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3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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8 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
9 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
10 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
11 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
14 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
15 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
16 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
18 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
19 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
20 hence the _LINUX specificness.
22 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
23 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
24 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
27 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
28 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
29 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
30 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
31 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
32 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
33 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
34 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
35 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
36 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
37 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
39 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
42 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
43 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
44 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
45 ignores EPIPE as well.
47 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
48 (quoted-printable decoding).
50 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
51 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
53 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
55 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
57 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
59 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
60 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
62 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
65 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
66 miscellaneous code fixes
68 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
71 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
72 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
73 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
74 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
75 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
76 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
77 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
78 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
80 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
81 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
82 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
83 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
85 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
86 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
87 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
88 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
89 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
90 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
91 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
92 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
93 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
95 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
98 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
99 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
100 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
101 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
102 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
103 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
104 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
105 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
107 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
108 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
111 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
112 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
113 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
114 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
115 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
116 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
117 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
118 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
119 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
120 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
121 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
122 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
123 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
125 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
126 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
127 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
128 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
129 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
130 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
131 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
133 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
134 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
135 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
136 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
137 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
138 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
139 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
140 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
141 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
142 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
144 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
145 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
146 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
147 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
148 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
150 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
151 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
152 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
153 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
154 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
155 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
156 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
158 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
159 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
160 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
161 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
162 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
163 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
166 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
167 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
168 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
171 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
172 if any retry times were supplied.
174 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
175 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
176 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
178 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
180 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
182 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
183 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
184 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
185 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
186 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
189 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
190 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
192 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
193 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
194 committing the later change.]
196 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
197 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
198 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
199 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
200 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
201 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
202 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
203 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
204 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
206 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
207 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
208 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
209 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
210 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
211 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
212 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
213 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
214 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
216 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
217 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
218 hammering the server.
220 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
221 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
227 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
228 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
230 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
231 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
232 there is data to show.
233 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
235 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
236 as the number of messages in eximstats.
238 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
239 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
241 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
242 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
244 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
245 submissions from trusted users.
247 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
248 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
250 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
251 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
252 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
253 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
254 there is now a framework to start from.
256 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
257 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
258 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
260 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
262 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
264 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
266 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
267 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
268 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
270 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
273 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
274 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
275 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
277 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
278 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
279 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
282 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
283 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
284 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
285 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
286 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
288 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
289 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
291 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
293 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
294 operations in malware.c.
296 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
299 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
300 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
301 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
304 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
305 statements to "add_header".
307 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
308 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
310 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
311 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
314 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
318 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
319 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
320 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
323 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
324 don't think Precedence: ever was.
326 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
327 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
329 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
330 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
331 any possible encoding problems.
333 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
334 but not after initializing Perl.
336 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
337 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
338 apparently, which is not desirable.
340 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
343 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
346 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
348 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
349 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
350 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
351 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
353 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
354 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
355 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
357 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
358 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
359 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
362 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
363 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
364 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
365 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
366 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
372 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
373 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
375 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
378 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
379 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
380 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
381 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
382 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
383 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
384 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
385 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
388 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
390 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
391 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
392 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
394 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
395 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
396 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
399 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
400 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
402 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
403 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
404 option (which defaults to 0600).
406 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
408 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
409 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
410 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
411 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
412 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
413 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
414 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
416 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
422 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
423 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
424 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
425 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
426 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
427 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
430 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
431 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
433 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
435 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
436 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
437 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
438 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
439 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
442 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
443 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
445 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
446 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
447 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
448 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
449 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
451 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
452 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
453 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
454 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
456 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
457 be the same on different OS.
459 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
462 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
463 whether --show-vars was specified or not
465 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
468 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
469 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
470 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
471 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
472 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
473 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
476 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
477 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
478 when Exim was called.
480 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
481 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
483 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
484 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
485 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
486 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
488 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
489 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
490 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
491 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
494 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
495 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
496 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
498 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
499 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
500 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
502 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
505 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
506 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
507 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
508 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
509 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
510 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
511 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
512 values from the SRV records were lost.
514 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
515 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
516 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
518 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
519 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
520 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
522 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
523 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
524 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
525 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
526 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
527 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
528 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
529 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
530 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
531 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
533 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
534 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
535 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
537 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
538 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
540 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
541 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
542 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
543 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
546 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
547 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
548 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
550 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
551 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
554 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
555 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
556 (for which there is an explicit test).
