1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
9 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
12 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
15 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
19 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
21 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
27 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
34 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
36 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
38 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
41 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
45 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
47 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
49 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
51 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
53 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
54 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
56 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
58 PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
60 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
61 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
63 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
64 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
67 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
69 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
71 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
72 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
74 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
77 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
78 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
80 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
81 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
83 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
86 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
89 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
92 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
94 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
95 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
96 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
97 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
99 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
101 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
102 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
103 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
104 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
107 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
108 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
109 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
111 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
112 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
113 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
114 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
116 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
117 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
118 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
119 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
120 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
121 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
122 delivery, as in LMTP.
124 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
125 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
127 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
129 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
133 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
134 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
135 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
136 username as equal to the username.
138 This change corrects that bug.
140 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
141 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
142 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
144 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
146 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
147 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
148 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
149 NULL dereference and crash.
151 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
153 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
154 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
155 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
157 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
159 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
160 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
161 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
162 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
163 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
164 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
165 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
166 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
167 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
168 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
169 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
175 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
177 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
183 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
184 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
185 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
187 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
189 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
192 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
194 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
196 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
198 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
199 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
201 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
202 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
204 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
205 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
207 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
208 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
209 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
211 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
213 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
214 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
216 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
218 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
220 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
221 non-compliant senders.
222 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
224 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
225 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
226 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
228 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
229 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
230 in spool file corruption.
232 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
233 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
234 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
237 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
238 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
239 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
241 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
242 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
244 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
246 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
248 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
250 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
251 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
252 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
254 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
255 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
256 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
257 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
259 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
260 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
262 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
263 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
264 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
265 resolver implementation change.
267 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
268 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
270 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
272 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
274 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
275 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
277 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
278 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
280 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
281 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
283 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
284 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
285 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
286 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
287 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
289 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
291 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
292 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
293 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
295 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
297 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
298 read-only, out of scope).
299 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
301 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
302 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
303 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
304 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
306 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
308 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
309 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
310 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
311 real issues in debug logging.
313 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
314 assignment on my part. Fixed.
316 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
317 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
318 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
320 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
321 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
322 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
325 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
326 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
328 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
329 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
330 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
331 needs to override this, it can.
333 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
334 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
335 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
337 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
338 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
339 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
340 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
342 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
348 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
349 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
351 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
353 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
356 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
357 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
359 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
360 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
361 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
363 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
364 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
365 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
366 not safe for signals.
368 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
369 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
370 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
371 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
374 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
376 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
377 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
378 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
379 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
380 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
382 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
383 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
384 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
385 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
386 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
387 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
389 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
390 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
391 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
392 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
394 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
395 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
396 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
397 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
399 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
400 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
401 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
402 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
403 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
404 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
405 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
406 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
407 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
409 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
410 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
411 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
412 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
414 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
415 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
416 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
417 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
418 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
419 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
420 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
421 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
422 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
423 details in the main documentation.
425 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
427 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
429 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
430 repository when doing development or release builds.
432 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
433 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
435 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
436 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
439 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
441 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
442 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
444 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
445 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
447 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
448 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
450 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
451 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
453 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
454 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
456 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
458 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
461 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
462 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
463 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
465 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
467 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
469 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
470 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
476 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
478 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
479 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
481 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
483 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
485 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
488 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
489 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
491 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
492 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
494 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
497 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
500 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
501 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
503 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
504 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
505 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
506 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
508 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
509 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
515 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
518 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
519 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
520 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
522 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
523 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
525 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
526 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
527 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
529 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
530 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
532 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
533 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
535 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
536 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
538 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
539 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
541 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
542 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
544 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
547 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
548 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
550 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
551 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
553 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
554 SQL string expansion failure details.
555 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
557 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
558 Patch from Simon Arlott.
560 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
561 extern declarations in function scope.
562 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
564 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
565 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
566 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
569 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
570 Patch from Mark Zealey.
572 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
573 Patch from Mark Zealey.
575 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
576 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
578 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
579 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
581 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
582 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
585 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
587 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
589 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
590 Patch by Simon Arlott
592 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
593 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
599 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
600 consequences so log it to the panic log.
602 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
603 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
605 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
607 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
608 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
609 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
611 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
612 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
613 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
615 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
616 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
617 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
618 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
620 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
621 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
622 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
623 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
625 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
626 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
627 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
630 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
633 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
634 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
635 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
636 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
637 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
643 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
644 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
645 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
647 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
648 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
650 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
652 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
654 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
656 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
658 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
660 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
661 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
662 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
663 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
665 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
666 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
667 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
668 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
669 more caution in buffer sizes.
671 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
673 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
675 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
677 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
679 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
681 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
683 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
685 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
686 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
687 ignore trailing whitespace.
689 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
691 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
694 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
695 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
697 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
698 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
699 Notification from John Horne.
701 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
704 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
705 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
708 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
711 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
712 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
713 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
715 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
716 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
717 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
720 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
721 option (effectively making it always true).
723 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
724 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
726 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
727 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
729 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
730 run-time user, instead of root.
732 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
733 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
735 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
736 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
739 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
740 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
741 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
743 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
745 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
751 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
752 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
755 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
756 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
759 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
760 Patch from Alain Williams
762 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
764 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
765 Patch from Andreas Metzler
767 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
768 Patch from Kirill Miazine
770 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
772 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
774 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
775 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
777 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
779 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
781 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
782 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
783 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
785 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
786 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
788 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
789 Patch by Simon Arlott
791 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
792 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
798 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
800 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
802 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
804 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
806 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
812 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
813 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
815 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
816 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
819 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
820 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
821 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
823 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
824 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
826 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
827 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
828 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
829 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
831 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
832 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
833 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
835 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
837 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
839 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
840 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
842 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
844 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
845 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
846 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
847 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
849 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
850 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
852 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
854 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
856 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
857 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
859 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
860 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
862 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
863 that they are available at delivery time.
