1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.296 2006/02/14 10:26:26 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
10 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
11 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
12 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
13 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
14 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
17 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
18 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
20 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
22 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
23 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
24 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
25 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
26 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
29 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
30 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
32 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
33 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
34 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
35 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
36 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
38 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
39 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
40 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
41 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
43 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
44 be the same on different OS.
46 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
49 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
50 whether --show-vars was specified or not
52 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
55 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
56 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
57 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
58 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
59 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
60 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
63 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
64 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
67 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
68 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
70 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
71 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
72 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
73 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
75 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
76 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
77 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
78 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
81 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
82 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
83 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
85 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
86 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
87 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
89 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
92 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
93 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
94 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
95 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
96 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
97 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
98 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
99 values from the SRV records were lost.
101 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
102 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
103 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
105 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
106 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
107 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
109 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
110 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
111 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
112 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
113 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
114 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
115 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
116 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
117 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
119 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
120 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
121 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
123 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
124 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
126 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
127 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
128 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
129 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
132 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
133 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
134 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
136 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
137 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
140 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
141 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
142 (for which there is an explicit test).
144 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
146 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
147 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
148 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
149 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
150 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
152 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
153 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
154 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
155 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
161 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
163 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
164 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
166 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
167 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
168 statements are most likely to be submissions.
170 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
172 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
175 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
178 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
179 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
180 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
183 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
184 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
186 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
187 inside the third argument.
189 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
190 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
193 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
194 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
196 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
197 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
199 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
201 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
202 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
205 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
207 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
208 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
209 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
210 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
211 identical. For example:
213 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
215 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
216 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
217 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
219 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
220 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
221 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
222 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
224 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
225 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
226 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
229 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
231 o fixes some comments
232 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
233 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
234 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
235 and documents the missing references header update
239 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
240 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
243 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
244 Electronic Mail") by including:
246 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
248 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
249 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
250 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
251 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
252 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
254 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
256 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
258 The auto-replied keyword:
260 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
261 message by an automatic process,
263 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
265 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
266 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
268 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
269 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
272 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
273 to the default Received: header definition.
275 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
277 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
278 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
279 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
281 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
282 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
283 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
285 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
286 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
287 and treats the condition as false.
289 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
291 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
292 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
293 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
294 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
295 not changing the active code.
297 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
298 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
300 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
301 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
303 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
306 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
307 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
308 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
309 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
310 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
311 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
312 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
313 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
316 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
317 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
318 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
319 The same fix has been applied.
325 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
326 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
329 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
330 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
332 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
334 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
335 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
336 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
337 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
338 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
340 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
341 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
342 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
343 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
346 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
354 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
355 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
357 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
359 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
361 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
362 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
363 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
365 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
366 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
367 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
369 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
370 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
373 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
374 ${stat: expansion item.
376 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
377 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
379 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
380 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
383 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
385 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
388 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
389 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
391 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
393 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
394 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
395 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
396 the end of the subprocess.
398 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
399 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
400 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
401 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
402 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
404 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
406 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
408 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
409 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
411 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
413 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
415 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
416 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
419 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
421 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
422 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
423 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
425 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
426 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
428 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
429 host errors such as "Connection refused".
431 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
432 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
434 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
435 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
437 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
438 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
439 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
440 contributed by a Radius user.
442 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
443 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
445 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
446 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
448 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
451 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
452 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
455 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
456 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
457 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
458 header lines when this was not necessary.
460 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
462 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
463 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
464 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
467 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
470 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
471 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
472 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
473 return code was incorrect.
475 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
477 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
479 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
481 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
483 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
484 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
485 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
486 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
487 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
490 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
492 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
493 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
494 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
495 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
496 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
497 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
498 which is clearly wrong.
500 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
502 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
503 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
504 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
507 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
508 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
510 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
512 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
513 the "build-* directories that it finds.
515 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
516 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
518 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
519 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
521 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
522 recipients, not senders.
524 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
525 the ratelimit ACL was added.
527 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
529 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
531 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
532 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
533 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
534 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
536 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
538 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
539 clock is set back in time.
541 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
542 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
544 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
545 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
547 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
548 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
551 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
552 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
555 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
558 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
560 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
561 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
562 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
564 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
565 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
566 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
567 helo verification defer as a failure.
569 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
570 actual error message.
576 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
578 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
579 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
580 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
581 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
583 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
585 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
586 can still be requested.