558 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
560 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
561 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
562 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
563 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
564 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
566 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
567 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
568 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
569 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
571 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
572 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
573 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
575 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
577 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
579 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
580 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
581 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
583 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
584 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
585 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
586 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
587 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
589 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
590 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
591 the message gets confusing).
593 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
594 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
595 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
596 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
598 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
599 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
600 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
601 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
604 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
605 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
606 the different processes.
608 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
610 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
612 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
613 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
615 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
616 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
618 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
619 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
620 messages matching specified criteria.
622 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
624 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
625 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
627 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
628 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
629 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
630 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
631 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
632 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
633 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
634 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
635 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
636 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
638 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
639 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
640 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
642 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
644 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
645 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
646 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
647 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
648 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
649 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
650 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
653 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
654 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
656 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
658 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
660 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
662 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
663 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
664 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
665 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
666 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
667 size of the count of files.
669 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
671 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
674 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
675 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
676 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
677 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
679 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
680 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
681 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
683 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
684 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
685 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
686 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
687 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
689 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
690 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
692 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
693 will now be deprecated.
695 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
697 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
698 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
699 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
701 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
702 with very large, slow to parse queues
704 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
706 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
708 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
709 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
710 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
713 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
714 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
715 Sieve code now uses this.
717 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
718 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
720 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
721 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
723 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
725 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
726 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
727 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
728 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
729 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
731 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
732 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
733 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
734 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
736 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
738 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
740 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
741 is preferred over IPv4.
743 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
744 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
745 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
746 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
747 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
748 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
749 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
751 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
752 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
753 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
755 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
757 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
758 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
759 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
760 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
761 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
762 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
763 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
764 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
765 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
766 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
767 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
769 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
770 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
771 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
777 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
779 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
780 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
782 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
783 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
784 statements are most likely to be submissions.
786 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
788 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
791 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
794 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
795 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
796 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
799 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
800 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
802 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
803 inside the third argument.
805 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
806 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
809 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
810 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
812 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
813 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
815 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
817 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
818 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
821 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
823 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
824 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
825 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
826 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
827 identical. For example:
829 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
831 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
832 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
833 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
835 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
836 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
837 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
838 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
840 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
841 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
842 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
845 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
847 o fixes some comments
848 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
849 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
850 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
851 and documents the missing references header update
855 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
856 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
859 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
860 Electronic Mail") by including:
862 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
864 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
865 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
866 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
867 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
868 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
870 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
872 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
874 The auto-replied keyword:
876 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
877 message by an automatic process,
879 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
881 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
882 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
884 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
885 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
888 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
889 to the default Received: header definition.
891 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
893 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
894 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
895 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
897 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
898 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
899 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
901 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
902 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
903 and treats the condition as false.
905 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
907 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
908 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
909 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
910 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
911 not changing the active code.
913 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
914 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
916 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
917 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
919 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
922 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
923 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
924 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
925 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
926 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
927 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
928 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
929 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
932 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
933 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
934 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
935 The same fix has been applied.
941 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
942 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
945 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
946 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
948 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
950 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
951 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
952 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
953 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
954 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
956 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
957 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
958 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
959 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
962 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
970 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
971 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
973 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
975 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
977 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
978 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
979 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
981 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
982 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
983 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
985 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
986 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
989 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
990 ${stat: expansion item.
992 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
993 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
995 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
996 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
999 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1001 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1004 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1005 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1007 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1009 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1010 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1011 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1012 the end of the subprocess.
1014 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1015 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1016 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1017 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1018 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1020 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1022 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1024 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1025 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1027 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1029 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1031 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1032 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1035 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1037 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1038 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1039 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1041 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1042 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1044 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1045 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1047 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1048 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1050 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1051 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1053 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1054 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1055 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1056 contributed by a Radius user.
1058 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1059 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1061 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1062 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1064 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1067 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1068 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1071 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1072 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1073 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1074 header lines when this was not necessary.
1076 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1078 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1079 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1080 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1083 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1086 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1087 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1088 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1089 return code was incorrect.
1091 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1093 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1095 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1097 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1099 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1100 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1101 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1102 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1103 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1106 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1108 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1109 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1110 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1111 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1112 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1113 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1114 which is clearly wrong.
1116 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1118 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1119 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1120 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1123 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1124 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1126 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1128 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1129 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1131 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1132 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1134 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1135 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1137 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1138 recipients, not senders.
1140 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1141 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1143 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1145 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1147 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1148 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1149 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1150 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1152 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1154 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1155 clock is set back in time.
