1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
2 -------------------------------------------
7 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
11 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
13 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
16 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
18 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
20 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
22 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
25 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
28 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
31 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
35 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
37 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
40 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
42 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
44 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
48 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
52 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
56 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
61 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
65 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
68 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
70 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
72 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
74 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
75 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
76 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
78 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
79 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
80 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
81 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
83 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
84 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
86 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
87 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
88 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
89 resolver implementation change.
91 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
92 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
94 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
96 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
98 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
99 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
101 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
102 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
104 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
105 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
107 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
108 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
109 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
110 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
111 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
113 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
115 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
116 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
117 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
119 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
121 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
122 read-only, out of scope).
123 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
125 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
126 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
127 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
128 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
130 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
132 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
133 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
134 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
135 real issues in debug logging.
137 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
138 assignment on my part. Fixed.
140 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
141 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
142 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
144 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
145 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
146 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
149 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
150 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
152 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
153 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
154 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
155 needs to override this, it can.
157 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
158 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
159 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
161 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
162 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
163 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
164 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
170 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
171 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
173 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
175 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
178 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
179 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
181 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
182 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
183 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
185 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
186 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
187 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
188 not safe for signals.
190 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
191 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
192 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
193 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
196 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
198 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
199 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
200 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
201 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
202 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
204 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
205 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
206 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
207 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
208 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
209 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
211 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
212 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
213 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
214 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
216 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
217 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
218 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
219 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
221 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
222 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
223 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
224 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
225 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
226 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
227 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
228 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
229 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
231 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
232 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
233 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
234 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
236 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
237 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
238 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
239 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
240 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
241 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
242 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
243 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
244 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
245 details in the main documentation.
247 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
249 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
251 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
252 repository when doing development or release builds.
254 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
255 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
257 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
258 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
261 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
263 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
264 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
266 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
267 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
269 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
270 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
272 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
273 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
275 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
276 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
278 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
280 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
283 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
284 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
285 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
287 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
289 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
291 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
292 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
298 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
300 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
301 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
303 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
305 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
307 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
310 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
311 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
313 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
314 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
316 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
319 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
322 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
323 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
325 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
326 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
327 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
328 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
330 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
331 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
337 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
340 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
341 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
342 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
344 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
345 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
347 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
348 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
349 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
351 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
352 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
354 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
355 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
357 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
358 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
360 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
361 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
363 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
364 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
366 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
369 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
370 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
372 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
373 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
375 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
376 SQL string expansion failure details.
377 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
379 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
380 Patch from Simon Arlott.
382 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
383 extern declarations in function scope.
384 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
386 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
387 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
388 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
391 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
392 Patch from Mark Zealey.
394 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
395 Patch from Mark Zealey.
397 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
398 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
400 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
401 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
403 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
404 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
407 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
409 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
411 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
412 Patch by Simon Arlott
414 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
415 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
421 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
422 consequences so log it to the panic log.
424 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
425 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
427 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
429 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
430 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
431 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
433 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
434 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
435 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
437 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
438 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
439 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
440 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
442 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
443 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
444 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
445 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
447 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
448 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
449 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
452 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
455 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
456 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
457 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
458 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
459 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
465 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
466 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
467 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
469 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
470 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
472 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
474 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
476 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
478 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
480 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
482 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
483 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
484 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
485 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
487 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
488 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
489 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
490 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
491 more caution in buffer sizes.
493 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
495 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
497 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
499 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
501 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
503 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
505 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
507 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
508 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
509 ignore trailing whitespace.
511 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
513 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
516 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
517 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
519 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
520 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
521 Notification from John Horne.
523 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
526 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
527 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
530 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
533 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
534 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
535 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
537 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
538 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
539 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
542 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
543 option (effectively making it always true).
545 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
546 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
548 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
549 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
551 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
552 run-time user, instead of root.
554 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
555 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
557 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
558 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
561 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
562 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
563 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
565 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
567 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
573 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
574 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
577 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
578 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
581 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
582 Patch from Alain Williams
584 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
586 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
587 Patch from Andreas Metzler
589 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
590 Patch from Kirill Miazine
592 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
594 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
596 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
597 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
599 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
601 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
603 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
604 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
605 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
607 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
608 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
610 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
611 Patch by Simon Arlott
613 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
614 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
620 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
622 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
624 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
626 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
628 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
634 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
635 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
637 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
638 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
641 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
642 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
643 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
645 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
646 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
648 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
649 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
650 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
651 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
653 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
654 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
655 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
657 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
659 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
661 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
662 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
664 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
666 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
667 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
668 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
669 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
671 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
672 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
674 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
676 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
678 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
679 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
681 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
682 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
684 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
685 that they are available at delivery time.
687 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
689 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
690 incoming_port log selectors.
692 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
693 setting expands to an empty string.
695 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
696 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
698 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
699 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
701 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
702 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
704 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
705 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
707 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
708 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
710 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
711 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
713 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
715 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
716 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
718 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
719 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
721 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
723 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
724 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
726 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
728 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
730 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
733 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
734 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
736 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
737 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
739 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
740 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
742 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
743 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
745 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
746 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
748 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
749 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
751 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
752 plus update to original patch.
754 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
756 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
757 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
759 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
761 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
763 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
765 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
767 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
768 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
770 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
771 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
773 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
774 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
776 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
777 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
779 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
781 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
783 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
785 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
791 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
792 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
793 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
795 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
796 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
797 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
798 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
799 build errors in sieve.c.