588 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
589 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
590 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
591 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
593 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
594 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
595 circumstances, but probably never did.
597 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
598 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
599 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
602 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
604 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
605 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
607 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
609 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
611 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
612 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
613 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
614 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
615 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
616 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
618 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
619 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
620 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
621 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
622 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
623 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
625 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
626 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
628 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
629 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
631 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
632 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
634 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
636 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
638 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
640 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
642 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
644 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
646 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
648 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
649 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
650 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
652 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
653 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
654 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
655 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
657 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
658 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
659 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
661 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
662 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
663 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
664 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
666 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
667 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
670 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
671 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
672 should work with maildirs and everything.
674 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
675 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
677 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
680 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
681 function for BDB 4.3.
683 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
685 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
686 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
689 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
690 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
691 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
692 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
693 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
694 formatting function string_vformat().
696 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
697 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
698 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
699 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
700 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
701 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
702 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
703 falls back to the previous guessing code."
705 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
706 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
709 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
710 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
712 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
713 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
714 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
715 test. It is now used for both.
717 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
718 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
719 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
720 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
721 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
722 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
724 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
725 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
726 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
729 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
730 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
731 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
733 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
734 experimental DomainKeys support:
736 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
737 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
738 the control was given.
740 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
742 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
744 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
746 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
747 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
748 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
751 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
752 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
753 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
754 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
755 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
756 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
759 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
760 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
761 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
762 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
763 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
764 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
766 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
767 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
768 do -d+all out of habit.
770 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
771 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
774 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
775 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
776 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
777 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
778 record types that Exim uses.
780 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
781 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
782 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
783 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
784 non-existent file that was broken.
786 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
787 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
789 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
790 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
791 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
793 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
795 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
796 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
797 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
798 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
799 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
802 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
803 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
804 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
805 at a slight CPU cost.
807 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
808 as requested by Marc Sherman.
810 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
813 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
815 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
816 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
822 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
823 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
825 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
827 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
829 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
830 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
832 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
833 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
834 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
835 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
836 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
837 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
840 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
841 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
842 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
843 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
846 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
847 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
848 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
849 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
850 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
851 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
852 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
855 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
856 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
858 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
859 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
860 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
861 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
862 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
863 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
865 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
866 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
867 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
868 SMTP commands that take arguments.
870 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
873 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
874 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
876 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
877 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
878 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
879 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
882 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
884 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
885 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
887 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
888 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
889 to what was transported.)
891 TF/01 Added $received_time.
893 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
894 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
895 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
896 spamd_address settings.
898 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
899 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
900 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
901 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
902 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
904 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
906 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
907 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
908 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
909 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
910 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
912 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
913 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
915 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
916 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
917 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
918 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
919 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
920 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
921 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
924 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
925 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
926 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
927 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
928 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
929 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
930 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
933 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
935 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
936 driver and ACL definitions.
938 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
939 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
941 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
942 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
943 understands it better than I do:
945 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
946 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
948 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
949 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
950 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
951 => three warnings about OTP not working
952 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
954 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
955 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
956 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
957 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
959 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
960 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
962 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
963 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
964 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
966 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
967 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
970 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
971 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
974 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
975 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
976 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
978 warn !verify = sender
979 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
981 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
982 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
984 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
986 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
987 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
989 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
990 nomenclature these days.)
992 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
993 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
995 PH/30 In these circumstances:
996 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
997 . First host does not offer TLS;
998 . First host accepts first address;
999 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1000 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1001 . Second host accepts second address.
1002 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1003 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1006 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1007 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1008 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1009 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1010 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1012 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1013 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1015 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1016 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
1018 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1019 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1020 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1022 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1023 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1026 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1028 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1029 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1030 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1031 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1032 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1033 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1034 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1036 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1037 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1038 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1039 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1040 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1042 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1043 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1046 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1047 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1048 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1049 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1050 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1051 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1053 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1055 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1056 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1057 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1058 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1059 printable escape sequences.
1061 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1062 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1065 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1066 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1069 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1070 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1071 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1072 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1073 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1075 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1076 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1077 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1079 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1081 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1082 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1085 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1086 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1087 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1088 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1089 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1090 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1091 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1092 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1093 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1096 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1097 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1098 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1099 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1103 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1104 ----------------------------------------
1106 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1107 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1108 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1109 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1110 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1111 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1114 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
1115 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1116 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1117 historical information.