1157 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1158 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1160 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1161 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1163 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1164 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1167 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1168 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1171 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1174 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1176 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1177 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1178 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1180 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1181 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1182 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1183 helo verification defer as a failure.
1185 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1186 actual error message.
1192 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1194 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1195 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1196 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1197 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1199 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1201 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1202 can still be requested.
1204 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1205 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1206 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1207 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1209 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1210 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1211 circumstances, but probably never did.
1213 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1214 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1215 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1218 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1220 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1221 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
1223 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1225 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1227 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1228 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1229 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1230 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1231 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1232 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
1234 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1235 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1236 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1237 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1238 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1239 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1241 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1242 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1244 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1245 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1247 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1248 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1250 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1252 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1254 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1256 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1258 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1260 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1262 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1264 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1265 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1266 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1268 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1269 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1270 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1271 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1273 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1274 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1275 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1277 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1278 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1279 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1280 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1282 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1283 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1286 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1287 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1288 should work with maildirs and everything.
1290 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1291 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1293 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1296 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1297 function for BDB 4.3.
1299 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1301 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1302 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1305 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1306 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1307 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
1308 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1309 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1310 formatting function string_vformat().
1312 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1313 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1314 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1315 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1316 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1317 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1318 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1319 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1321 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1322 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1325 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1326 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1328 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1329 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1330 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1331 test. It is now used for both.
1333 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1334 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1335 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1336 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1337 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1338 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1340 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1341 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1342 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1345 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1346 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1347 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
1349 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1350 experimental DomainKeys support:
1352 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1353 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1354 the control was given.
1356 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1358 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1360 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1362 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1363 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1364 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1367 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
1368 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1369 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1370 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1371 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1372 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1375 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1376 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1377 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1378 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1379 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1380 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1382 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1383 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1384 do -d+all out of habit.
1386 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1387 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1390 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1391 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1392 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1393 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1394 record types that Exim uses.
1396 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1397 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1398 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1399 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1400 non-existent file that was broken.
1402 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1403 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1405 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1406 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1407 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1409 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1411 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1412 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1413 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1414 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1415 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1418 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1419 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1420 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1421 at a slight CPU cost.
1423 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1424 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1426 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1429 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1431 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1432 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1438 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1439 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1441 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1443 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1445 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1446 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1448 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1449 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1450 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1451 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1452 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1453 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1456 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1457 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1458 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1459 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1462 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1463 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1464 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1465 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1466 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1467 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1468 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
1471 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1472 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1474 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1475 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1476 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1477 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1478 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1479 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1481 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1482 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1483 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1484 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1486 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1489 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1490 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
1492 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1493 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
1494 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1495 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1498 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1500 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1501 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1503 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1504 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1505 to what was transported.)
1507 TF/01 Added $received_time.
1509 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1510 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1511 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1512 spamd_address settings.
1514 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1515 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1516 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1517 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1518 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1520 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1522 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1523 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1524 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1525 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1526 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1528 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1529 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1531 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1532 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1533 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1534 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1535 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1536 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1537 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1540 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1541 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1542 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1543 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1544 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1545 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1546 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1549 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1551 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1552 driver and ACL definitions.
1554 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1555 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1557 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1558 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1559 understands it better than I do:
1561 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1562 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1564 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1565 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1566 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1567 => three warnings about OTP not working
1568 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1570 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1571 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1572 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1573 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1575 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1576 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1578 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1579 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1580 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1582 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1583 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1586 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1587 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1590 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1591 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1592 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1594 warn !verify = sender
1595 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1597 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1598 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1600 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1602 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1603 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1605 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1606 nomenclature these days.)
1608 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1609 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1611 PH/30 In these circumstances:
1612 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1613 . First host does not offer TLS;
1614 . First host accepts first address;
1615 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1616 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1617 . Second host accepts second address.
1618 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1619 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1622 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1623 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1624 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1625 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1626 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1628 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1629 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1631 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1632 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
1634 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1635 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1636 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1638 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1639 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1642 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1644 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1645 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1646 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1647 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1648 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1649 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1650 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1652 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1653 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1654 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1655 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1656 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1658 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1659 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1662 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1663 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1664 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1665 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1666 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1667 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1669 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1671 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1672 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1673 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1674 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1675 printable escape sequences.
1677 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1678 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1681 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1682 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1685 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1686 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1687 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1688 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1689 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1691 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1692 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1693 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1695 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1697 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1698 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1701 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1702 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1703 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1704 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1705 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1706 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1707 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1708 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1709 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1712 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1713 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1714 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1715 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1719 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1720 ----------------------------------------
1722 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1723 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1724 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1725 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1726 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1727 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1730 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
1731 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1732 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1733 historical information.