801 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
802 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
803 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
805 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
807 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
809 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
811 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
817 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
819 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
820 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
821 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
822 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
823 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
824 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
825 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
826 for iplsearch lookups.
828 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
829 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
830 previously such lookups could never work.
832 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
833 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
834 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
836 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
839 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
840 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
841 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
842 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
843 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
844 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
846 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
847 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
849 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
850 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
851 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
852 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
853 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
854 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
856 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
859 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
861 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
862 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
865 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
866 by clients under certain conditions.
868 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
869 "_responses" off the end of the name.
871 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
873 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
874 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
876 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
878 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
880 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
882 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
883 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
885 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
887 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
888 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
890 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
892 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
894 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
895 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
896 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
897 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
899 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
900 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
901 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
903 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
904 and InterBase are left for another time.)
906 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
908 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
910 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
912 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
913 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
914 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
920 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
921 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
924 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
925 issue a MAIL command.
927 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
929 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
931 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
932 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
933 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
934 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
935 item. This has been fixed.
937 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
938 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
940 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
941 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
943 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
944 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
945 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
947 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
949 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
950 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
951 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
952 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
953 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
955 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
956 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
957 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
959 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
960 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
961 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
962 the server_setid option was incorrect.
964 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
966 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
968 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
969 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
970 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
971 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
972 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
974 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
976 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
977 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
978 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
981 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
983 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
985 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
987 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
989 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
991 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
992 no_callout_flush is set.
994 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
995 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
996 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
999 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1001 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1002 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1003 other ACL rejections are.
1005 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1006 with slight modification.
1008 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1009 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1011 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1012 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1015 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1016 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1018 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1020 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1021 expansion side effects.
1023 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1024 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1025 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1028 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1029 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1030 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1032 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1033 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1034 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1035 were accidentally chopped off.
1037 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1038 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1039 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1040 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1041 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1042 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1043 pipelining has not been advertised.
1045 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1047 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1048 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1049 This has been fixed.
1051 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1052 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1053 reported on Solaris.
1055 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1056 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1057 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1058 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1059 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1060 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1061 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1063 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1066 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1068 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1070 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1071 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1072 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1073 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1074 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1075 criteria to be more general.
1077 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1078 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1079 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1080 host_all_ignored option.
1082 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1083 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1084 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1085 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1086 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1087 is what is supposed to happen).
1089 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1090 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1091 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1092 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1093 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1096 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1097 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1098 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1099 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1100 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1101 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1104 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1106 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1107 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1109 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1110 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1112 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1114 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1116 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1117 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1118 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1119 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1120 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1121 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1122 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1123 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1124 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1125 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1126 least in a lot of common cases.
1128 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1129 advertised in response to EHLO.
1135 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1136 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1138 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1139 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1141 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1142 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1143 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1145 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1146 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1147 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1148 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1149 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1155 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1156 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1159 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1160 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1161 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1163 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1164 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1165 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1166 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1167 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1168 rather than extend the field.
1174 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1175 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1176 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1177 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1180 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1181 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1182 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1184 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1185 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1186 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1188 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1189 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1190 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1193 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1194 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1195 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1196 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1197 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1198 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1199 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1200 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1201 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1202 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1203 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1205 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1208 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1209 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1210 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1211 ignores EPIPE as well.
1213 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1214 (quoted-printable decoding).
1216 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1217 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1219 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1221 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1223 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1225 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1226 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1228 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1231 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1232 miscellaneous code fixes
1234 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1237 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1238 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1239 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1240 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1241 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1242 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1243 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1244 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1246 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1247 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1248 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1249 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1251 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1252 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1253 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1254 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1255 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1256 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1257 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1258 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1259 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1261 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1264 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1265 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1266 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1267 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1268 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1269 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1270 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1271 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1273 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1274 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1277 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1278 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1279 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1280 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1281 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1282 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1283 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1284 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1285 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1286 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1287 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1288 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1289 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1291 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1292 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1293 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1294 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1295 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1296 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1297 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1299 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1300 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1301 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1302 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1303 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1304 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1305 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1306 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1307 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1308 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1310 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1311 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1312 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1313 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1314 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1316 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1317 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1318 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1319 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1320 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1321 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1322 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1324 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1325 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1326 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1327 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1328 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1329 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1332 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1333 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1334 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1337 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1338 if any retry times were supplied.
1340 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1341 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1342 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1344 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1346 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1348 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1349 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1350 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1351 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1352 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1353 before) are ignored.
1355 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1356 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1358 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1359 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1360 committing the later change.]
1362 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1363 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1364 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1365 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1366 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1367 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1368 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1369 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1370 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1372 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1373 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1374 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1375 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1376 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1377 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1378 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1379 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1380 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1382 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1383 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1384 hammering the server.
1386 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1387 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1389 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1391 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1392 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1393 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1395 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1396 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1397 one case where this was not true.
1399 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1400 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1401 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1402 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1405 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1406 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1407 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1408 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1409 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1410 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1411 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1412 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1413 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1416 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1417 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1418 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1419 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1421 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1422 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1424 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1425 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1426 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1428 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1430 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1432 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1434 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1435 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1436 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1437 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1439 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1440 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1442 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1443 be meaningful with "accept".
1445 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1446 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1448 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1449 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1450 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1452 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1453 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1454 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1455 there is data to show.
1456 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1458 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1459 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1460 as well as the number of messages.
1462 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1463 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1464 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1466 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1467 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1468 have a flag are now skipped.
1470 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1471 Added the -emptyok flag.