865 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
867 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
868 incoming_port log selectors.
870 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
871 setting expands to an empty string.
873 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
874 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
876 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
877 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
879 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
880 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
882 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
883 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
885 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
886 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
888 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
889 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
891 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
893 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
894 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
896 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
897 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
899 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
901 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
902 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
904 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
906 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
908 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
911 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
912 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
914 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
915 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
917 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
918 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
920 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
921 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
923 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
924 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
926 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
927 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
929 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
930 plus update to original patch.
932 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
934 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
935 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
937 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
939 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
941 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
943 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
945 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
946 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
948 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
949 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
951 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
952 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
954 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
955 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
957 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
959 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
961 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
963 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
969 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
970 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
971 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
973 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
974 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
975 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
976 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
977 build errors in sieve.c.
979 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
980 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
981 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
983 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
985 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
987 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
989 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
995 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
997 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
998 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
999 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1000 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1001 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1002 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1003 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1004 for iplsearch lookups.
1006 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1007 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1008 previously such lookups could never work.
1010 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1011 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1012 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1014 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1017 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1018 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1019 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1020 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1021 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1022 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1024 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1025 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1027 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1028 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1029 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1030 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1031 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1032 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1034 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1037 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1039 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1040 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1043 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1044 by clients under certain conditions.
1046 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1047 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1049 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1051 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1052 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1054 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1056 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1058 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1060 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1061 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1063 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1065 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1066 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1068 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1070 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1072 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1073 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1074 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1075 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1077 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1078 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1079 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1081 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1082 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1084 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1086 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1088 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1090 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1091 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1092 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1098 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1099 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1102 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1103 issue a MAIL command.
1105 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1107 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1109 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1110 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1111 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1112 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1113 item. This has been fixed.
1115 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1116 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1118 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1119 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1121 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1122 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1123 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1125 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1127 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1128 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1129 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1130 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1131 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1133 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1134 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1135 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1137 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1138 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1139 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1140 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1142 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1144 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1146 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1147 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1148 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1149 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1150 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1152 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1154 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1155 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1156 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1159 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1161 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1163 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1165 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1167 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1169 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1170 no_callout_flush is set.
1172 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1173 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1174 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1177 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1179 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1180 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1181 other ACL rejections are.
1183 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1184 with slight modification.
1186 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1187 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1189 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1190 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1193 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1194 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1196 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1198 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1199 expansion side effects.
1201 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1202 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1203 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1206 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1207 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1208 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1210 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1211 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1212 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1213 were accidentally chopped off.
1215 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1216 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1217 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1218 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1219 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1220 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1221 pipelining has not been advertised.
1223 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1225 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1226 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1227 This has been fixed.
1229 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1230 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1231 reported on Solaris.
1233 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1234 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1235 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1236 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1237 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1238 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1239 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1241 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1244 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1246 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1248 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1249 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1250 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1251 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1252 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1253 criteria to be more general.
1255 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1256 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1257 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1258 host_all_ignored option.
1260 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1261 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1262 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1263 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1264 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1265 is what is supposed to happen).
1267 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1268 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1269 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1270 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1271 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1274 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1275 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1276 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1277 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1278 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1279 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1282 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1284 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1285 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1287 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1288 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1290 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1292 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1294 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1295 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1296 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1297 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1298 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1299 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1300 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1301 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1302 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1303 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1304 least in a lot of common cases.
1306 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1307 advertised in response to EHLO.
1313 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1314 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1316 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1317 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1319 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1320 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1321 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1323 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1324 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1325 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1326 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1327 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1333 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1334 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1337 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1338 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1339 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1341 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1342 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1343 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1344 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1345 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1346 rather than extend the field.
1352 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1353 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1354 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1355 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1358 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1359 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1360 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1362 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1363 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1364 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1366 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1367 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1368 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1371 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1372 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1373 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1374 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1375 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1376 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1377 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1378 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1379 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1380 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1381 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1383 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1386 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1387 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1388 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1389 ignores EPIPE as well.
1391 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1392 (quoted-printable decoding).
1394 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1395 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1397 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1399 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1401 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1403 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1404 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1406 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1409 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1410 miscellaneous code fixes
1412 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1415 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1416 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1417 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1418 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1419 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1420 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1421 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1422 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1424 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1425 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1426 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1427 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1429 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1430 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1431 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1432 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1433 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1434 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1435 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1436 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1437 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1439 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1442 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1443 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1444 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1445 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1446 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1447 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1448 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1449 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1451 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1452 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1455 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1456 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1457 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1458 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1459 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1460 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1461 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1462 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1463 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1464 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1465 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1466 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1467 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1469 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1470 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1471 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1472 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1473 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1474 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1475 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1477 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1478 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1479 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1480 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1481 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1482 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1483 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1484 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1485 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1486 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1488 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1489 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1490 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1491 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1492 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1494 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1495 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1496 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1497 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1498 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1499 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1500 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1502 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1503 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1504 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1505 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1506 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1507 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1510 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1511 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1512 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1515 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1516 if any retry times were supplied.
1518 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1519 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1520 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1522 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1524 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1526 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1527 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1528 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1529 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1530 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1531 before) are ignored.
1533 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1534 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1536 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1537 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1538 committing the later change.]
1540 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1541 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1542 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1543 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1544 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1545 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1546 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1547 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1548 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1550 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1551 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1552 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1553 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1554 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1555 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1556 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1557 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1558 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1560 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1561 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1562 hammering the server.