1739 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1741 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
1742 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
1744 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1745 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1748 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1749 filter fails to execute.
1751 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1752 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1753 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1754 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1755 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1757 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1759 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1760 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1761 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1762 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1764 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1765 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1766 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1767 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1768 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1770 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1772 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1774 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1775 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1776 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1777 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1779 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1780 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1781 sender verification.
1783 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1784 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1786 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1788 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1791 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1792 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1794 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1795 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1797 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1798 information about exactly what failed.
1800 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1802 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1803 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1804 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1806 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1807 It is now set to "smtps".
1809 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1810 ignore_target_hosts.
1812 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1813 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1814 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1815 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1818 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1819 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1820 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1822 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1823 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1824 wake it up if nothing else does.
1826 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1827 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1828 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1831 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1832 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1834 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1836 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1837 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1838 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1839 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1840 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1841 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1842 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1843 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1845 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1846 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1847 than one IP address.
1849 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1850 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1851 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1852 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1854 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1855 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1856 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1857 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1858 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1861 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1862 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
1863 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
1864 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
1866 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1867 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1870 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1871 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1872 $sender_host_address.
1874 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
1875 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
1876 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
1877 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
1878 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
1881 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
1883 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
1884 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
1886 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
1887 just the host names, not the priorities.
1889 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
1890 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
1891 controlled by a keyword.
1893 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
1894 multiple records are returned.
1896 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
1897 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
1900 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
1902 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
1903 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
1905 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1906 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1907 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1909 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
1911 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
1913 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
1915 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1916 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1917 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1918 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1919 because the tests only now provoked it.
1921 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1922 (this can affect the format of dates).
1924 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1925 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1926 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1927 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1929 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
1931 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1932 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1933 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1934 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1936 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1937 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1938 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1940 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1943 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1944 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1945 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1946 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1947 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1948 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1951 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
1952 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
1953 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
1956 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
1957 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
1958 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
1960 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
1961 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
1962 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
1963 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
1964 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
1965 so I produce this patch..."
1967 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
1968 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
1971 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1972 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1973 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1974 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1977 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
1979 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
1980 long debug lines gets shown.
1982 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
1983 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
1985 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
1987 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
1988 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
1989 of $primary_hostname.
1991 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1992 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1993 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1994 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1995 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1996 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1997 by change 4.50/55 above.
1999 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2000 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2001 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2002 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2003 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2004 running as the user.
2007 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2008 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2009 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
2012 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2013 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2015 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2016 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2017 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2018 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2019 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2021 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2022 This has been fixed.
2024 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2025 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2026 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2027 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2030 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2032 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2033 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2034 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2035 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2037 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2038 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2040 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2041 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2042 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2044 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2045 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2046 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2049 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2050 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2051 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2053 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2054 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2055 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2056 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2058 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2059 during host lookups.
2061 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2062 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2064 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2066 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2067 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2068 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2069 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2070 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2073 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2074 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2076 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2077 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2078 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2080 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2082 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2083 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2084 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2085 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2086 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2087 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2090 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2091 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2092 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2093 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2094 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2096 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2099 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2101 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2102 "vacation" handling.
2104 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2105 OS variants using glibc.
2107 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2110 ----------------------------------------------------
2111 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2112 ----------------------------------------------------
2118 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2119 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2122 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2123 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2126 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2127 filter fails to execute.
2129 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2130 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2131 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2132 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2133 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2135 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2136 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2137 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2138 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2140 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2141 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2142 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2143 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2144 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2146 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2148 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2149 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2150 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2151 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2153 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2154 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2155 sender verification.
2157 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2158 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2160 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2161 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2163 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2164 ignore_target_hosts.
2166 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2167 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2168 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2169 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2172 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2173 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2174 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2176 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2177 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2178 wake it up if nothing else does.
2180 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2181 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2182 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2185 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2186 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2188 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
2190 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2191 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2194 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2195 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2198 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2199 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2200 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2201 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2202 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2205 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2206 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2209 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2210 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2211 $sender_host_address.
2213 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2215 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2216 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2217 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2219 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
2222 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2223 (this can affect the format of dates).
2225 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2226 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2227 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2228 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2230 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2231 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2232 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2234 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2235 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2236 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2237 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2239 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2240 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2241 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2243 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2246 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2247 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2248 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2249 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2250 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2251 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2254 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2255 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2256 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2257 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2260 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2261 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2262 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2263 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2264 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2265 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2266 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2268 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2269 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2270 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2271 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2272 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2273 running as the user.