1473 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1474 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1476 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1477 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1478 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1480 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1483 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1484 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1486 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1488 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1489 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1491 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1493 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1494 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1495 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1496 contravention of the specifications.
1498 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1499 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1500 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1502 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1503 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1504 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1506 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1508 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1509 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1510 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1511 some point in the past.
1513 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1514 transport during callout processing was broken.
1516 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1517 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1519 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1520 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1522 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1523 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1525 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1531 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1532 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1534 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1535 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1536 there is data to show.
1537 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1539 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1540 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1542 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1543 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1545 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1546 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1548 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1549 submissions from trusted users.
1551 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1552 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1554 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1555 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1556 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1557 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1558 there is now a framework to start from.
1560 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1561 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1562 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1564 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1566 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1568 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1570 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1571 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1572 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1574 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1577 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1578 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1579 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1581 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1582 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1583 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1586 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1587 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1588 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1589 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1590 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1592 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1593 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1595 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1597 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1598 operations in malware.c.
1600 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1603 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1604 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1605 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1608 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1609 statements to "add_header".
1611 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1612 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1614 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1615 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1618 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1622 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1623 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1624 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1627 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1628 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1630 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1631 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1633 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1634 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1635 any possible encoding problems.
1637 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1638 but not after initializing Perl.
1640 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1641 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1642 apparently, which is not desirable.
1644 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1647 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1650 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1652 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1653 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1654 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1655 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1657 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1658 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1659 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1661 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1662 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1663 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1666 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1667 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1668 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1669 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1670 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1676 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1677 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1679 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1682 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1683 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1684 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1685 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1686 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1687 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1688 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1689 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1692 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1694 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1695 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1696 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1698 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1699 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1700 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1703 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1704 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1706 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1707 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1708 option (which defaults to 0600).
1710 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1712 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1713 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1714 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1715 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1716 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1717 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1718 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1720 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1726 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1727 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1728 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1729 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1730 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1731 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1734 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1735 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1737 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1739 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1740 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1741 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1742 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1743 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1746 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1747 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1749 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1750 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1751 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1752 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1753 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1755 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1756 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1757 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1758 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1760 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1761 be the same on different OS.
1763 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1766 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1767 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1769 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1772 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1773 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1774 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1775 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1776 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1777 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1780 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1781 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1782 when Exim was called.
1784 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1785 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1787 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1788 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1789 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1790 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1792 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1793 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1794 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1795 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1798 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1799 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1800 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1802 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1803 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1804 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1806 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1809 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1810 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1811 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1812 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1813 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1814 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1815 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1816 values from the SRV records were lost.
1818 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1819 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1820 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1822 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1823 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1824 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1826 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1827 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1828 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1829 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1830 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1831 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1832 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1833 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1834 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1835 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1837 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1838 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1839 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1841 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1842 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1844 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1845 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1846 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1847 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1850 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1851 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1852 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1854 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1855 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1856 PH/23 above applies.
1858 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1859 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1860 (for which there is an explicit test).
1862 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1864 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1865 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1866 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1867 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1868 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1870 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1871 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1872 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1873 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1875 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1876 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1877 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1879 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1881 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1883 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1884 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1885 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1887 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1888 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1889 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1890 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1891 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1893 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1894 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1895 the message gets confusing).
1897 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1898 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1899 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1900 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1902 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1903 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1904 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1905 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1908 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1909 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1910 the different processes.
1912 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1914 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1916 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1917 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1919 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1920 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1922 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1923 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1924 messages matching specified criteria.
1926 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1928 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1929 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1931 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1932 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1933 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1934 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1935 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1936 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1937 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1938 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1939 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1940 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1942 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1943 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1944 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1946 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1948 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1949 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1950 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1951 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1952 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1953 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1954 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1957 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1958 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1960 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1962 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1964 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1966 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1967 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1968 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1969 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1970 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1971 size of the count of files.
1973 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1975 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1978 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1979 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1980 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1981 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1983 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1984 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1985 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1987 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1988 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1989 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1990 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1991 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1993 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1994 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1996 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1997 will now be deprecated.
1999 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2001 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2002 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2003 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2005 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2006 with very large, slow to parse queues
2008 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2010 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2012 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2013 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2014 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2017 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2018 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2019 Sieve code now uses this.
2021 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2022 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2024 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2025 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2027 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2029 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2030 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2031 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2032 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2033 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2035 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2036 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2037 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2038 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2040 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2042 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2044 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2045 is preferred over IPv4.
2047 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2048 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2049 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2050 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2051 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2052 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2053 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2055 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2056 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2057 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2059 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2061 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2062 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2063 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2064 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2065 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2066 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2067 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2068 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2069 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2070 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2071 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2073 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2074 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2075 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2081 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2083 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2084 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2086 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2087 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2088 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2090 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2092 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2095 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2098 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2099 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2100 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2103 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2104 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2106 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2107 inside the third argument.
2109 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2110 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2113 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2114 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2116 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2117 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2119 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2121 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2122 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2125 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2127 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2128 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2129 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2130 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2131 identical. For example:
2133 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2135 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2136 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2137 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2139 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2140 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2141 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2142 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2144 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2145 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2146 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2149 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2151 o fixes some comments
2152 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2153 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2154 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2155 and documents the missing references header update
2159 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2160 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2163 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2164 Electronic Mail") by including:
2166 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2168 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2169 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2170 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2171 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2172 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2174 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2176 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2178 The auto-replied keyword:
2180 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2181 message by an automatic process,
2183 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2185 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2186 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2188 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2189 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2192 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2193 to the default Received: header definition.
