4105 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4106 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4107 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4110 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4112 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4113 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4115 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4116 just the host names, not the priorities.
4118 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4119 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4120 controlled by a keyword.
4122 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4123 multiple records are returned.
4125 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4126 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4129 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4131 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4132 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4134 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4135 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4136 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4138 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4140 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4142 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4144 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4145 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4146 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4147 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4148 because the tests only now provoked it.
4150 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4151 (this can affect the format of dates).
4153 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4154 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4155 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4156 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4158 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4160 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4161 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4162 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4163 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4165 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4166 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4167 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4169 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4172 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4173 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4174 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4175 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4176 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4177 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4180 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4181 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4182 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4185 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4186 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4187 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4189 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4190 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4191 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4192 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4193 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4194 so I produce this patch..."
4196 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4197 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4200 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4201 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4202 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4203 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4206 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4208 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4209 long debug lines gets shown.
4211 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4212 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4214 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4216 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4217 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4218 of $primary_hostname.
4220 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4221 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4222 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4223 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4224 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4225 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4226 by change 4.50/55 above.
4228 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4229 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4230 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4231 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4232 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4233 running as the user.
4236 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4237 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4238 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4241 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4242 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4244 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4245 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4246 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4247 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4248 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4250 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4251 This has been fixed.
4253 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4254 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4255 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4256 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4259 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4261 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4262 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4263 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4264 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4266 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4267 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4269 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4270 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4271 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4273 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4274 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4275 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4278 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4279 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4280 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4282 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4283 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4284 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4285 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4287 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4288 during host lookups.
4290 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4291 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4293 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4295 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4296 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4297 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4298 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4299 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4302 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4303 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4305 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4306 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4307 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4309 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4311 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4312 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4313 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4314 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4315 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4316 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4319 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4320 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4321 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4322 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4323 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4325 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4328 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4330 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4331 "vacation" handling.
4333 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4334 OS variants using glibc.
4336 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4339 ----------------------------------------------------
4340 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4341 ----------------------------------------------------
4347 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4348 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4351 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4352 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4355 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4356 filter fails to execute.
4358 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4359 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4360 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4361 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4362 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4364 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4365 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4366 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4367 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4369 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4370 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4371 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4372 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4373 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4375 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4377 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4378 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4379 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4380 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4382 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4383 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4384 sender verification.
4386 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4387 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4389 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4390 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4392 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4393 ignore_target_hosts.
4395 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4396 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4397 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4398 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4401 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4402 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4403 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4405 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4406 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4407 wake it up if nothing else does.
4409 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4410 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4411 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4414 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4415 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4417 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
4419 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4420 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4423 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4424 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4427 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4428 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4429 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4430 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4431 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4434 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4435 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4438 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4439 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4440 $sender_host_address.
4442 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4444 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4445 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4446 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4448 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
4451 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4452 (this can affect the format of dates).
4454 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4455 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4456 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4457 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4459 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4460 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4461 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4463 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4464 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4465 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4466 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4468 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4469 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4470 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4472 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4475 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4476 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4477 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4478 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4479 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4480 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4483 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4484 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4485 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4486 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4489 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4490 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4491 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4492 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4493 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4494 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4495 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4497 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4498 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4499 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4500 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4501 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4502 running as the user.
4505 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4506 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4507 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4510 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4511 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4512 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4513 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4514 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4516 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4517 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4518 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4519 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4522 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4523 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4524 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4525 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4526 because the tests only now provoked it.
4532 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4533 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4534 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4535 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4536 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4537 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4538 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4540 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4541 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4544 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4546 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4548 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4549 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4552 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4553 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4554 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4555 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4556 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4558 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4559 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4561 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4563 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4565 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4568 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4569 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4571 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4572 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4573 affecting debugging statements).
4575 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4577 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4578 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4579 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4580 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4581 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4582 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4583 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4584 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4585 after the received time, and all would be well.
4587 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4588 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4589 condition in an expansion string.