2276 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2277 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2278 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
2281 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2282 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2283 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2284 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2285 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2287 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2288 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2289 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2290 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2293 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2294 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2295 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2296 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2297 because the tests only now provoked it.
2303 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2304 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2305 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2306 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2307 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2308 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2309 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2311 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2312 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2315 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2317 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2319 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2320 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2323 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2324 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2325 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2326 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2327 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2329 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2330 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2332 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2334 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2336 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2339 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2340 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2342 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2343 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2344 affecting debugging statements).
2346 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2348 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2349 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2350 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2351 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2352 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2353 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2354 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2355 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2356 after the received time, and all would be well.
2358 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2359 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2360 condition in an expansion string.
2362 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2364 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2365 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2366 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2367 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2368 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2369 job under whatever limits there are.
2371 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2373 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2376 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2377 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2378 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2379 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2382 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2383 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2384 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2385 binary data in such strings.
2387 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2389 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2390 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2391 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2392 failure, which is pointless.
2394 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2396 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2398 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2399 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2400 Sender: header lines.
2402 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2403 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2404 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2406 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2407 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2408 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2409 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2410 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2413 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2414 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2415 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2416 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2417 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2419 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2420 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2421 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2424 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2425 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2427 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2428 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2430 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2432 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2434 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2436 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2439 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2441 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2443 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2444 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2445 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2446 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2448 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2449 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2455 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2456 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2457 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2459 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2460 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2461 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2462 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2463 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2464 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2466 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2467 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2468 verification failure".
2470 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2471 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2472 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2473 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2475 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2476 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2477 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2478 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2479 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2480 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2481 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2482 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2483 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2484 treated as a timeout.
2486 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2487 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2488 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2489 not set for Exim filters).
2491 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2492 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2493 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2495 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2497 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2498 try to make them clearer.
2500 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2501 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2503 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2505 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2507 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2508 only the Cygwin environment.
2510 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2511 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2512 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2513 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2514 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2516 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2517 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2518 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2519 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2520 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2521 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2522 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2524 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2525 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2527 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2529 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2530 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2531 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2533 To: susanne@some.where
2535 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2536 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2537 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2538 of addresses in From: header lines).
2540 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2541 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2542 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2544 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2545 treated as non-personal.
2547 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2548 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2550 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2552 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2554 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2555 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2556 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2558 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2559 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2561 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2562 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2563 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2564 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2565 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2566 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2568 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2569 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2570 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2571 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2572 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2573 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2574 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2575 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2577 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2579 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2580 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2582 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2583 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2584 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2586 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2587 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2589 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2590 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2591 rather than long int.
2593 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2595 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2601 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2602 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2603 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2604 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2605 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2606 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2612 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2613 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2615 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2616 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2617 socklen_t is defined.
2619 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2622 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2625 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2626 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2627 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2628 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2629 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2631 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2632 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2633 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2634 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2636 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2637 of flapping under certain conditions.
2639 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2640 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2641 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2643 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2645 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2647 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2648 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2649 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2650 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2652 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2653 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2654 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2655 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2656 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2657 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2658 preserved with the message after it was received.
2660 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2661 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2662 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2663 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2664 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2665 test suite worked just fine.
2667 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2668 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2669 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2671 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2672 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2675 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2676 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2677 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2678 does not fully solve it.
2680 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2681 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2682 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2683 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2684 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2686 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2687 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2688 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2690 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2691 string, for example:
2693 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2695 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2696 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2697 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2698 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2699 the routers could not see them.
2701 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2702 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2704 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2705 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2708 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2709 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2710 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2711 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2712 that needed quoting.
2714 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2715 was not being matched caselessly.
2717 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2720 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2721 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2722 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2723 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2724 when use_sender is false.
2726 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2728 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2730 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2732 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2733 the configuration file.
2735 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2736 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2738 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2740 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2741 bytes in the message body.
2743 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2744 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2747 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2749 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2751 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2752 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2753 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2754 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2761 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2762 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2764 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2765 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2766 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2767 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2768 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2770 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2771 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2773 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2774 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2775 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2777 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2778 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2779 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2781 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2784 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2785 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2786 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2787 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2788 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2789 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2790 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2796 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2797 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2798 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2799 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2800 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2801 default (and expected) setting.
2803 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2804 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2805 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2806 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2808 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2809 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2811 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2814 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2815 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2816 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2817 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2818 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2819 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2821 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2822 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2823 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2825 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2826 part (NOT match_host).