1123 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1125 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
1126 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
1128 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1129 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1132 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1133 filter fails to execute.
1135 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1136 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1137 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1138 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1139 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1141 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1143 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1144 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1145 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1146 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1148 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1149 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1150 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1151 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1152 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1154 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1156 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1158 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1159 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1160 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1161 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1163 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1164 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1165 sender verification.
1167 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1168 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1170 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1172 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1175 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1176 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1178 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1179 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1181 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1182 information about exactly what failed.
1184 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1186 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1187 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1188 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1190 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1191 It is now set to "smtps".
1193 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1194 ignore_target_hosts.
1196 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1197 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1198 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1199 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1202 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1203 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1204 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1206 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1207 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1208 wake it up if nothing else does.
1210 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1211 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1212 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1215 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1216 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1218 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1220 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1221 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1222 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1223 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1224 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1225 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1226 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1227 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1229 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1230 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1231 than one IP address.
1233 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1234 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1235 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1236 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1238 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1239 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1240 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1241 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1242 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1245 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1246 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
1247 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
1248 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
1250 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1251 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1254 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1255 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1256 $sender_host_address.
1258 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
1259 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
1260 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
1261 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
1262 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
1265 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
1267 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
1268 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
1270 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
1271 just the host names, not the priorities.
1273 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
1274 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
1275 controlled by a keyword.
1277 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
1278 multiple records are returned.
1280 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
1281 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
1284 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
1286 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
1287 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
1289 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1290 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1291 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1293 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
1295 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
1297 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
1299 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1300 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1301 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1302 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1303 because the tests only now provoked it.
1305 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1306 (this can affect the format of dates).
1308 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1309 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1310 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1311 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1313 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
1315 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1316 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1317 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1318 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1320 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1321 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1322 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1324 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1327 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1328 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1329 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1330 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1331 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1332 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1335 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
1336 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
1337 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
1340 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
1341 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
1342 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
1344 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
1345 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
1346 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
1347 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
1348 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
1349 so I produce this patch..."
1351 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
1352 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
1355 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1356 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1357 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1358 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1361 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
1363 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
1364 long debug lines gets shown.
1366 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
1367 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
1369 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
1371 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
1372 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
1373 of $primary_hostname.
1375 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1376 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1377 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1378 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1379 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1380 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1381 by change 4.50/55 above.
1383 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1384 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1385 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1386 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1387 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1388 running as the user.
1391 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1392 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1393 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1396 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
1397 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
1399 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1400 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1401 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1402 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1403 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1405 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
1406 This has been fixed.
1408 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1409 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1410 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1411 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1414 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
1416 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
1417 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
1418 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
1419 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
1421 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
1422 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
1424 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
1425 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
1426 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
1428 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
1429 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
1430 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
1433 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
1434 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
1435 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
1437 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
1438 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1439 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1440 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1442 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1443 during host lookups.
1445 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1446 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1448 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1450 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1451 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1452 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1453 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1454 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1457 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1458 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1460 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1461 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1462 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1464 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1466 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1467 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1468 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1469 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1470 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1471 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1474 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1475 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1476 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1477 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1478 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1480 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1483 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1485 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1486 "vacation" handling.
1488 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1489 OS variants using glibc.
1491 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1494 ----------------------------------------------------
1495 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1496 ----------------------------------------------------
1502 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1503 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1506 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1507 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1510 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1511 filter fails to execute.
1513 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1514 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1515 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1516 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1517 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1519 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1520 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1521 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1522 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1524 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1525 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1526 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1527 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1528 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1530 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1532 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1533 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1534 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1535 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1537 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1538 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1539 sender verification.
1541 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1542 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1544 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1545 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1547 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1548 ignore_target_hosts.
1550 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1551 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1552 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1553 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1556 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1557 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1558 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1560 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1561 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1562 wake it up if nothing else does.
1564 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1565 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1566 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1569 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1570 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1572 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
1574 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1575 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1578 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1579 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1582 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1583 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1584 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1585 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1586 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1589 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1590 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1593 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1594 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1595 $sender_host_address.
1597 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1599 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1600 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1601 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1603 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
1606 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1607 (this can affect the format of dates).
1609 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1610 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1611 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1612 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1614 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1615 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1616 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1618 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1619 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1620 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1621 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1623 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1624 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1625 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1627 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1630 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1631 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1632 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1633 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1634 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1635 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1638 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1639 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1640 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1641 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1644 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1645 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1646 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1647 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1648 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1649 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1650 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1652 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1653 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1654 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1655 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1656 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1657 running as the user.