1564 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1565 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1567 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1569 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1570 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1571 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1573 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1574 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1575 one case where this was not true.
1577 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1578 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1579 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1580 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1583 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1584 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1585 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1586 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1587 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1588 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1589 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1590 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1591 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1594 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1595 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1596 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1597 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1599 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1600 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1602 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1603 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1604 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1606 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1608 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1610 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1612 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1613 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1614 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1615 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1617 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1618 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1620 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1621 be meaningful with "accept".
1623 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1624 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1626 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1627 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1628 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1630 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1631 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1632 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1633 there is data to show.
1634 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1636 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1637 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1638 as well as the number of messages.
1640 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1641 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1642 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1644 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1645 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1646 have a flag are now skipped.
1648 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1649 Added the -emptyok flag.
1651 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1652 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1654 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1655 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1656 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1658 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1661 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1662 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1664 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1666 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1667 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1669 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1671 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1672 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1673 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1674 contravention of the specifications.
1676 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1677 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1678 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1680 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1681 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1682 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1684 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1686 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1687 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1688 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1689 some point in the past.
1691 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1692 transport during callout processing was broken.
1694 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1695 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1697 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1698 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1700 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1701 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1703 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1709 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1710 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1712 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1713 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1714 there is data to show.
1715 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1717 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1718 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1720 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1721 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1723 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1724 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1726 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1727 submissions from trusted users.
1729 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1730 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1732 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1733 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1734 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1735 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1736 there is now a framework to start from.
1738 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1739 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1740 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1742 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1744 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1746 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1748 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1749 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1750 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1752 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1755 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1756 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1757 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1759 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1760 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1761 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1764 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1765 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1766 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1767 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1768 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1770 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1771 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1773 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1775 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1776 operations in malware.c.
1778 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1781 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1782 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1783 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1786 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1787 statements to "add_header".
1789 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1790 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1792 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1793 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1796 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1800 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1801 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1802 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1805 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1806 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1808 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1809 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1811 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1812 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1813 any possible encoding problems.
1815 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1816 but not after initializing Perl.
1818 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1819 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1820 apparently, which is not desirable.
1822 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1825 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1828 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1830 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1831 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1832 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1833 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1835 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1836 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1837 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1839 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1840 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1841 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1844 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1845 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1846 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1847 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1848 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1854 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1855 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1857 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1860 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1861 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1862 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1863 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1864 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1865 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1866 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1867 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1870 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1872 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1873 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1874 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1876 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1877 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1878 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1881 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1882 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1884 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1885 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1886 option (which defaults to 0600).
1888 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1890 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1891 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1892 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1893 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1894 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1895 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1896 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1898 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1904 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1905 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1906 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1907 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1908 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1909 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1912 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1913 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1915 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1917 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1918 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1919 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1920 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1921 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1924 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1925 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1927 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1928 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1929 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1930 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1931 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1933 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1934 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1935 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1936 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1938 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1939 be the same on different OS.
1941 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1944 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1945 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1947 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1950 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1951 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1952 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1953 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1954 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1955 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1958 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1959 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1960 when Exim was called.
1962 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1963 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1965 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1966 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1967 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1968 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1970 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1971 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1972 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1973 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1976 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1977 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1978 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1980 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1981 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1982 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1984 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1987 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1988 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1989 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1990 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1991 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1992 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1993 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1994 values from the SRV records were lost.
1996 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1997 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1998 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2000 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2001 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2002 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2004 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2005 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2006 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2007 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2008 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2009 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2010 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2011 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2012 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2013 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2015 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2016 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2017 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2019 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2020 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2022 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2023 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2024 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2025 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2028 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2029 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2030 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2032 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2033 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2034 PH/23 above applies.
2036 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2037 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2038 (for which there is an explicit test).
2040 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2042 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2043 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2044 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2045 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2046 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2048 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2049 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2050 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2051 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2053 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2054 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2055 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2057 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2059 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2061 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2062 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2063 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2065 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2066 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2067 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2068 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2069 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2071 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2072 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2073 the message gets confusing).
2075 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2076 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2077 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2078 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2080 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2081 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2082 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2083 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2086 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2087 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2088 the different processes.
2090 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2092 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2094 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2095 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2097 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2098 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2100 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2101 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2102 messages matching specified criteria.
2104 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2106 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2107 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2109 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2110 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2111 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2112 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2113 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2114 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2115 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2116 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2117 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2118 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2120 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2121 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2122 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2124 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2126 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2127 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2128 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2129 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2130 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2131 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2132 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2135 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2136 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2138 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2140 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2142 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2144 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2145 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2146 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2147 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2148 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2149 size of the count of files.
2151 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2153 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2156 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2157 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2158 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2159 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2161 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2162 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2163 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2165 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2166 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2167 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2168 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2169 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2171 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2172 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2174 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2175 will now be deprecated.
2177 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2179 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2180 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2181 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2183 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2184 with very large, slow to parse queues
2186 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2188 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2190 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2191 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2192 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2195 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2196 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2197 Sieve code now uses this.
2199 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2200 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2202 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2203 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2205 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2207 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2208 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2209 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2210 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2211 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2213 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2214 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2215 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2216 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2218 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2220 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2222 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2223 is preferred over IPv4.
2225 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2226 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2227 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2228 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2229 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2230 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2231 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2233 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2234 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2235 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2237 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2239 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2240 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2241 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2242 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2243 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2244 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2245 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2246 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2247 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2248 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2249 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2251 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2252 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2253 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2259 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2261 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2262 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2264 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2265 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2266 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2268 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2270 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2273 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2276 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2277 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2278 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2281 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2282 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2284 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2285 inside the third argument.