2195 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2197 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2198 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2199 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2201 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2202 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2203 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2205 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2206 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2207 and treats the condition as false.
2209 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2211 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2212 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2213 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2214 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2215 not changing the active code.
2217 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2218 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2220 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2221 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2223 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2226 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2227 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2228 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2229 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2230 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2231 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2232 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2233 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2234 the text comparison.
2236 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2237 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2238 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2239 The same fix has been applied.
2245 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2246 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2249 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2250 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2252 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2254 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2255 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2256 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2257 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2258 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2260 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2261 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2262 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2263 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2266 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2274 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2275 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2277 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2279 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2281 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2282 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2283 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2285 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2286 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2287 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2289 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2290 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2293 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2294 ${stat: expansion item.
2296 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2297 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2299 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2300 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2303 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2305 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2308 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2309 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2311 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2313 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2314 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2315 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2316 the end of the subprocess.
2318 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2319 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2320 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2321 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2322 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2324 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2326 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2328 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2329 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2331 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2333 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2335 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2336 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2339 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2341 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2342 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2343 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2345 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2346 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2348 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2349 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2351 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2352 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2354 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2355 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2357 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2358 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2359 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2360 contributed by a Radius user.
2362 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2363 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2365 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2366 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2368 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2371 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2372 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2375 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2376 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2377 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2378 header lines when this was not necessary.
2380 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2382 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2383 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2384 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2387 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2390 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2391 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2392 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2393 return code was incorrect.
2395 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2397 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2399 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2401 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2403 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2404 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2405 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2406 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2407 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2410 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2412 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2413 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2414 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2415 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2416 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2417 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2418 which is clearly wrong.
2420 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2422 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2423 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2424 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2427 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2428 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2430 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2432 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2433 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2435 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2436 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2438 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2439 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2441 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2442 recipients, not senders.
2444 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2445 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2447 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2449 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2451 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2452 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2453 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2454 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2456 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2458 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2459 clock is set back in time.
2461 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2462 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2464 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2465 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2467 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2468 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2471 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2472 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2475 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2478 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2480 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2481 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2482 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2484 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2485 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2486 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2487 helo verification defer as a failure.
2489 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2490 actual error message.
2496 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2498 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2499 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2500 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2501 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2503 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2505 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2506 can still be requested.
2508 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2509 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2510 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2511 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2513 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2514 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2515 circumstances, but probably never did.
2517 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2518 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2519 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2522 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2524 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2525 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2527 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2529 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2531 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2532 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2533 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2534 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2535 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2536 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2538 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2539 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2540 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2541 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2542 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2543 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2545 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2546 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2548 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2549 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2551 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2552 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2554 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2556 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2558 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2560 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2562 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2564 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2566 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2568 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2569 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2570 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2572 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2573 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2574 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2575 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2577 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2578 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2579 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2581 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2582 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2583 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2584 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2586 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2587 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2590 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2591 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2592 should work with maildirs and everything.
2594 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2595 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2597 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2600 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2601 function for BDB 4.3.
2603 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2605 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2606 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2609 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2610 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2611 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2612 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2613 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2614 formatting function string_vformat().
2616 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2617 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2618 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2619 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2620 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2621 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2622 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2623 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2625 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2626 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2629 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2630 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2632 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2633 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2634 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2635 test. It is now used for both.
2637 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2638 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2639 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2640 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2641 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2642 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2644 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2645 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2646 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2649 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2650 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2651 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2653 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2654 experimental DomainKeys support:
2656 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2657 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2658 the control was given.
2660 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2662 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2664 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2666 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2667 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2668 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2671 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2672 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2673 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2674 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2675 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2676 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2679 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2680 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2681 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2682 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2683 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2684 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2686 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2687 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2688 do -d+all out of habit.
2690 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2691 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2694 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2695 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2696 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2697 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2698 record types that Exim uses.
2700 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2701 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2702 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2703 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2704 non-existent file that was broken.
2706 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2707 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2709 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2710 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2711 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2713 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2715 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2716 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2717 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2718 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2719 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2722 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2723 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2724 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2725 at a slight CPU cost.
2727 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2728 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2730 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2733 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2735 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2736 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2742 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2743 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2745 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2747 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2749 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2750 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2752 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2753 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2754 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2755 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2756 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2757 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2760 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2761 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2762 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2763 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2766 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2767 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2768 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2769 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2770 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2771 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2772 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2775 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2776 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2778 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2779 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2780 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2781 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2782 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2783 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2785 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2786 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2787 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2788 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2790 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2793 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2794 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2796 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2797 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2798 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2799 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2802 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2804 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2805 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2807 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2808 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2809 to what was transported.)
2811 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2813 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2814 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2815 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2816 spamd_address settings.
2818 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2819 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2820 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2821 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2822 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2824 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2826 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2827 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2828 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2829 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2830 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2832 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2833 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2835 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2836 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2837 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2838 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2839 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2840 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2841 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2844 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2845 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2846 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2847 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2848 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2849 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2850 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2853 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2855 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2856 driver and ACL definitions.
2858 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2859 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2861 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2862 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2863 understands it better than I do:
2865 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2866 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2868 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2869 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2870 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2871 => three warnings about OTP not working
2872 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2874 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2875 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2876 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2877 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2879 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2880 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2882 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2883 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2884 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2886 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2887 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2890 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2891 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2894 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2895 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2896 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2898 warn !verify = sender
2899 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2901 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2902 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2904 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2906 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2907 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2909 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2910 nomenclature these days.)