1660 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1661 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1662 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1665 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1666 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1667 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1668 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1669 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1671 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1672 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1673 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1674 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1677 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1678 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1679 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1680 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1681 because the tests only now provoked it.
1687 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1688 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1689 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1690 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1691 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1692 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1693 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1695 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1696 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1699 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1701 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1703 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1704 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1707 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1708 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1709 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1710 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1711 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1713 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1714 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1716 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1718 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1720 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1723 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1724 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1726 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1727 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1728 affecting debugging statements).
1730 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1732 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1733 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1734 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1735 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1736 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1737 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1738 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1739 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1740 after the received time, and all would be well.
1742 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1743 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1744 condition in an expansion string.
1746 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1748 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1749 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1750 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1751 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1752 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1753 job under whatever limits there are.
1755 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1757 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1760 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1761 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1762 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1763 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1766 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1767 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1768 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1769 binary data in such strings.
1771 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1773 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1774 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1775 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1776 failure, which is pointless.
1778 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1780 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1782 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1783 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1784 Sender: header lines.
1786 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1787 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1788 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1790 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1791 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1792 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1793 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1794 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1797 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1798 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1799 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1800 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1801 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1803 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1804 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1805 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1808 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1809 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1811 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1812 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1814 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1816 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1818 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1820 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1823 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1825 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1827 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1828 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1829 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1830 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1832 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1833 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1839 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1840 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1841 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1843 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1844 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1845 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1846 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1847 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1848 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1850 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1851 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1852 verification failure".
1854 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1855 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1856 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1857 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1859 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1860 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1861 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1862 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1863 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1864 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1865 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1866 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1867 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1868 treated as a timeout.
1870 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1871 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1872 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1873 not set for Exim filters).
1875 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1876 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1877 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1879 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1881 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1882 try to make them clearer.
1884 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1885 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1887 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1889 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1891 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1892 only the Cygwin environment.
1894 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1895 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1896 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1897 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1898 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1900 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1901 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1902 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1903 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1904 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1905 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1906 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1908 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1909 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1911 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1913 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1914 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1915 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1917 To: susanne@some.where
1919 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1920 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1921 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1922 of addresses in From: header lines).
1924 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1925 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1926 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1928 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1929 treated as non-personal.
1931 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1932 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1934 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1936 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1938 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1939 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1940 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1942 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1943 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1945 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1946 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1947 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1948 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1949 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1950 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1952 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1953 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1954 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1955 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1956 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1957 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1958 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1959 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1961 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1963 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1964 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1966 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1967 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1968 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1970 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1971 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1973 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1974 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1975 rather than long int.
1977 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1979 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1985 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1986 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1987 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1988 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1989 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1990 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1996 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1997 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1999 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2000 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2001 socklen_t is defined.
2003 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2006 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2009 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2010 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2011 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2012 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2013 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2015 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2016 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2017 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2018 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2020 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2021 of flapping under certain conditions.
2023 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2024 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2025 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2027 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2029 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2031 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2032 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2033 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2034 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2036 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2037 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2038 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2039 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2040 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2041 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2042 preserved with the message after it was received.
2044 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2045 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2046 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2047 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2048 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2049 test suite worked just fine.
2051 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2052 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2053 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2055 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2056 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2059 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2060 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2061 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2062 does not fully solve it.
2064 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2065 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2066 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2067 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2068 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2070 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2071 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2072 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2074 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2075 string, for example:
2077 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2079 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2080 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2081 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2082 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2083 the routers could not see them.
2085 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2086 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2088 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2089 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2092 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2093 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2094 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2095 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2096 that needed quoting.
2098 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2099 was not being matched caselessly.
2101 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2104 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2105 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2106 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2107 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2108 when use_sender is false.
2110 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2112 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2114 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2116 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2117 the configuration file.
2119 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2120 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2122 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2124 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2125 bytes in the message body.
2127 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2128 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2131 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2133 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2135 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2136 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2137 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2138 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2145 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2146 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2148 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2149 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2150 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2151 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2152 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2154 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2155 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2157 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2158 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2159 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2161 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2162 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2163 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2165 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2168 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2169 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2170 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2171 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2172 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2173 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2174 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2180 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2181 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2182 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2183 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2184 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2185 default (and expected) setting.