2287 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2288 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2291 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2292 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2294 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2295 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2297 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2299 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2300 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2303 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2305 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2306 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2307 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2308 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2309 identical. For example:
2311 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2313 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2314 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2315 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2317 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2318 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2319 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2320 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2322 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2323 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2324 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2327 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2329 o fixes some comments
2330 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2331 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2332 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2333 and documents the missing references header update
2337 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2338 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2341 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2342 Electronic Mail") by including:
2344 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2346 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2347 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2348 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2349 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2350 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2352 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2354 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2356 The auto-replied keyword:
2358 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2359 message by an automatic process,
2361 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2363 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2364 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2366 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2367 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2370 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2371 to the default Received: header definition.
2373 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2375 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2376 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2377 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2379 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2380 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2381 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2383 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2384 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2385 and treats the condition as false.
2387 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2389 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2390 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2391 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2392 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2393 not changing the active code.
2395 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2396 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2398 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2399 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2401 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2404 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2405 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2406 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2407 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2408 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2409 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2410 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2411 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2412 the text comparison.
2414 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2415 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2416 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2417 The same fix has been applied.
2423 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2424 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2427 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2428 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2430 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2432 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2433 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2434 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2435 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2436 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2438 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2439 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2440 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2441 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2444 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2452 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2453 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2455 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2457 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2459 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2460 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2461 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2463 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2464 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2465 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2467 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2468 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2471 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2472 ${stat: expansion item.
2474 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2475 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2477 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2478 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2481 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2483 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2486 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2487 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2489 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2491 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2492 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2493 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2494 the end of the subprocess.
2496 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2497 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2498 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2499 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2500 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2502 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2504 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2506 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2507 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2509 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2511 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2513 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2514 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2517 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2519 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2520 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2521 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2523 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2524 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2526 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2527 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2529 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2530 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2532 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2533 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2535 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2536 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2537 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2538 contributed by a Radius user.
2540 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2541 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2543 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2544 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2546 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2549 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2550 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2553 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2554 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2555 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2556 header lines when this was not necessary.
2558 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2560 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2561 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2562 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2565 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2568 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2569 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2570 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2571 return code was incorrect.
2573 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2575 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2577 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2579 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2581 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2582 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2583 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2584 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2585 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2588 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2590 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2591 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2592 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2593 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2594 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2595 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2596 which is clearly wrong.
2598 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2600 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2601 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2602 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2605 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2606 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2608 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2610 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2611 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2613 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2614 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2616 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2617 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2619 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2620 recipients, not senders.
2622 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2623 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2625 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2627 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2629 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2630 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2631 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2632 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2634 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2636 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2637 clock is set back in time.
2639 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2640 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2642 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2643 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2645 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2646 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2649 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2650 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2653 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2656 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2658 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2659 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2660 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2662 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2663 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2664 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2665 helo verification defer as a failure.
2667 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2668 actual error message.
2674 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2676 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2677 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2678 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2679 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2681 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2683 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2684 can still be requested.
2686 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2687 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2688 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2689 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2691 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2692 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2693 circumstances, but probably never did.
2695 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2696 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2697 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2700 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2702 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2703 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2705 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2707 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2709 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2710 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2711 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2712 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2713 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2714 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2716 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2717 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2718 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2719 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2720 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2721 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2723 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2724 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2726 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2727 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2729 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2730 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2732 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2734 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2736 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2738 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2740 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2742 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2744 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2746 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2747 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2748 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2750 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2751 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2752 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2753 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2755 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2756 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2757 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2759 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2760 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2761 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2762 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2764 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2765 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2768 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2769 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2770 should work with maildirs and everything.
2772 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2773 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2775 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2778 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2779 function for BDB 4.3.
2781 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2783 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2784 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2787 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2788 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2789 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2790 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2791 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2792 formatting function string_vformat().
2794 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2795 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2796 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2797 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2798 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2799 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2800 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2801 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2803 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2804 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2807 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2808 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2810 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2811 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2812 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2813 test. It is now used for both.
2815 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2816 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2817 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2818 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2819 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2820 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2822 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2823 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2824 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2827 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2828 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2829 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2831 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2832 experimental DomainKeys support:
2834 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2835 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2836 the control was given.
2838 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2840 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2842 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2844 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2845 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2846 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2849 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2850 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2851 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2852 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2853 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2854 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2857 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2858 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2859 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2860 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2861 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2862 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2864 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2865 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2866 do -d+all out of habit.
2868 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2869 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2872 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2873 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2874 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2875 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2876 record types that Exim uses.
2878 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2879 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2880 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2881 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2882 non-existent file that was broken.
2884 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2885 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2887 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2888 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2889 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2891 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2893 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2894 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2895 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2896 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2897 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2900 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2901 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2902 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2903 at a slight CPU cost.
2905 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2906 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2908 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2911 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2913 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2914 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2920 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2921 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2923 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2925 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2927 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2928 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2930 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2931 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2932 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2933 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2934 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2935 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2938 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2939 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2940 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2941 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2944 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2945 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2946 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2947 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2948 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2949 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2950 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2953 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2954 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2956 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2957 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2958 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2959 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2960 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2961 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2963 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2964 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2965 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2966 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2968 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2971 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2972 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2974 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2975 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2976 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2977 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2980 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2982 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2983 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2985 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2986 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2987 to what was transported.)
2989 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2991 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2992 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2993 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2994 spamd_address settings.
2996 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2997 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2998 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2999 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3000 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3002 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3004 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3005 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3006 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3007 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3008 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3010 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3011 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3013 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3014 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3015 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3016 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3017 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3018 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3019 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3022 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3023 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3024 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3025 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3026 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3027 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3028 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3031 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3033 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3034 driver and ACL definitions.