2912 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2913 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2915 PH/30 In these circumstances:
2916 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2917 . First host does not offer TLS;
2918 . First host accepts first address;
2919 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2920 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2921 . Second host accepts second address.
2922 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2923 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2926 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2927 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2928 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2929 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2930 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2932 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2933 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2935 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2936 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2938 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2939 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2940 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2942 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2943 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2946 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2948 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2949 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2950 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2951 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2952 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2953 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2954 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2956 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2957 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2958 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2959 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2960 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2962 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2963 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2966 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2967 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2968 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2969 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2970 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2971 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2973 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2975 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2976 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2977 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2978 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2979 printable escape sequences.
2981 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2982 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2985 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2986 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2989 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2990 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2991 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2992 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2993 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2995 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2996 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2997 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2999 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3001 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3002 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3005 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3006 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3007 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3008 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3009 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3010 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3011 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3012 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3013 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3016 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3017 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3018 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3019 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3023 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3024 ----------------------------------------
3026 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3027 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3028 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3029 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3030 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3031 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3034 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3035 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3036 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3037 historical information.
3043 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3045 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3046 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3048 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3049 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3052 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3053 filter fails to execute.
3055 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3056 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3057 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3058 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3059 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3061 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3063 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3064 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3065 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3066 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3068 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3069 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3070 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3071 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3072 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3074 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3076 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3078 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3079 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3080 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3081 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3083 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3084 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3085 sender verification.
3087 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3088 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3090 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3092 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3095 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3096 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3098 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3099 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3101 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3102 information about exactly what failed.
3104 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3106 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3107 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3108 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3110 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3111 It is now set to "smtps".
3113 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3114 ignore_target_hosts.
3116 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3117 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3118 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3119 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3122 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3123 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3124 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3126 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3127 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3128 wake it up if nothing else does.
3130 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3131 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3132 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3135 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3136 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3138 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3140 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3141 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3142 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3143 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3144 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3145 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3146 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3147 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3149 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3150 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3151 than one IP address.
3153 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3154 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3155 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3156 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3158 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3159 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3160 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3161 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3162 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3165 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3166 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3167 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3168 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3170 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3171 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3174 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3175 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3176 $sender_host_address.
3178 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3179 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3180 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3181 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3182 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3185 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3187 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3188 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3190 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3191 just the host names, not the priorities.
3193 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3194 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3195 controlled by a keyword.
3197 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3198 multiple records are returned.
3200 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3201 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3204 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3206 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3207 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3209 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3210 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3211 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3213 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3215 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3217 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3219 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3220 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3221 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3222 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3223 because the tests only now provoked it.
3225 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3226 (this can affect the format of dates).
3228 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3229 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3230 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3231 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3233 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3235 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3236 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3237 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3238 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3240 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3241 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3242 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3244 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3247 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3248 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3249 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3250 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3251 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3252 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3255 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3256 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3257 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3260 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3261 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3262 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3264 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3265 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3266 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3267 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3268 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3269 so I produce this patch..."
3271 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3272 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3275 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3276 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3277 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3278 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3281 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3283 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3284 long debug lines gets shown.
3286 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3287 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3289 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3291 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3292 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3293 of $primary_hostname.
3295 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3296 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3297 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3298 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3299 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3300 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3301 by change 4.50/55 above.
3303 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3304 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3305 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3306 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3307 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3308 running as the user.
3311 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3312 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3313 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3316 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3317 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3319 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3320 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3321 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3322 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3323 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3325 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3326 This has been fixed.
3328 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3329 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3330 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3331 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3334 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3336 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3337 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3338 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3339 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3341 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3342 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3344 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3345 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3346 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3348 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3349 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3350 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3353 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3354 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3355 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3357 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3358 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3359 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3360 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3362 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3363 during host lookups.
3365 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3366 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3368 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3370 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3371 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3372 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3373 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3374 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3377 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3378 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3380 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3381 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3382 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3384 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3386 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3387 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3388 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3389 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3390 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3391 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3394 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3395 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3396 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3397 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3398 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3400 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3403 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3405 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3406 "vacation" handling.
3408 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3409 OS variants using glibc.
3411 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3414 ----------------------------------------------------
3415 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3416 ----------------------------------------------------
3422 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3423 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3426 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3427 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3430 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3431 filter fails to execute.
3433 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3434 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3435 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3436 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3437 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3439 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3440 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3441 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3442 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3444 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3445 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3446 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3447 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3448 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3450 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3452 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3453 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3454 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3455 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3457 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3458 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3459 sender verification.
3461 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3462 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3464 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3465 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3467 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3468 ignore_target_hosts.
3470 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3471 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3472 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3473 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3476 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3477 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3478 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3480 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3481 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3482 wake it up if nothing else does.
3484 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3485 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3486 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3489 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3490 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3492 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3494 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3495 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3498 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3499 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3502 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3503 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3504 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3505 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3506 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3509 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3510 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3513 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3514 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3515 $sender_host_address.
3517 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3519 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3520 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3521 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3523 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3526 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3527 (this can affect the format of dates).
3529 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3530 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3531 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3532 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3534 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3535 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3536 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3538 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3539 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3540 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3541 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3543 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3544 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3545 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3547 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3550 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3551 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3552 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3553 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3554 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3555 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3558 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3559 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3560 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3561 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3564 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3565 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3566 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3567 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3568 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3569 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3570 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3572 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3573 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3574 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3575 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3576 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3577 running as the user.