4591 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4593 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4594 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4595 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4596 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4597 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4598 job under whatever limits there are.
4600 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4602 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4605 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4606 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4607 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4608 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4611 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4612 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4613 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4614 binary data in such strings.
4616 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4618 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4619 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4620 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4621 failure, which is pointless.
4623 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4625 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4627 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4628 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4629 Sender: header lines.
4631 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4632 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4633 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4635 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4636 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4637 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4638 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4639 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4642 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4643 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4644 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4645 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4646 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4648 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4649 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4650 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4653 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4654 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4656 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4657 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4659 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4661 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4663 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4665 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4668 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4670 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4672 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4673 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4674 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4675 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4677 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4678 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4684 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4685 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4686 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4688 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4689 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4690 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4691 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4692 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4693 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4695 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4696 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4697 verification failure".
4699 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4700 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4701 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4702 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4704 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4705 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4706 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4707 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4708 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4709 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4710 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4711 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4712 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4713 treated as a timeout.
4715 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4716 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4717 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4718 not set for Exim filters).
4720 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4721 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4722 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4724 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4726 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4727 try to make them clearer.
4729 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4730 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4732 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4734 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4736 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4737 only the Cygwin environment.
4739 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4740 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4741 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4742 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4743 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4745 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4746 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4747 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4748 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4749 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4750 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4751 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4753 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4754 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4756 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4758 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4759 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4760 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4762 To: susanne@some.where
4764 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4765 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4766 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4767 of addresses in From: header lines).
4769 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4770 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4771 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4773 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4774 treated as non-personal.
4776 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4777 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4779 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4781 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4783 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4784 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4785 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4787 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4788 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4790 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4791 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4792 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4793 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4794 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4795 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4797 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4798 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4799 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4800 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4801 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4802 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4803 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4804 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4806 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4808 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4809 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4811 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4812 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4813 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4815 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4816 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4818 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4819 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4820 rather than long int.
4822 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4824 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4830 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4831 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4832 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4833 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4834 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4835 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4841 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4842 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4844 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4845 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4846 socklen_t is defined.
4848 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4851 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4854 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4855 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4856 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4857 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4858 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4860 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4861 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4862 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4863 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4865 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4866 of flapping under certain conditions.
4868 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4869 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4870 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4872 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4874 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4876 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4877 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4878 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4879 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4881 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4882 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4883 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4884 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4885 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4886 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4887 preserved with the message after it was received.
4889 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4890 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4891 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4892 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4893 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4894 test suite worked just fine.
4896 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4897 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4898 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4900 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4901 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4904 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4905 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4906 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4907 does not fully solve it.
4909 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4910 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4911 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4912 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4913 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4915 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4916 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4917 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4919 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4920 string, for example:
4922 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4924 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4925 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4926 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4927 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4928 the routers could not see them.
4930 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4931 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4933 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4934 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4937 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4938 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4939 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4940 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4941 that needed quoting.
4943 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4944 was not being matched caselessly.
4946 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4949 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4950 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4951 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4952 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4953 when use_sender is false.
4955 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4957 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4959 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4961 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4962 the configuration file.
4964 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4965 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4967 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4969 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4970 bytes in the message body.
4972 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4973 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4976 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4978 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4980 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4981 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4982 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4983 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4990 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4991 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4993 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4994 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4995 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4996 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4997 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4999 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5000 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5002 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5003 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5004 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5006 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5007 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5008 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5010 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5013 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5014 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5015 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5016 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5017 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5018 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5019 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5025 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5026 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5027 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5028 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5029 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5030 default (and expected) setting.
5032 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5033 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5034 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5035 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5037 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5038 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5040 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5043 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5044 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5045 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5046 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5047 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5048 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5050 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5051 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5052 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5054 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5055 part (NOT match_host).
5057 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5059 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5060 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5061 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5062 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5063 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5064 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5065 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5066 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5067 the same named file.
5069 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5070 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5073 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5074 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5075 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5076 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5079 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5080 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5081 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5083 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5085 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5087 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5089 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5090 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5092 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5093 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5094 before starting the TLS session.