3036 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3037 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3039 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3040 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3041 understands it better than I do:
3043 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3044 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3046 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3047 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3048 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3049 => three warnings about OTP not working
3050 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3052 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3053 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3054 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3055 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3057 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3058 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3060 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3061 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3062 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3064 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3065 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3068 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3069 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3072 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3073 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3074 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3076 warn !verify = sender
3077 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3079 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3080 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3082 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3084 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3085 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3087 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3088 nomenclature these days.)
3090 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3091 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3093 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3094 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3095 . First host does not offer TLS;
3096 . First host accepts first address;
3097 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3098 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3099 . Second host accepts second address.
3100 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3101 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3104 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3105 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3106 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3107 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3108 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3110 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3111 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3113 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3114 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3116 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3117 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3118 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3120 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3121 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3124 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3126 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3127 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3128 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3129 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3130 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3131 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3132 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3134 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3135 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3136 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3137 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3138 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3140 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3141 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3144 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3145 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3146 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3147 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3148 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3149 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3151 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3153 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3154 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3155 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3156 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3157 printable escape sequences.
3159 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3160 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3163 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3164 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3167 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3168 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3169 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3170 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3171 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3173 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3174 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3175 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3177 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3179 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3180 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3183 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3184 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3185 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3186 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3187 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3188 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3189 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3190 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3191 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3194 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3195 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3196 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3197 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3201 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3202 ----------------------------------------
3204 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3205 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3206 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3207 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3208 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3209 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3212 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3213 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3214 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3215 historical information.
3221 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3223 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3224 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3226 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3227 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3230 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3231 filter fails to execute.
3233 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3234 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3235 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3236 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3237 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3239 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3241 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3242 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3243 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3244 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3246 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3247 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3248 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3249 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3250 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3252 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3254 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3256 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3257 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3258 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3259 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3261 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3262 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3263 sender verification.
3265 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3266 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3268 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3270 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3273 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3274 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3276 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3277 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3279 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3280 information about exactly what failed.
3282 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3284 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3285 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3286 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3288 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3289 It is now set to "smtps".
3291 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3292 ignore_target_hosts.
3294 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3295 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3296 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3297 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3300 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3301 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3302 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3304 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3305 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3306 wake it up if nothing else does.
3308 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3309 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3310 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3313 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3314 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3316 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3318 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3319 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3320 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3321 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3322 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3323 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3324 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3325 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3327 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3328 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3329 than one IP address.
3331 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3332 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3333 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3334 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3336 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3337 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3338 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3339 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3340 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3343 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3344 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3345 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3346 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3348 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3349 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3352 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3353 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3354 $sender_host_address.
3356 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3357 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3358 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3359 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3360 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3363 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3365 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3366 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3368 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3369 just the host names, not the priorities.
3371 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3372 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3373 controlled by a keyword.
3375 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3376 multiple records are returned.
3378 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3379 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3382 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3384 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3385 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3387 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3388 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3389 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3391 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3393 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3395 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3397 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3398 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3399 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3400 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3401 because the tests only now provoked it.
3403 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3404 (this can affect the format of dates).
3406 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3407 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3408 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3409 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3411 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3413 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3414 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3415 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3416 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3418 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3419 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3420 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3422 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3425 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3426 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3427 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3428 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3429 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3430 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3433 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3434 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3435 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3438 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3439 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3440 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3442 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3443 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3444 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3445 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3446 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3447 so I produce this patch..."
3449 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3450 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3453 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3454 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3455 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3456 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3459 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3461 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3462 long debug lines gets shown.
3464 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3465 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3467 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3469 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3470 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3471 of $primary_hostname.
3473 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3474 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3475 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3476 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3477 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3478 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3479 by change 4.50/55 above.
3481 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3482 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3483 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3484 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3485 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3486 running as the user.
3489 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3490 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3491 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3494 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3495 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3497 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3498 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3499 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3500 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3501 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3503 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3504 This has been fixed.
3506 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3507 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3508 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3509 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3512 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3514 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3515 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3516 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3517 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3519 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3520 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3522 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3523 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3524 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3526 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3527 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3528 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3531 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3532 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3533 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3535 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3536 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3537 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3538 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3540 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3541 during host lookups.
3543 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3544 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3546 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3548 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3549 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3550 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3551 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3552 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3555 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3556 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3558 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3559 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3560 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3562 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3564 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3565 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3566 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3567 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3568 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3569 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3572 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3573 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3574 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3575 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3576 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3578 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3581 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3583 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3584 "vacation" handling.
3586 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3587 OS variants using glibc.
3589 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3592 ----------------------------------------------------
3593 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3594 ----------------------------------------------------
3600 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3601 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3604 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3605 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3608 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3609 filter fails to execute.
3611 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3612 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3613 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3614 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3615 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3617 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3618 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3619 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3620 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3622 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3623 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3624 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3625 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3626 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3628 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3630 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3631 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3632 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3633 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3635 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3636 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3637 sender verification.
3639 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3640 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3642 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3643 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3645 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3646 ignore_target_hosts.
3648 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3649 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3650 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3651 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3654 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3655 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3656 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3658 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3659 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3660 wake it up if nothing else does.
3662 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3663 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3664 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3667 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3668 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3670 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3672 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3673 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3676 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3677 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3680 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3681 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3682 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3683 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3684 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3687 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3688 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3691 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3692 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3693 $sender_host_address.
3695 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3697 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3698 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3699 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3701 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3704 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3705 (this can affect the format of dates).