3580 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3581 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3582 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3585 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3586 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3587 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3588 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3589 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3591 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3592 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3593 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3594 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3597 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3598 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3599 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3600 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3601 because the tests only now provoked it.
3607 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3608 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3609 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3610 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3611 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3612 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3613 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3615 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3616 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3619 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3621 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3623 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3624 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3627 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3628 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3629 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3630 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3631 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3633 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3634 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3636 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3638 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3640 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3643 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3644 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3646 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3647 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3648 affecting debugging statements).
3650 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3652 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3653 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3654 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3655 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3656 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3657 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3658 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3659 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3660 after the received time, and all would be well.
3662 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3663 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3664 condition in an expansion string.
3666 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3668 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3669 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3670 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3671 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3672 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3673 job under whatever limits there are.
3675 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3677 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3680 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3681 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3682 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3683 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3686 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3687 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3688 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3689 binary data in such strings.
3691 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3693 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3694 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3695 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3696 failure, which is pointless.
3698 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3700 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3702 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3703 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3704 Sender: header lines.
3706 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3707 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3708 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3710 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3711 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3712 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3713 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3714 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3717 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3718 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3719 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3720 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3721 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3723 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3724 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3725 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3728 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3729 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3731 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3732 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3734 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3736 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3738 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3740 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3743 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3745 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3747 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3748 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3749 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3750 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3752 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3753 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3759 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3760 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3761 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3763 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3764 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3765 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3766 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3767 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3768 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3770 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3771 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3772 verification failure".
3774 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3775 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3776 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3777 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3779 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3780 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3781 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3782 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3783 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3784 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3785 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3786 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3787 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3788 treated as a timeout.
3790 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3791 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3792 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3793 not set for Exim filters).
3795 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3796 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3797 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3799 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3801 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3802 try to make them clearer.
3804 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3805 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3807 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3809 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3811 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3812 only the Cygwin environment.
3814 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3815 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3816 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3817 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3818 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3820 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3821 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3822 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3823 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3824 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3825 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3826 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3828 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3829 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3831 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3833 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3834 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3835 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3837 To: susanne@some.where
3839 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3840 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3841 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3842 of addresses in From: header lines).
3844 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3845 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3846 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3848 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3849 treated as non-personal.
3851 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3852 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3854 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3856 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3858 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3859 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3860 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3862 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3863 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3865 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3866 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3867 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3868 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3869 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3870 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3872 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3873 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3874 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3875 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3876 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3877 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3878 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3879 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3881 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3883 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3884 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3886 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3887 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3888 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3890 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3891 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3893 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3894 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3895 rather than long int.
3897 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3899 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3905 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3906 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3907 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3908 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3909 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3910 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3916 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3917 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3919 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3920 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3921 socklen_t is defined.
3923 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3926 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3929 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3930 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3931 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3932 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3933 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3935 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3936 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3937 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3938 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3940 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3941 of flapping under certain conditions.
3943 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3944 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3945 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3947 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3949 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3951 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3952 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3953 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3954 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3956 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3957 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3958 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3959 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3960 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3961 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3962 preserved with the message after it was received.
3964 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3965 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3966 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3967 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3968 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3969 test suite worked just fine.
3971 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3972 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3973 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3975 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3976 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3979 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3980 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3981 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3982 does not fully solve it.
3984 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3985 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3986 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3987 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3988 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3990 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3991 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3992 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3994 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3995 string, for example:
3997 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3999 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4000 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4001 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4002 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4003 the routers could not see them.
4005 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4006 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4008 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4009 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4012 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4013 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4014 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4015 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4016 that needed quoting.
4018 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4019 was not being matched caselessly.
4021 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4024 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4025 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4026 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4027 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4028 when use_sender is false.
4030 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4032 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4034 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4036 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4037 the configuration file.
4039 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4040 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4042 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4044 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4045 bytes in the message body.
4047 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4048 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4051 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4053 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4055 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4056 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4057 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4058 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4065 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4066 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4068 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4069 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4070 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4071 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4072 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4074 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4075 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4077 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4078 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4079 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4081 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4082 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4083 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4085 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4088 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4089 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4090 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4091 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4092 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4093 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4094 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4100 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4101 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4102 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4103 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4104 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4105 default (and expected) setting.
4107 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4108 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4109 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4110 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4112 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4113 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4115 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4118 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4119 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4120 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4121 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4122 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4123 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4125 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4126 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4127 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4129 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4130 part (NOT match_host).
4132 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4134 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4135 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4136 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4137 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4138 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4139 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4140 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4141 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4142 the same named file.
4144 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4145 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4148 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4149 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4150 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4151 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4154 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4155 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4156 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4158 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4160 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4162 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4164 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4165 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4167 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4168 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4169 before starting the TLS session.
4171 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4173 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4174 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4176 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4177 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4178 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4179 colon in the middle).
4185 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4186 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4187 multiple configurations are in use.
4189 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4190 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4191 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4192 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4193 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4194 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4196 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4197 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4199 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4200 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4201 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4203 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4204 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4207 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4208 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4210 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4212 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4213 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4215 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4223 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4224 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4225 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4226 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4227 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4229 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4232 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4233 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4234 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4235 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4236 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4237 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4239 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4240 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4241 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4242 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4243 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4244 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4245 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4248 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4249 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4250 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4251 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4252 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4254 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4256 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4257 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4258 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4260 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4262 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4263 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4264 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4267 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4268 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4270 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4271 Three changes have been made:
4273 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4274 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4275 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4276 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4277 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4279 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4282 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4283 the modified behaviour.