2828 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2830 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2831 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2832 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2833 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2834 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2835 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2836 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2837 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2838 the same named file.
2840 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2841 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2844 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2845 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2846 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2847 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2850 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2851 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2852 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2854 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2856 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2858 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2860 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2861 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2863 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
2864 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
2865 before starting the TLS session.
2867 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
2869 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
2870 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
2872 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
2873 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
2874 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
2875 colon in the middle).
2881 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
2882 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
2883 multiple configurations are in use.
2885 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
2886 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
2887 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
2888 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
2889 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
2890 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
2892 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
2893 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
2895 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
2896 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
2897 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
2899 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
2900 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
2903 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
2904 that used bh_ and bheader_.
2906 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
2908 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
2909 allowing one more file than it should have been.
2911 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
2919 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
2920 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
2921 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
2922 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
2923 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
2925 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
2928 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
2929 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
2930 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
2931 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
2932 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
2933 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
2935 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
2936 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
2937 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
2938 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
2939 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
2940 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
2941 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
2944 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
2945 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
2946 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
2947 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
2948 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
2950 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
2952 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
2953 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
2954 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
2956 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
2958 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
2959 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
2960 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
2963 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
2964 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
2966 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
2967 Three changes have been made:
2969 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
2970 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
2971 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
2972 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
2973 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
2975 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
2978 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
2979 the modified behaviour.
2985 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
2988 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
2989 indeed breaks things for older releases.
2991 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
2992 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
2993 try to track down a specific problem.
2995 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
2996 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
2997 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
2999 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3002 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3003 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3004 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3005 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3006 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3007 some earlier ones do not.
3009 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3011 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3012 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3013 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3014 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3015 address literals are enabled, of course).
3017 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3019 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3020 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3021 by a command such as
3025 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3027 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3029 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3030 remained set. It is now erased.
3032 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3033 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3035 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3036 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3037 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3038 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3039 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3040 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3041 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3042 appropriate error code.
3044 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3045 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3046 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3047 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3048 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3049 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3051 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3052 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3053 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3055 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3056 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3057 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3058 terminate the header.
3060 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3061 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3062 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3064 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3065 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3066 (4.30/29). In particular:
3068 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3071 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3072 to write a maildirsize file.
3074 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3075 the transport, the new value overrides.
3077 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3080 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3081 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3082 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3085 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3086 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3087 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3090 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3091 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3092 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3094 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3095 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3098 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3099 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3100 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3102 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3104 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3106 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3108 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3109 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3112 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3113 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3114 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3115 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3116 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3117 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3118 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3121 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3122 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3123 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3124 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3125 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3128 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3129 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3130 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3131 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3132 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3133 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3134 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3135 cached value only when the same options are set.
3137 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3139 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3140 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3141 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3142 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3143 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3145 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3146 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3147 it is clearly obsolete.
3149 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3152 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3153 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3154 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3157 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3158 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3159 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3160 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3161 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3163 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3164 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3165 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3166 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3168 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3170 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3172 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3173 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3176 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3177 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3178 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3179 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3180 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3181 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3184 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3185 with the -f command-line option.
3187 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
3188 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
3189 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
3190 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
3191 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
3192 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3194 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
3195 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
3198 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
3199 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
3200 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
3201 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
3202 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
3203 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
3204 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
3205 buffer is too small.
3207 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
3208 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
3210 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
3211 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
3212 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
3213 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
3214 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
3215 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
3216 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
3217 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
3218 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
3220 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
3221 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
3222 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
3224 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
3225 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
3228 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
3229 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
3230 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
3231 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
3232 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
3234 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
3235 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
3236 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
3237 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
3240 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
3242 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
3244 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
3245 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
3247 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
3248 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
3249 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
3251 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
3252 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
3253 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
3254 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
3255 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
3257 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
3258 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
3259 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
3260 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
3261 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
3262 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
3263 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
3265 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
3266 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
3267 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
3268 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
3269 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
3270 the test of how many are available.
3272 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
3273 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
3274 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
3275 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
3276 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
3277 new message is started.
3279 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
3280 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
3282 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
3283 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
3285 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
3286 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
3287 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
3290 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
3291 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
3292 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
3293 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
3294 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
3295 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
3296 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
3298 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
3299 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
3300 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
3301 interpreted as octal.