3707 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3708 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3709 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3710 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3712 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3713 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3714 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3716 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3717 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3718 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3719 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3721 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3722 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3723 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3725 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3728 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3729 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3730 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3731 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3732 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3733 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3736 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3737 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3738 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3739 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3742 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3743 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3744 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3745 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3746 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3747 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3748 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3750 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3751 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3752 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3753 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3754 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3755 running as the user.
3758 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3759 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3760 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3763 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3764 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3765 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3766 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3767 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3769 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3770 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3771 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3772 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3775 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3776 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3777 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3778 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3779 because the tests only now provoked it.
3785 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3786 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3787 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3788 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3789 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3790 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3791 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3793 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3794 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3797 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3799 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3801 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3802 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3805 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3806 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3807 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3808 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3809 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3811 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3812 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3814 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3816 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3818 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3821 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3822 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3824 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3825 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3826 affecting debugging statements).
3828 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3830 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3831 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3832 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3833 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3834 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3835 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3836 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3837 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3838 after the received time, and all would be well.
3840 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3841 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3842 condition in an expansion string.
3844 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3846 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3847 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3848 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3849 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3850 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3851 job under whatever limits there are.
3853 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3855 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3858 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3859 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3860 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3861 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3864 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3865 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3866 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3867 binary data in such strings.
3869 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3871 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3872 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3873 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3874 failure, which is pointless.
3876 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3878 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3880 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3881 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3882 Sender: header lines.
3884 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3885 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3886 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3888 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3889 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3890 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3891 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3892 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3895 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3896 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3897 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3898 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3899 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3901 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3902 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3903 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3906 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3907 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3909 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3910 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3912 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3914 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3916 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3918 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3921 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3923 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3925 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3926 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3927 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3928 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3930 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3931 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3937 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3938 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3939 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3941 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3942 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3943 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3944 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3945 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3946 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3948 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3949 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3950 verification failure".
3952 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3953 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3954 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3955 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3957 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3958 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3959 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3960 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3961 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3962 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3963 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3964 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3965 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3966 treated as a timeout.
3968 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3969 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3970 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3971 not set for Exim filters).
3973 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3974 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3975 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3977 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3979 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3980 try to make them clearer.
3982 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3983 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3985 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3987 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3989 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3990 only the Cygwin environment.
3992 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3993 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3994 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3995 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3996 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3998 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3999 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4000 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4001 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4002 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4003 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4004 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4006 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4007 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4009 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4011 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4012 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4013 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4015 To: susanne@some.where
4017 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4018 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4019 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4020 of addresses in From: header lines).
4022 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4023 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4024 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4026 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4027 treated as non-personal.
4029 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4030 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4032 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4034 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4036 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4037 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4038 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4040 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4041 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4043 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4044 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4045 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4046 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4047 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4048 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4050 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4051 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4052 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4053 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4054 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4055 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4056 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4057 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4059 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4061 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4062 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4064 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4065 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4066 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4068 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4069 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4071 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4072 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4073 rather than long int.
4075 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4077 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4083 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4084 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4085 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4086 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4087 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4088 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4094 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4095 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4097 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4098 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4099 socklen_t is defined.
4101 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4104 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4107 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4108 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4109 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4110 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4111 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4113 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4114 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4115 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4116 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4118 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4119 of flapping under certain conditions.
4121 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4122 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4123 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4125 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4127 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4129 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4130 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4131 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4132 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4134 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4135 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4136 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4137 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4138 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4139 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4140 preserved with the message after it was received.
4142 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4143 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4144 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4145 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4146 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4147 test suite worked just fine.
4149 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4150 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4151 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4153 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4154 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4157 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4158 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4159 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4160 does not fully solve it.
4162 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4163 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4164 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4165 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4166 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4168 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4169 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4170 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4172 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4173 string, for example:
4175 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4177 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4178 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4179 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4180 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4181 the routers could not see them.
4183 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4184 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4186 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4187 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4190 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4191 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4192 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4193 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4194 that needed quoting.
4196 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4197 was not being matched caselessly.
4199 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4202 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4203 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4204 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4205 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4206 when use_sender is false.
4208 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4210 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4212 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4214 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4215 the configuration file.
4217 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4218 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4220 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4222 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4223 bytes in the message body.
4225 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4226 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4229 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4231 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4233 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4234 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4235 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4236 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4243 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4244 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4246 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4247 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4248 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4249 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4250 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4252 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4253 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4255 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4256 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4257 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4259 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4260 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4261 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4263 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4266 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4267 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4268 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4269 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4270 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4271 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4272 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4278 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4279 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4280 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4281 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4282 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4283 default (and expected) setting.
4285 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4286 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4287 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4288 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4290 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4291 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4293 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4296 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4297 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4298 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4299 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4300 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4301 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4303 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4304 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4305 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4307 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4308 part (NOT match_host).
4310 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4312 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4313 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4314 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4315 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4316 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4317 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4318 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4319 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4320 the same named file.
4322 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4323 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4326 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4327 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4328 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4329 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4332 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4333 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4334 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4336 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4338 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4340 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4342 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4343 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4345 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4346 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4347 before starting the TLS session.
4349 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4351 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4352 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4354 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4355 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4356 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4357 colon in the middle).
4363 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4364 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4365 multiple configurations are in use.
4367 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4368 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4369 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4370 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4371 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4372 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4374 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4375 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4377 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4378 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4379 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4381 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4382 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4385 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4386 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4388 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4390 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4391 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4393 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4401 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4402 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4403 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4404 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4405 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4407 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4410 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4411 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4412 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4413 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4414 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4415 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4417 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4418 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4419 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4420 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4421 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4422 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4423 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4426 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4427 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4428 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4429 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4430 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4432 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4434 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4435 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4436 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4438 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4440 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4441 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4442 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4445 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4446 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4448 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4449 Three changes have been made:
4451 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4452 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4453 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4454 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4455 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4457 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4460 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4461 the modified behaviour.