4289 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4292 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4293 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4295 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4296 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4297 try to track down a specific problem.
4299 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4300 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4301 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4303 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4306 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4307 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4308 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4309 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4310 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4311 some earlier ones do not.
4313 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4315 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4316 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4317 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4318 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4319 address literals are enabled, of course).
4321 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4323 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4324 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4325 by a command such as
4329 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4331 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4333 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4334 remained set. It is now erased.
4336 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4337 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4339 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4340 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4341 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4342 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4343 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4344 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4345 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4346 appropriate error code.
4348 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4349 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4350 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4351 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4352 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4353 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4355 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4356 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4357 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4359 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4360 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4361 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4362 terminate the header.
4364 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4365 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4366 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4368 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4369 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4370 (4.30/29). In particular:
4372 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4375 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4376 to write a maildirsize file.
4378 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4379 the transport, the new value overrides.
4381 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4384 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4385 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4386 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4389 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4390 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4391 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4394 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4395 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4396 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4398 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4399 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4402 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4403 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4404 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4406 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4408 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4410 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4412 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4413 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4416 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4417 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4418 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4419 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4420 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4421 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4422 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4425 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4426 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4427 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4428 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4429 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4432 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4433 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4434 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4435 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4436 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4437 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4438 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4439 cached value only when the same options are set.
4441 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4443 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4444 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4445 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4446 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4447 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4449 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4450 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4451 it is clearly obsolete.
4453 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4456 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4457 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4458 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4461 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4462 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4463 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4464 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4465 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4467 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4468 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4469 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4470 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4472 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4474 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4476 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4477 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4480 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4481 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4482 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4483 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4484 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4485 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4488 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4489 with the -f command-line option.
4491 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4492 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4493 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4494 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4495 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4496 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4498 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4499 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4502 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4503 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4504 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4505 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4506 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4507 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4508 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4509 buffer is too small.
4511 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4512 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4514 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4515 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4516 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4517 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4518 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4519 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4520 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4521 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4522 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4524 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4525 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4526 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4528 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4529 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4532 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4533 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4534 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4535 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4536 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4538 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4539 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4540 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4541 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4544 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4546 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4548 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4549 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4551 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4552 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4553 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4555 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4556 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4557 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4558 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4559 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4561 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4562 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4563 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4564 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4565 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4566 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4567 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4569 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4570 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4571 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4572 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4573 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4574 the test of how many are available.
4576 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4577 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4578 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4579 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4580 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4581 new message is started.
4583 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4584 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4586 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4587 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4589 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4590 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4591 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4594 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4595 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4596 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4597 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4598 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4599 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4600 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4602 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4603 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4604 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4605 interpreted as octal.
4607 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4610 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4611 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4612 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4613 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4614 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4615 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4617 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4618 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4619 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4620 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4622 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4623 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4624 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4625 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4627 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4628 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4631 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4632 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4634 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4636 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4637 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4638 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4639 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4641 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4642 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4643 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4644 supplied", which is not helpful.
4646 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4647 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4648 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4650 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4651 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4652 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4653 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4654 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4655 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4656 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4657 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4659 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4660 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4661 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4662 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4663 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4665 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4666 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4667 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4668 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4669 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4670 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4672 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4673 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4674 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4676 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4678 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4679 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4680 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4683 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4685 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4686 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4687 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4688 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4689 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4690 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4691 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4692 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4694 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4695 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4696 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4697 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4698 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4700 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4703 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4704 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4705 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4706 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4707 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4708 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4709 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4710 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4711 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4717 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4718 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4719 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4721 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4724 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4725 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4726 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4728 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4729 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4730 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4731 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4732 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4733 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4735 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4736 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4737 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4738 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4739 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4740 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4741 the Exim test suite.
4743 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4744 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4745 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4746 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4748 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4749 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4750 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4751 specify it in this variable.
4753 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4754 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4755 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4756 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4758 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4759 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4760 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4761 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4763 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4764 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4765 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4766 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4767 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4769 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4771 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4774 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4775 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4776 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4777 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4778 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4780 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4781 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4783 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4784 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4785 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4786 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4787 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4789 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4790 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4792 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4793 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4794 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4796 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4797 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4799 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4800 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4802 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4803 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4804 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4806 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4807 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4809 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4810 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4811 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4812 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4814 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4816 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4817 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4818 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4819 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4821 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4823 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4824 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4826 25. Added .include_if_exists.
4828 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4829 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4830 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4831 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4832 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4833 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4835 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4837 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4838 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4841 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4843 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4844 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4846 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4847 550 Sender verify failed
4849 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4850 the final line of the response.
4852 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4853 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4854 all other user lookups.
4856 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4859 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4860 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4861 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4862 result into an int without checking.
4864 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4865 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4866 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4868 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4869 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4870 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4871 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4873 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4876 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4877 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4879 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4880 to the empty sender.
4882 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4883 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4884 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4885 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4886 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4887 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4888 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4891 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4892 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4893 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4894 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4897 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4898 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4900 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4903 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4904 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4906 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4908 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4909 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4912 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4913 as soon as it is encountered.
4915 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4917 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4920 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4921 recognizes a tab character.
4923 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4924 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4925 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4926 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4928 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4930 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4933 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4935 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4937 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4938 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4941 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4942 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4943 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4944 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4945 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4947 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4948 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4950 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4951 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4952 list (.included file names were always shown).
4954 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4955 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4956 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4959 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4960 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4962 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4964 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4966 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4968 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4969 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4970 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4971 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4972 failures to open the logs.