3303 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
3306 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
3307 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
3308 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
3309 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
3310 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
3311 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
3313 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
3314 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
3315 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
3316 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
3318 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
3319 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3320 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3321 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3323 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3324 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3327 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3328 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3330 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3332 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3333 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3334 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3335 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3337 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3338 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3339 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3340 supplied", which is not helpful.
3342 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3343 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3344 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3346 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3347 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3348 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3349 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3350 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3351 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3352 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3353 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3355 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3356 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3357 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3358 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3359 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3361 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3362 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3363 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3364 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3365 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3366 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3368 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3369 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3370 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3372 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
3374 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3375 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3376 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3379 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3381 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3382 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3383 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3384 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3385 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3386 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3387 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3388 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3390 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3391 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3392 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3393 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3394 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3396 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3399 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3400 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3401 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3402 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3403 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3404 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3405 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3406 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3407 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3413 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3414 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3415 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3417 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3420 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3421 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3422 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3424 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3425 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3426 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3427 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3428 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3429 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3431 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3432 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3433 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3434 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3435 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3436 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3437 the Exim test suite.
3439 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3440 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3441 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3442 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3444 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3445 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3446 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3447 specify it in this variable.
3449 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3450 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3451 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3452 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3454 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3455 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3456 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3457 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3459 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3460 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3461 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
3462 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
3463 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
3465 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
3467 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
3470 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3471 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3472 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3473 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3474 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3476 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3477 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3479 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3480 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3481 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3482 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3483 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3485 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3486 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3488 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3489 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3490 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3492 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3493 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3495 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3496 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3498 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3499 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3500 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3502 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3503 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3505 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3506 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3507 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3508 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3510 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3512 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3513 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3514 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3515 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3517 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3519 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3520 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3522 25. Added .include_if_exists.
3524 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3525 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3526 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
3527 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
3528 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
3529 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3531 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3533 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3534 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3537 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3539 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3540 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3542 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3543 550 Sender verify failed
3545 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3546 the final line of the response.
3548 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3549 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3550 all other user lookups.
3552 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3555 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3556 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3557 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3558 result into an int without checking.
3560 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3561 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3562 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3564 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3565 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3566 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3567 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3569 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3572 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3573 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3575 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3576 to the empty sender.
3578 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3579 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3580 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3581 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3582 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3583 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3584 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3587 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3588 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3589 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3590 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3593 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3594 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3596 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3599 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3600 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3602 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3604 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3605 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3608 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3609 as soon as it is encountered.
3611 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3613 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3616 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3617 recognizes a tab character.
3619 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3620 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3621 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3622 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3624 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3626 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3629 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3631 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3633 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3634 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3637 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3638 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3639 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3640 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3641 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3643 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3644 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3646 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3647 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3648 list (.included file names were always shown).
3650 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3651 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3652 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3655 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3656 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3658 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3660 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3662 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3664 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3665 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3666 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3667 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3668 failures to open the logs.
3670 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3671 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3672 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3673 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3674 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3675 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3676 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3682 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3683 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3684 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3687 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3688 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3689 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3691 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3692 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3693 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3695 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3696 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3697 causing some misleading effects.
3699 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3700 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3701 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3703 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3704 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3705 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3706 queue-runner function directly.
3712 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3715 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3716 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3717 was always written to the default place.
3719 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3720 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3721 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3723 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3725 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3727 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3728 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3729 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3731 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3732 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3735 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3736 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3737 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3739 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3740 command line option is disabled.
3742 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3743 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3745 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3747 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3749 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3750 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3752 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3754 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3755 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3756 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3757 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3758 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3759 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3761 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3762 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3765 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3766 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3768 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3769 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3771 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3772 received was valid base64.
3774 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3775 name of the variable that was being set.
3777 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3779 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3780 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3781 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3782 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3783 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3784 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3786 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3788 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3789 nor realm was specified.
3791 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3792 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3793 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3794 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3796 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3797 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3798 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3800 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3801 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3802 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3804 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3805 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3806 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3807 some systems use these upper case variants.
3809 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3810 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3811 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3812 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3814 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3816 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3817 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3819 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3820 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3823 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3825 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3826 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3827 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3828 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3830 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3833 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3834 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3835 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3837 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3838 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3840 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3841 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3842 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3843 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3845 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3846 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3847 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3849 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3851 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3852 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3853 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3854 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3857 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3858 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3859 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3861 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
3863 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
3864 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
3866 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
3867 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
3869 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
3870 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
3871 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
3872 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
3873 when emails are that large.