2187 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2188 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2189 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2190 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2192 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2193 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2195 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2198 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2199 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2200 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2201 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2202 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2203 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2205 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2206 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2207 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2209 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2210 part (NOT match_host).
2212 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2214 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2215 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2216 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2217 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2218 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2219 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2220 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2221 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2222 the same named file.
2224 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2225 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2228 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2229 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2230 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2231 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2234 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2235 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2236 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2238 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2240 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2242 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2244 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2245 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2247 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
2248 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
2249 before starting the TLS session.
2251 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
2253 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
2254 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
2256 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
2257 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
2258 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
2259 colon in the middle).
2265 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
2266 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
2267 multiple configurations are in use.
2269 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
2270 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
2271 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
2272 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
2273 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
2274 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
2276 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
2277 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
2279 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
2280 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
2281 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
2283 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
2284 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
2287 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
2288 that used bh_ and bheader_.
2290 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
2292 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
2293 allowing one more file than it should have been.
2295 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
2303 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
2304 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
2305 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
2306 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
2307 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
2309 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
2312 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
2313 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
2314 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
2315 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
2316 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
2317 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
2319 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
2320 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
2321 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
2322 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
2323 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
2324 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
2325 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
2328 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
2329 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
2330 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
2331 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
2332 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
2334 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
2336 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
2337 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
2338 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
2340 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
2342 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
2343 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
2344 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
2347 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
2348 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
2350 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
2351 Three changes have been made:
2353 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
2354 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
2355 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
2356 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
2357 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
2359 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
2362 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
2363 the modified behaviour.
2369 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
2372 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
2373 indeed breaks things for older releases.
2375 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
2376 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
2377 try to track down a specific problem.
2379 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
2380 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
2381 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
2383 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
2386 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
2387 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
2388 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
2389 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
2390 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
2391 some earlier ones do not.
2393 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
2395 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
2396 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
2397 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2398 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
2399 address literals are enabled, of course).
2401 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
2403 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
2404 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
2405 by a command such as
2409 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
2411 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
2413 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
2414 remained set. It is now erased.
2416 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
2417 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
2419 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
2420 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
2421 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
2422 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
2423 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
2424 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
2425 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
2426 appropriate error code.
2428 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
2429 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
2430 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
2431 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
2432 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
2433 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
2435 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
2436 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
2437 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2439 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2440 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2441 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2442 terminate the header.
2444 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2445 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2446 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2448 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2449 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2450 (4.30/29). In particular:
2452 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2455 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2456 to write a maildirsize file.
2458 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2459 the transport, the new value overrides.
2461 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2464 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2465 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2466 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2469 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2470 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2471 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2474 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2475 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2476 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2478 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2479 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2482 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2483 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2484 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2486 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2488 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2490 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2492 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2493 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2496 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2497 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2498 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2499 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2500 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2501 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2502 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2505 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2506 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2507 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2508 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2509 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2512 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2513 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2514 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2515 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2516 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2517 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2518 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2519 cached value only when the same options are set.
2521 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2523 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2524 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2525 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2526 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2527 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2529 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2530 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2531 it is clearly obsolete.
2533 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2536 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2537 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2538 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2541 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2542 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2543 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2544 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2545 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2547 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2548 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2549 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2550 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2552 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2554 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2556 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2557 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2560 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2561 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2562 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2563 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2564 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2565 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2568 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2569 with the -f command-line option.
2571 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2572 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2573 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2574 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2575 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2576 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2578 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2579 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2582 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2583 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2584 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2585 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2586 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2587 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2588 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2589 buffer is too small.
2591 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2592 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2594 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2595 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2596 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2597 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2598 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2599 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2600 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2601 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2602 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2604 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2605 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2606 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2608 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2609 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2612 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2613 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2614 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2615 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2616 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2618 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2619 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2620 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2621 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2624 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2626 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2628 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2629 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2631 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2632 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2633 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2635 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2636 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2637 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2638 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2639 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2641 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2642 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2643 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2644 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2645 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2646 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2647 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2649 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2650 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2651 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2652 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2653 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2654 the test of how many are available.
2656 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2657 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2658 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2659 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2660 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2661 new message is started.
2663 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2664 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2666 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2667 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2669 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2670 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2671 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2674 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2675 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2676 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2677 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2678 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2679 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2680 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2682 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2683 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2684 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2685 interpreted as octal.