4467 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4470 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4471 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4473 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4474 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4475 try to track down a specific problem.
4477 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4478 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4479 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4481 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4484 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4485 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4486 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4487 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4488 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4489 some earlier ones do not.
4491 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4493 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4494 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4495 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4496 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4497 address literals are enabled, of course).
4499 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4501 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4502 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4503 by a command such as
4507 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4509 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4511 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4512 remained set. It is now erased.
4514 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4515 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4517 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4518 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4519 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4520 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4521 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4522 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4523 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4524 appropriate error code.
4526 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4527 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4528 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4529 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4530 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4531 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4533 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4534 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4535 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4537 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4538 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4539 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4540 terminate the header.
4542 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4543 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4544 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4546 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4547 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4548 (4.30/29). In particular:
4550 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4553 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4554 to write a maildirsize file.
4556 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4557 the transport, the new value overrides.
4559 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4562 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4563 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4564 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4567 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4568 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4569 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4572 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4573 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4574 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4576 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4577 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4580 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4581 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4582 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4584 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4586 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4588 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4590 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4591 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4594 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4595 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4596 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4597 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4598 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4599 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4600 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4603 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4604 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4605 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4606 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4607 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4610 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4611 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4612 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4613 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4614 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4615 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4616 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4617 cached value only when the same options are set.
4619 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4621 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4622 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4623 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4624 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4625 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4627 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4628 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4629 it is clearly obsolete.
4631 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4634 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4635 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4636 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4639 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4640 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4641 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4642 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4643 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4645 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4646 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4647 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4648 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4650 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4652 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4654 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4655 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4658 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4659 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4660 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4661 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4662 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4663 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4666 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4667 with the -f command-line option.
4669 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4670 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4671 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4672 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4673 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4674 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4676 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4677 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4680 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4681 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4682 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4683 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4684 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4685 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4686 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4687 buffer is too small.
4689 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4690 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4692 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4693 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4694 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4695 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4696 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4697 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4698 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4699 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4700 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4702 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4703 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4704 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4706 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4707 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4710 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4711 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4712 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4713 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4714 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4716 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4717 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4718 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4719 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4722 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4724 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4726 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4727 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4729 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4730 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4731 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4733 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4734 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4735 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4736 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4737 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4739 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4740 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4741 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4742 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4743 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4744 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4745 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4747 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4748 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4749 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4750 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4751 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4752 the test of how many are available.
4754 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4755 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4756 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4757 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4758 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4759 new message is started.
4761 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4762 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4764 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4765 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4767 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4768 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4769 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4772 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4773 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4774 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4775 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4776 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4777 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4778 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4780 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4781 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4782 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4783 interpreted as octal.
4785 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4788 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4789 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4790 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4791 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4792 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4793 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4795 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4796 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4797 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4798 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4800 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4801 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4802 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4803 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4805 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4806 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4809 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4810 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4812 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4814 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4815 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4816 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4817 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4819 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4820 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4821 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4822 supplied", which is not helpful.
4824 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4825 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4826 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4828 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4829 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4830 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4831 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4832 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4833 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4834 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4835 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4837 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4838 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4839 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4840 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4841 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4843 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4844 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4845 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4846 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4847 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4848 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4850 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4851 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4852 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4854 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4856 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4857 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4858 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4861 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4863 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4864 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4865 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4866 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4867 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4868 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4869 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4870 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4872 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4873 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4874 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4875 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4876 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4878 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4881 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4882 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4883 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4884 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4885 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4886 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4887 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4888 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4889 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4895 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4896 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4897 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4899 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4902 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4903 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4904 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4906 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4907 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4908 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4909 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4910 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4911 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4913 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4914 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4915 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4916 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4917 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4918 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4919 the Exim test suite.
4921 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4922 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4923 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4924 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4926 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4927 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4928 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4929 specify it in this variable.
4931 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4932 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4933 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4934 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4936 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4937 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4938 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4939 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4941 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4942 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4943 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4944 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4945 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4947 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4949 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4952 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4953 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4954 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4955 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4956 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4958 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4959 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4961 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4962 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4963 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4964 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4965 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4967 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4968 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4970 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4971 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4972 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4974 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4975 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4977 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4978 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4980 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4981 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4982 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4984 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4985 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4987 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4988 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4989 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4990 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4992 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4994 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4995 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4996 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4997 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4999 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5001 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5002 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5004 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5006 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5007 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5008 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5009 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5010 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5011 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5013 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5015 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5016 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5019 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5021 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5022 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5024 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5025 550 Sender verify failed
5027 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5028 the final line of the response.
5030 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5031 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5032 all other user lookups.
5034 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5037 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5038 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5039 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5040 result into an int without checking.
5042 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5043 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5044 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5046 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5047 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5048 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5049 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5051 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5054 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5055 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5057 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5058 to the empty sender.
5060 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5061 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5062 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5063 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5064 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5065 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5066 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5069 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5070 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5071 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5072 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5075 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5076 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5078 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5081 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5082 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5084 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5086 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5087 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5090 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5091 as soon as it is encountered.
5093 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5095 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5098 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5099 recognizes a tab character.
5101 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5102 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5103 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5104 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5106 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5108 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5111 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5113 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5115 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5116 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5119 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5120 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5121 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5122 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5123 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5125 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5126 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5128 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5129 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5130 list (.included file names were always shown).