3880 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
3881 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
3883 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
3884 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
3885 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
3887 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
3888 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
3889 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
3891 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
3892 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
3893 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
3894 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
3895 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
3897 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
3898 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
3899 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
3900 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
3901 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
3904 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
3905 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
3906 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
3907 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
3908 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
3909 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
3910 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
3911 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
3912 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
3913 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
3914 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
3915 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
3916 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
3917 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
3919 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
3920 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
3923 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
3924 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
3925 error should be diagnosed.
3927 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
3928 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
3929 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
3930 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
3931 appeared instead of "NULL".
3933 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
3934 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
3935 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
3936 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
3937 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
3938 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
3941 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
3942 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
3943 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
3949 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
3950 or receiver verification errors.
3952 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
3955 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
3956 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
3957 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
3958 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
3960 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
3961 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
3962 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
3963 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
3964 shouldn't happen again.
3966 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
3967 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
3968 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
3970 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
3971 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
3973 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
3975 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
3976 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
3978 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
3979 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
3982 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
3983 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
3984 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
3986 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
3987 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
3988 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
3989 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
3991 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
3992 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
3993 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
3994 to define what should happen).
3996 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
3997 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
3998 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4000 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4002 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4004 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4005 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4007 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4008 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4009 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4010 structure in all cases.
4012 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4013 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4014 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4015 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4017 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4018 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4021 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4022 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4024 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4025 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4027 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4028 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4029 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4031 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4032 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4033 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4035 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4036 the book and for uniformity.
4038 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4040 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4041 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4042 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4043 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4044 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4045 non-existent command as the problem.
4047 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4048 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4049 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4051 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4053 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4054 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4055 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4057 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4058 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4059 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4060 timestamps using strftime().
4062 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4063 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4065 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4066 transport-time rewrites.
4068 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4069 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4070 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4071 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4073 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4074 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4076 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4077 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4078 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4079 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4082 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4083 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4084 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4085 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4086 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4087 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4088 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4090 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4091 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4092 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4093 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4094 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4096 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4097 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4098 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4099 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4100 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4101 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4102 remaining text gets split now.
4104 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4105 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4106 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4107 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4109 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4110 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4111 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4112 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4115 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4116 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4117 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4118 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4119 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4120 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4121 passed through if needed.
4123 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4124 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4125 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4126 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4127 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4128 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4130 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4131 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4132 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4133 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4134 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4136 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4137 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4138 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4139 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4140 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4142 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
4143 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
4146 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
4147 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
4148 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
4149 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
4150 mayhem of various kinds.
4152 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
4153 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4154 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
4155 the right test for positive values.
4157 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
4158 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
4159 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
4160 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
4161 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
4162 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
4163 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
4164 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
4165 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
4166 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
4169 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
4172 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
4173 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
4176 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
4177 the existing equality matching.
4179 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
4180 dealing with inode numbers.
4182 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
4183 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
4184 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
4186 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
4187 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
4188 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
4189 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
4192 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
4193 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
4194 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
4195 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
4196 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
4197 relay addresses has also been removed.
4199 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
4201 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
4202 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
4203 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
4205 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
4206 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
4207 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
4208 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
4209 processing applies to CR:
4211 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
4212 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
4214 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
4215 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
4216 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
4217 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
4219 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
4220 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
4221 This is a VOB (very old bug).
4223 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
4224 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
4225 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
4226 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
4227 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
4228 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
4231 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
4234 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
4235 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
4236 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
4237 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
4240 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4242 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
4244 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
4246 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
4247 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
4248 not considered personal.
4250 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
4252 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
4254 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
4256 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
4257 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
4258 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
4259 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
4260 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
4261 header lines, and spool format errors.
4263 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
4264 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
4265 for more flexibility.
4267 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
4268 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
4269 consulting and updating the callout cache.
4271 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
4274 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
4275 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
4276 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
4277 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
4278 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
4279 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
4280 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
4281 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
4282 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
4284 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
4285 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
4286 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
4287 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
4288 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
4289 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
4290 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
4292 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
4293 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
4294 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
4296 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
4297 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
4298 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
4299 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
4300 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
4301 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
4302 instead of killing the process with assert().
4304 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
4305 than Unicode encoding.
4307 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
4308 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
4309 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
4310 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
4312 77. Added process_log_path.
4314 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
4315 check_log_inodes was ignored.
4317 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
4318 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
4320 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
4321 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
4322 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
4324 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
4325 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
4326 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
4327 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
4328 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
4331 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
4332 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
4335 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
4336 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
4337 they will be used during message reception.
4343 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
git://git.exim.org / users / heiko / exim.git / blob