2687 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2690 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2691 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2692 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2693 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2694 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2695 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2697 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2698 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2699 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2700 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2702 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2703 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2704 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2705 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2707 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2708 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2711 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2712 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2714 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2716 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2717 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2718 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2719 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2721 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2722 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2723 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2724 supplied", which is not helpful.
2726 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2727 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2728 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2730 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2731 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2732 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2733 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2734 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2735 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2736 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2737 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2739 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2740 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2741 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2742 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2743 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2745 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2746 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2747 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2748 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2749 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2750 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2752 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2753 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2754 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2756 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2758 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2759 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2760 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2763 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2765 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2766 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2767 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2768 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2769 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2770 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2771 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2772 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2774 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2775 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2776 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2777 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2778 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2780 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2783 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2784 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2785 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2786 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2787 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2788 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2789 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2790 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2791 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2797 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2798 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2799 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2801 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2804 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2805 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2806 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2808 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2809 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2810 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2811 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2812 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2813 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2815 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2816 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2817 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2818 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2819 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2820 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2821 the Exim test suite.
2823 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2824 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2825 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2826 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2828 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2829 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2830 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2831 specify it in this variable.
2833 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2834 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2835 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2836 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2838 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2839 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2840 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2841 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2843 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2844 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2845 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2846 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2847 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2849 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2851 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2854 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2855 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2856 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2857 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2858 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2860 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2861 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2863 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2864 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2865 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2866 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2867 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2869 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2870 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2872 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2873 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2874 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2876 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2877 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2879 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2880 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2882 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2883 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2884 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2886 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2887 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2889 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2890 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2891 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2892 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2894 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2896 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2897 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2898 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2899 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2901 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2903 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2904 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2906 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2908 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2909 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2910 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2911 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2912 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2913 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2915 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2917 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2918 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2921 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2923 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2924 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2926 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2927 550 Sender verify failed
2929 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2930 the final line of the response.
2932 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2933 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2934 all other user lookups.
2936 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2939 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2940 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2941 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2942 result into an int without checking.
2944 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2945 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2946 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2948 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2949 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2950 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2951 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2953 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2956 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2957 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2959 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2960 to the empty sender.
2962 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2963 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2964 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2965 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2966 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2967 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2968 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2971 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2972 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2973 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2974 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2977 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2978 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2980 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2983 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2984 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2986 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2988 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2989 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2992 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2993 as soon as it is encountered.
2995 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2997 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3000 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3001 recognizes a tab character.
3003 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3004 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3005 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3006 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3008 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3010 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3013 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3015 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3017 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3018 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3021 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3022 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3023 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3024 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3025 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3027 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3028 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3030 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3031 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3032 list (.included file names were always shown).
3034 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3035 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3036 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3039 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3040 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3042 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3044 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3046 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3048 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3049 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3050 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3051 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3052 failures to open the logs.
3054 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3055 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3056 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3057 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3058 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3059 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3060 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3066 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3067 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3068 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3071 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3072 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3073 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3075 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3076 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3077 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3079 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3080 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3081 causing some misleading effects.
3083 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3084 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3085 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3087 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3088 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3089 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3090 queue-runner function directly.
3096 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3099 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3100 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3101 was always written to the default place.
3103 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3104 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3105 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3107 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3109 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3111 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3112 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3113 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3115 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3116 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3119 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3120 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3121 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3123 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3124 command line option is disabled.
3126 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3127 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3129 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3131 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3133 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3134 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3136 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3138 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3139 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3140 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3141 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3142 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3143 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3145 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3146 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3149 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3150 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3152 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3153 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3155 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3156 received was valid base64.
3158 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3159 name of the variable that was being set.
3161 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3163 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3164 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3165 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3166 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3167 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3168 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3170 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3172 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3173 nor realm was specified.
3175 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3176 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3177 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3178 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3180 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3181 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3182 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3184 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3185 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3186 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3188 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3189 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3190 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3191 some systems use these upper case variants.
3193 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3194 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3195 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3196 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3198 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3200 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3201 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3203 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3204 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3207 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3209 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3210 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3211 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3212 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3214 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3217 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3218 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3219 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3221 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3222 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3224 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3225 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3226 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3227 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3229 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3230 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3231 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3233 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3235 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3236 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3237 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3238 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3241 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3242 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3243 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3245 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
3247 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
3248 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
3250 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
3251 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
3253 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
3254 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
3255 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
3256 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
3257 when emails are that large.