5096 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5098 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5099 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5101 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5102 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5103 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5104 colon in the middle).
5110 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5111 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5112 multiple configurations are in use.
5114 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5115 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5116 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5117 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5118 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5119 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5121 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5122 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5124 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5125 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5126 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5128 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5129 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5132 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5133 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5135 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5137 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5138 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5140 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5148 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5149 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5150 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5151 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5152 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5154 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5157 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5158 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5159 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5160 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5161 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5162 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5164 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5165 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5166 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5167 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5168 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5169 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5170 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5173 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5174 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5175 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5176 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5177 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5179 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5181 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5182 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5183 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5185 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5187 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5188 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5189 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5192 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5193 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5195 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5196 Three changes have been made:
5198 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5199 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5200 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5201 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5202 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5204 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5207 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5208 the modified behaviour.
5214 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5217 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5218 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5220 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5221 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5222 try to track down a specific problem.
5224 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5225 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5226 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5228 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5231 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5232 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5233 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5234 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5235 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5236 some earlier ones do not.
5238 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5240 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5241 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5242 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5243 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5244 address literals are enabled, of course).
5246 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5248 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5249 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5250 by a command such as
5254 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5256 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5258 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5259 remained set. It is now erased.
5261 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5262 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5264 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5265 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5266 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5267 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5268 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5269 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5270 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5271 appropriate error code.
5273 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5274 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5275 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5276 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5277 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5278 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5280 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5281 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5282 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5284 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5285 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5286 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5287 terminate the header.
5289 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5290 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5291 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5293 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5294 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5295 (4.30/29). In particular:
5297 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5300 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5301 to write a maildirsize file.
5303 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5304 the transport, the new value overrides.
5306 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5309 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5310 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5311 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5314 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5315 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5316 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5319 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5320 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5321 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5323 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5324 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5327 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5328 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5329 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5331 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5333 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5335 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5337 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5338 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5341 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5342 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5343 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5344 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5345 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5346 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5347 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5350 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5351 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5352 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5353 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5354 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5357 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5358 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5359 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5360 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5361 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5362 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5363 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5364 cached value only when the same options are set.
5366 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5368 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5369 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5370 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5371 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5372 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5374 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5375 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5376 it is clearly obsolete.
5378 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5381 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5382 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5383 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5386 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5387 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5388 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5389 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5390 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5392 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5393 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5394 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5395 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5397 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5399 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5401 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5402 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5405 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5406 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5407 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5408 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5409 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5410 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5413 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5414 with the -f command-line option.
5416 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5417 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5418 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5419 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5420 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5421 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5423 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5424 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5427 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5428 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5429 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5430 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5431 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5432 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5433 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5434 buffer is too small.
5436 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5437 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5439 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5440 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5441 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5442 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5443 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5444 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5445 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5446 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5447 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5449 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5450 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5451 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5453 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5454 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5457 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5458 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5459 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5460 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5461 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5463 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5464 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5465 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5466 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5469 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5471 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5473 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5474 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5476 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5477 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5478 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5480 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5481 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5482 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5483 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5484 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5486 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5487 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5488 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5489 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5490 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5491 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5492 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5494 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5495 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5496 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5497 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5498 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5499 the test of how many are available.
5501 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5502 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5503 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5504 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5505 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5506 new message is started.
5508 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5509 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5511 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5512 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5514 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5515 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5516 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5519 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5520 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5521 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5522 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5523 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5524 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5525 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5527 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5528 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5529 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5530 interpreted as octal.
5532 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5535 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5536 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5537 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5538 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5539 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5540 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5542 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5543 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5544 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5545 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5547 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5548 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5549 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5550 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5552 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5553 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5556 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5557 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5559 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5561 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5562 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5563 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5564 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5566 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5567 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5568 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5569 supplied", which is not helpful.