4974 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4975 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4976 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4977 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4978 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4979 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4980 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4986 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4987 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4988 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4991 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4992 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4993 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4995 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4996 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4997 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4999 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5000 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5001 causing some misleading effects.
5003 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5004 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5005 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5007 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5008 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5009 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5010 queue-runner function directly.
5016 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5019 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5020 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5021 was always written to the default place.
5023 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5024 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5025 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5027 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5029 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5031 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5032 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5033 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5035 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5036 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5039 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5040 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5041 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5043 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5044 command line option is disabled.
5046 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5047 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5049 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5051 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5053 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5054 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5056 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5058 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5059 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5060 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5061 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5062 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5063 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5065 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5066 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5069 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5070 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5072 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5073 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5075 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5076 received was valid base64.
5078 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5079 name of the variable that was being set.
5081 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5083 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5084 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5085 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5086 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5087 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5088 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5090 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5092 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5093 nor realm was specified.
5095 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5096 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5097 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5098 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5100 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5101 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5102 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5104 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5105 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5106 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5108 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5109 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5110 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5111 some systems use these upper case variants.
5113 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5114 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5115 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5116 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5118 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5120 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5121 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5123 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5124 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5127 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5129 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5130 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5131 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5132 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5134 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5137 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5138 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5139 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5141 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5142 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5144 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5145 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5146 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5147 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5149 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5150 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5151 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5153 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5155 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5156 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5157 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5158 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5161 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5162 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5163 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5165 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5167 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5168 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5170 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5171 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5173 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5174 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5175 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5176 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5177 when emails are that large.
5184 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5185 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5187 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5188 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5189 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5191 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5192 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5193 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5195 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5196 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5197 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5198 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5199 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5201 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5202 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5203 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5204 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5205 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5208 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5209 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5210 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5211 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5212 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5213 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5214 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5215 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5216 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5217 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5218 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5219 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5220 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5221 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5223 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5224 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5227 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5228 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5229 error should be diagnosed.
5231 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5232 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5233 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5234 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5235 appeared instead of "NULL".
5237 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5238 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5239 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5240 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5241 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5242 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5245 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5246 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5247 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5253 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5254 or receiver verification errors.
5256 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5259 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5260 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5261 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5262 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5264 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5265 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5266 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5267 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5268 shouldn't happen again.
5270 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5271 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5272 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5274 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5275 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5277 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5279 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5280 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5282 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5283 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5286 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5287 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5288 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5290 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5291 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5292 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5293 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5295 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5296 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5297 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5298 to define what should happen).
5300 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5301 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5302 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5304 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5306 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5308 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5309 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5311 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5312 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5313 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5314 structure in all cases.
5316 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5317 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5318 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5319 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5321 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5322 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5325 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5326 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5328 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5329 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5331 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5332 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5333 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5335 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5336 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5337 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5339 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5340 the book and for uniformity.
5342 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5344 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5345 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5346 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5347 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5348 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5349 non-existent command as the problem.
5351 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5352 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5353 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5355 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5357 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5358 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5359 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5361 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5362 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5363 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5364 timestamps using strftime().
5366 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5367 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5369 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5370 transport-time rewrites.
5372 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5373 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5374 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5375 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5377 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5378 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5380 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5381 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5382 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5383 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5386 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5387 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5388 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5389 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5390 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5391 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5392 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5394 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5395 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5396 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5397 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5398 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5400 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5401 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5402 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5403 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5404 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5405 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5406 remaining text gets split now.
5408 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5409 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5410 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5411 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5413 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5414 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5415 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5416 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5419 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5420 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5421 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5422 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5423 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5424 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5425 passed through if needed.
5427 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5428 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5429 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5430 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5431 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5432 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5434 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5435 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5436 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5437 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5438 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5440 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5441 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5442 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5443 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5444 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5446 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5447 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5450 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5451 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5452 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5453 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5454 mayhem of various kinds.
5456 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5457 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5458 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5459 the right test for positive values.
5461 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5462 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5463 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5464 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5465 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5466 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5467 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5468 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5469 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5470 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5473 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5476 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5477 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5480 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5481 the existing equality matching.
5483 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5484 dealing with inode numbers.
5486 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5487 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5488 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5490 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5491 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5492 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5493 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5496 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5497 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5498 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5499 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5500 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5501 relay addresses has also been removed.
5503 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5505 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5506 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5507 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5509 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5510 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5511 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5512 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5513 processing applies to CR:
5515 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5516 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5518 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5519 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5520 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5521 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5523 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5524 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5525 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5527 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5528 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5529 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5530 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5531 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5532 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5535 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5538 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5539 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5540 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5541 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5544 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5546 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5548 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5550 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5551 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5552 not considered personal.
5554 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5556 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5558 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5560 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5561 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5562 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5563 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5564 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5565 header lines, and spool format errors.
5567 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5568 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5569 for more flexibility.
5571 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5572 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5573 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5575 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5578 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5579 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5580 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5581 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5582 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5583 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5584 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5585 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5586 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5588 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5589 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5590 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5591 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5592 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5593 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5594 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5596 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5597 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5598 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5600 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5601 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5602 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5603 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5604 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5605 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5606 instead of killing the process with assert().
5608 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5609 than Unicode encoding.
5611 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5612 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5613 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5614 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5616 77. Added process_log_path.
5618 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5619 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5621 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5622 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5624 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5625 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5626 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5628 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5629 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5630 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5631 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5632 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5635 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5636 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5639 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5640 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5641 they will be used during message reception.
5647 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.