3264 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
3265 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
3267 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
3268 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
3269 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
3271 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
3272 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
3273 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
3275 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
3276 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
3277 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
3278 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
3279 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
3281 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
3282 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
3283 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
3284 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
3285 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
3288 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
3289 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
3290 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
3291 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
3292 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
3293 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
3294 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
3295 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
3296 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
3297 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
3298 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
3299 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
3300 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
3301 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
3303 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
3304 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
3307 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
3308 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
3309 error should be diagnosed.
3311 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
3312 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
3313 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
3314 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
3315 appeared instead of "NULL".
3317 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
3318 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
3319 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
3320 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
3321 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
3322 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
3325 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
3326 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
3327 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
3333 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
3334 or receiver verification errors.
3336 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
3339 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
3340 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
3341 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
3342 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
3344 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
3345 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
3346 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
3347 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
3348 shouldn't happen again.
3350 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
3351 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
3352 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
3354 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
3355 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
3357 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
3359 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
3360 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
3362 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
3363 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
3366 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
3367 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
3368 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
3370 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
3371 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
3372 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
3373 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
3375 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
3376 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
3377 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
3378 to define what should happen).
3380 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
3381 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
3382 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
3384 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
3386 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
3388 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
3389 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
3391 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
3392 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
3393 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
3394 structure in all cases.
3396 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
3397 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
3398 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
3399 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
3401 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
3402 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
3405 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
3406 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
3408 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
3409 MD5 (which is deprecated).
3411 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
3412 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
3413 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
3415 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
3416 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
3417 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
3419 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
3420 the book and for uniformity.
3422 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
3424 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
3425 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
3426 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
3427 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
3428 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
3429 non-existent command as the problem.
3431 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
3432 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
3433 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
3435 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
3437 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
3438 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3439 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3441 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3442 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3443 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3444 timestamps using strftime().
3446 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3447 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3449 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3450 transport-time rewrites.
3452 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3453 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3454 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3455 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3457 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3458 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3460 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3461 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3462 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3463 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3466 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3467 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3468 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3469 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3470 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3471 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3472 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3474 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3475 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3476 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3477 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3478 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3480 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3481 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3482 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3483 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3484 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3485 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3486 remaining text gets split now.
3488 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3489 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3490 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3491 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3493 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3494 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3495 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3496 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3499 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3500 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3501 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3502 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3503 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3504 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3505 passed through if needed.
3507 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3508 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3509 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3510 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3511 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3512 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3514 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3515 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3516 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3517 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3518 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3520 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3521 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3522 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3523 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3524 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3526 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3527 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3530 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3531 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3532 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3533 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3534 mayhem of various kinds.
3536 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3537 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3538 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3539 the right test for positive values.
3541 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3542 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3543 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3544 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3545 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3546 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3547 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3548 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3549 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3550 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3553 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3556 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3557 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3560 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3561 the existing equality matching.
3563 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3564 dealing with inode numbers.
3566 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3567 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3568 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3570 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3571 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3572 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3573 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3576 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3577 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3578 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3579 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3580 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3581 relay addresses has also been removed.
3583 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3585 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3586 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3587 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3589 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3590 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3591 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3592 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3593 processing applies to CR:
3595 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3596 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3598 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3599 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3600 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3601 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3603 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3604 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3605 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3607 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3608 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3609 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3610 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3611 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3612 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3615 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3618 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3619 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3620 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3621 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3624 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3626 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3628 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3630 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3631 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3632 not considered personal.
3634 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3636 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3638 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3640 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3641 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3642 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3643 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3644 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3645 header lines, and spool format errors.
3647 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3648 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3649 for more flexibility.
3651 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3652 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3653 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3655 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3658 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3659 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3660 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3661 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3662 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3663 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3664 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3665 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3666 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3668 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3669 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3670 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3671 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3672 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3673 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3674 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3676 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3677 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3678 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3680 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3681 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3682 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3683 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3684 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3685 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3686 instead of killing the process with assert().
3688 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3689 than Unicode encoding.
3691 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3692 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3693 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3694 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3696 77. Added process_log_path.
3698 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3699 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3701 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3702 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3704 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3705 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3706 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3708 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3709 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3710 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3711 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3712 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3715 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3716 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3719 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3720 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3721 they will be used during message reception.
3727 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.