5571 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5572 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5573 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5575 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5576 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5577 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5578 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5579 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5580 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5581 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5582 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5584 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5585 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5586 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5587 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5588 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5590 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5591 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5592 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5593 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5594 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5595 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5597 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5598 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5599 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5601 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
5603 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5604 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5605 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5608 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5610 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5611 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5612 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5613 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5614 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5615 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5616 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5617 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5619 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5620 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5621 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5622 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5623 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5625 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5628 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5629 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5630 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5631 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5632 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5633 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5634 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5635 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5636 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5642 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5643 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5644 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5646 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5649 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5650 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5651 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5653 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5654 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5655 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5656 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5657 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5658 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5660 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5661 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5662 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5663 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5664 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5665 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5666 the Exim test suite.
5668 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5669 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5670 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5671 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5673 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5674 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5675 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5676 specify it in this variable.
5678 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5679 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5680 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5681 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5683 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5684 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5685 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5686 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5688 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5689 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5690 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5691 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5692 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5694 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5696 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5699 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5700 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5701 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5702 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5703 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5705 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5706 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5708 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5709 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5710 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5711 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5712 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5714 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5715 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5717 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5718 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5719 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5721 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5722 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5724 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5725 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5727 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5728 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5729 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5731 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5732 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5734 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5735 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5736 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5737 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5739 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5741 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5742 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5743 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5744 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5746 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5748 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5749 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5751 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5753 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5754 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5755 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5756 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5757 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5758 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5760 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5762 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5763 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5766 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5768 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5769 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5771 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5772 550 Sender verify failed
5774 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5775 the final line of the response.
5777 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5778 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5779 all other user lookups.
5781 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5784 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5785 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5786 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5787 result into an int without checking.
5789 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5790 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5791 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5793 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5794 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5795 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5796 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5798 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5801 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5802 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5804 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5805 to the empty sender.
5807 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5808 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5809 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5810 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5811 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5812 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5813 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5816 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5817 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5818 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5819 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5822 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5823 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5825 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5828 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5829 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5831 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5833 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5834 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5837 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5838 as soon as it is encountered.
5840 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5842 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5845 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5846 recognizes a tab character.
5848 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5849 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5850 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5851 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5853 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5855 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5858 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5860 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5862 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5863 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5866 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5867 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5868 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5869 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5870 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5872 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5873 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5875 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5876 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5877 list (.included file names were always shown).
5879 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5880 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5881 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5884 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5885 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5887 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5889 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5891 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5893 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5894 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5895 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5896 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5897 failures to open the logs.
5899 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5900 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5901 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5902 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5903 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5904 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5905 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5911 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5912 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5913 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5916 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5917 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5918 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5920 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5921 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5922 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5924 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5925 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5926 causing some misleading effects.
5928 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5929 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5930 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5932 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5933 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5934 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5935 queue-runner function directly.
5941 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5944 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5945 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5946 was always written to the default place.
5948 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5949 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5950 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5952 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5954 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5956 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5957 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5958 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5960 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5961 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5964 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5965 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5966 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5968 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5969 command line option is disabled.
5971 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5972 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5974 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5976 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5978 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5979 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5981 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5983 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5984 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5985 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5986 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5987 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5988 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5990 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5991 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5994 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5995 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5997 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5998 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6000 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6001 received was valid base64.
6003 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6004 name of the variable that was being set.
6006 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6008 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6009 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6010 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6011 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6012 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6013 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6015 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6017 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6018 nor realm was specified.
6020 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6021 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6022 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6023 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6025 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6026 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6027 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6029 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6030 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6031 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6033 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6034 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6035 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6036 some systems use these upper case variants.
6038 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6039 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6040 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6041 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6043 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6045 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6046 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6048 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6049 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6052 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6054 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6055 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6056 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6057 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6059 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6062 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6063 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6064 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6066 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6067 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6069 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6070 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6071 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6072 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6074 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6075 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6076 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6078 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6080 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6081 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6082 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6083 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6086 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6087 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6088 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6090 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6092 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6093 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6095 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6096 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6098 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6099 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6100 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6101 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6102 when emails are that large.