5132 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5133 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5134 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5137 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5138 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5140 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5142 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5144 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5146 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5147 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5148 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5149 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5150 failures to open the logs.
5152 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5153 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5154 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5155 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5156 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5157 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5158 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5164 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5165 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5166 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5169 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5170 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5171 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5173 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5174 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5175 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5177 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5178 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5179 causing some misleading effects.
5181 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5182 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5183 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5185 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5186 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5187 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5188 queue-runner function directly.
5194 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5197 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5198 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5199 was always written to the default place.
5201 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5202 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5203 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5205 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5207 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5209 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5210 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5211 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5213 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5214 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5217 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5218 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5219 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5221 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5222 command line option is disabled.
5224 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5225 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5227 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5229 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5231 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5232 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5234 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5236 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5237 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5238 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5239 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5240 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5241 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5243 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5244 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5247 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5248 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5250 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5251 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5253 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5254 received was valid base64.
5256 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5257 name of the variable that was being set.
5259 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5261 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5262 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5263 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5264 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5265 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5266 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5268 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5270 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5271 nor realm was specified.
5273 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5274 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5275 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5276 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5278 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5279 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5280 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5282 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5283 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5284 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5286 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5287 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5288 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5289 some systems use these upper case variants.
5291 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5292 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5293 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5294 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5296 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5298 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5299 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5301 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5302 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5305 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5307 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5308 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5309 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5310 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5312 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5315 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5316 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5317 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5319 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5320 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5322 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5323 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5324 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5325 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5327 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5328 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5329 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5331 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5333 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5334 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5335 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5336 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5339 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5340 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5341 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5343 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5345 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5346 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5348 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5349 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5351 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5352 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5353 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5354 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5355 when emails are that large.
5362 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5363 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5365 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5366 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5367 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5369 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5370 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5371 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5373 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5374 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5375 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5376 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5377 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5379 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5380 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5381 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5382 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5383 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5386 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5387 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5388 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5389 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5390 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5391 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5392 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5393 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5394 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5395 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5396 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5397 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5398 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5399 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5401 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5402 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5405 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5406 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5407 error should be diagnosed.
5409 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5410 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5411 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5412 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5413 appeared instead of "NULL".
5415 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5416 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5417 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5418 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5419 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5420 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5423 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5424 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5425 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5431 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5432 or receiver verification errors.
5434 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5437 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5438 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5439 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5440 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5442 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5443 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5444 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5445 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5446 shouldn't happen again.
5448 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5449 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5450 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5452 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5453 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5455 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5457 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5458 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5460 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5461 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5464 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5465 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5466 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5468 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5469 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5470 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5471 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5473 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5474 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5475 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5476 to define what should happen).
5478 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5479 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5480 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5482 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5484 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5486 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5487 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5489 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5490 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5491 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5492 structure in all cases.
5494 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5495 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5496 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5497 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5499 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5500 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5503 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5504 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5506 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5507 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5509 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5510 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5511 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5513 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5514 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5515 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5517 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5518 the book and for uniformity.
5520 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5522 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5523 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5524 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5525 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5526 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5527 non-existent command as the problem.
5529 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5530 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5531 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5533 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5535 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5536 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5537 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5539 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5540 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5541 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5542 timestamps using strftime().
5544 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5545 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5547 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5548 transport-time rewrites.
5550 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5551 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5552 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5553 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5555 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5556 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5558 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5559 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5560 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5561 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5564 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5565 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5566 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5567 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5568 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5569 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5570 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5572 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5573 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5574 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5575 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5576 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5578 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5579 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5580 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5581 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5582 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5583 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5584 remaining text gets split now.
5586 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5587 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5588 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5589 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5591 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5592 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5593 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5594 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5597 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5598 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5599 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5600 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5601 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5602 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5603 passed through if needed.
5605 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5606 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5607 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5608 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5609 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5610 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5612 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5613 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5614 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5615 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5616 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5618 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5619 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5620 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5621 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5622 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5624 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5625 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5628 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5629 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5630 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5631 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5632 mayhem of various kinds.
5634 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5635 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5636 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5637 the right test for positive values.
5639 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5640 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5641 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5642 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5643 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5644 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5645 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5646 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5647 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5648 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5651 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5654 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5655 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5658 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5659 the existing equality matching.
5661 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5662 dealing with inode numbers.
5664 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5665 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5666 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5668 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5669 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5670 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5671 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5674 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5675 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5676 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5677 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5678 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5679 relay addresses has also been removed.
5681 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5683 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5684 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5685 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5687 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5688 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5689 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5690 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5691 processing applies to CR:
5693 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5694 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5696 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5697 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5698 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5699 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5701 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5702 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5703 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5705 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5706 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5707 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5708 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5709 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5710 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5713 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5716 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5717 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5718 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5719 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5722 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5724 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5726 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5728 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5729 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5730 not considered personal.
5732 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5734 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5736 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5738 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5739 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5740 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5741 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5742 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5743 header lines, and spool format errors.
5745 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5746 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5747 for more flexibility.
5749 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5750 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5751 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5753 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5756 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5757 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5758 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5759 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5760 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5761 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5762 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5763 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5764 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5766 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5767 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5768 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5769 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5770 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5771 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5772 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5774 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5775 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5776 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5778 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5779 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5780 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5781 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5782 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5783 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5784 instead of killing the process with assert().
5786 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5787 than Unicode encoding.
5789 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5790 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5791 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5792 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5794 77. Added process_log_path.
5796 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5797 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5799 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5800 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5802 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5803 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5804 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5806 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5807 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5808 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5809 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5810 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5813 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5814 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5817 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5818 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5819 they will be used during message reception.
5825 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.