6109 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6110 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6112 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6113 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6114 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6116 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6117 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6118 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6120 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6121 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6122 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6123 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6124 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6126 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6127 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6128 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6129 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6130 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6133 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6134 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6135 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6136 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6137 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6138 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6139 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6140 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6141 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6142 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6143 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6144 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6145 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6146 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6148 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6149 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6152 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6153 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6154 error should be diagnosed.
6156 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6157 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6158 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6159 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6160 appeared instead of "NULL".
6162 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6163 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6164 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6165 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6166 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6167 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6170 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6171 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6172 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6178 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6179 or receiver verification errors.
6181 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6184 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6185 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6186 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6187 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6189 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6190 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6191 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6192 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6193 shouldn't happen again.
6195 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6196 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6197 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6199 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6200 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6202 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6204 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6205 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6207 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6208 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6211 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6212 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6213 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6215 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6216 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6217 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6218 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6220 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6221 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6222 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6223 to define what should happen).
6225 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6226 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6227 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6229 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6231 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6233 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6234 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6236 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6237 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6238 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6239 structure in all cases.
6241 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6242 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6243 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6244 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6246 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6247 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6250 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6251 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6253 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6254 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6256 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6257 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6258 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6260 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6261 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6262 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6264 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6265 the book and for uniformity.
6267 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6269 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6270 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6271 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6272 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6273 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6274 non-existent command as the problem.
6276 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6277 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6278 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6280 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6282 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6283 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6284 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6286 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6287 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6288 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6289 timestamps using strftime().
6291 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6292 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6294 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6295 transport-time rewrites.
6297 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6298 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6299 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6300 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6302 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6303 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6305 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6306 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6307 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6308 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6311 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6312 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6313 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6314 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6315 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6316 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6317 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6319 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6320 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6321 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6322 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6323 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6325 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6326 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6327 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6328 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6329 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6330 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6331 remaining text gets split now.
6333 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6334 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6335 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6336 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6338 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6339 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6340 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6341 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6344 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6345 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6346 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6347 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6348 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6349 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6350 passed through if needed.
6352 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6353 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6354 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6355 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6356 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6357 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6359 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6360 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6361 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6362 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6363 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6365 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6366 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6367 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6368 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6369 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6371 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6372 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6375 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6376 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6377 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6378 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6379 mayhem of various kinds.
6381 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6382 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6383 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6384 the right test for positive values.
6386 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6387 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6388 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6389 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6390 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6391 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6392 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6393 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6394 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6395 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6398 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6401 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6402 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6405 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6406 the existing equality matching.
6408 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6409 dealing with inode numbers.
6411 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6412 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6413 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6415 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6416 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6417 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6418 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6421 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6422 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6423 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6424 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6425 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6426 relay addresses has also been removed.
6428 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6430 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6431 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6432 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6434 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6435 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6436 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6437 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6438 processing applies to CR:
6440 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6441 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6443 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6444 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6445 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6446 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6448 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6449 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6450 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6452 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6453 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6454 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6455 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6456 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6457 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6460 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6463 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6464 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6465 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6466 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6469 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6471 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6473 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6475 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6476 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6477 not considered personal.
6479 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6481 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6483 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6485 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6486 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6487 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6488 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6489 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6490 header lines, and spool format errors.
6492 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6493 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6494 for more flexibility.
6496 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6497 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6498 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6500 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6503 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6504 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6505 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6506 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6507 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6508 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6509 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6510 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6511 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6513 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6514 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6515 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6516 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6517 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6518 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6519 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6521 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6522 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6523 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6525 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6526 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6527 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6528 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6529 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6530 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6531 instead of killing the process with assert().
6533 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6534 than Unicode encoding.
6536 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6537 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6538 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6539 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6541 77. Added process_log_path.
6543 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6544 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6546 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6547 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6549 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6550 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6551 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6553 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6554 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6555 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6556 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6557 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6560 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6561 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6564 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6565 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6566 they will be used during message reception.
6572 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.