1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.314 2006/02/28 11:25:40 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
10 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
11 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
12 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
13 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
14 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
17 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
18 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
20 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
22 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
23 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
24 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
25 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
26 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
29 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
30 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
32 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
33 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
34 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
35 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
36 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
38 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
39 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
40 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
41 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
43 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
44 be the same on different OS.
46 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
49 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
50 whether --show-vars was specified or not
52 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
55 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
56 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
57 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
58 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
59 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
60 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
63 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
64 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
67 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
68 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
70 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
71 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
72 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
73 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
75 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
76 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
77 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
78 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
81 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
82 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
83 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
85 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
86 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
87 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
89 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
92 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
93 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
94 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
95 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
96 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
97 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
98 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
99 values from the SRV records were lost.
101 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
102 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
103 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
105 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
106 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
107 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
109 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
110 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
111 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
112 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
113 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
114 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
115 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
116 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
117 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
119 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
120 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
121 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
123 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
124 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
126 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
127 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
128 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
129 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
132 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
133 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
134 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
136 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
137 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
140 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
141 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
142 (for which there is an explicit test).
144 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
146 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
147 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
148 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
149 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
150 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
152 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
153 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
154 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
155 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
157 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
158 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
159 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
161 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
163 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
165 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
166 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
167 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
169 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
170 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
171 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
172 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
173 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
175 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
176 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
177 the message gets confusing).
179 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
180 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
181 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
182 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
184 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
185 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
186 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
187 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
190 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
191 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
192 the different processes.
194 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
196 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
198 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
199 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
201 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
202 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
204 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
205 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
206 messages matching specified criteria.
208 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
210 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
211 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
213 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
214 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
215 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
216 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
217 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
218 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
219 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
220 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
221 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
222 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
224 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
225 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
226 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
228 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
230 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
231 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
232 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
233 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
234 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
235 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
236 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
239 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
240 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
246 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
248 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
249 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
251 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
252 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
253 statements are most likely to be submissions.
255 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
257 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
260 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
263 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
264 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
265 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
268 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
269 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
271 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
272 inside the third argument.
274 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
275 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
278 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
279 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
281 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
282 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
284 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
286 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
287 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
290 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
292 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
293 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
294 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
295 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
296 identical. For example:
298 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
300 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
301 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
302 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
304 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
305 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
306 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
307 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
309 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
310 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
311 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
314 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
316 o fixes some comments
317 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
318 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
319 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
320 and documents the missing references header update
324 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
325 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
328 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
329 Electronic Mail") by including:
331 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
333 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
334 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
335 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
336 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
337 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
339 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
341 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
343 The auto-replied keyword:
345 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
346 message by an automatic process,
348 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
350 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
351 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
353 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
354 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
357 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
358 to the default Received: header definition.
360 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
362 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
363 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
364 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
366 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
367 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
368 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
370 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
371 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
372 and treats the condition as false.
374 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
376 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
377 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
378 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
379 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
380 not changing the active code.
382 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
383 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
385 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
386 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
388 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
391 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
392 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
393 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
394 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
395 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
396 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
397 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
398 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
401 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
402 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
403 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
404 The same fix has been applied.
410 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
411 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
414 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
415 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
417 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
419 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
420 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
421 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
422 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
423 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
425 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
426 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
427 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
428 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
431 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
439 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
440 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
442 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
444 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
446 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
447 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
448 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
450 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
451 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
452 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
454 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
455 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
458 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
459 ${stat: expansion item.
461 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
462 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
464 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
465 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
468 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
470 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
473 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
474 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
476 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
478 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
479 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
480 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
481 the end of the subprocess.
483 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
484 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
485 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
486 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
487 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
489 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
491 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
493 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
494 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
496 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
498 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
500 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
501 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
504 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
506 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
507 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
508 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
510 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
511 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
513 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
514 host errors such as "Connection refused".
516 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
517 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
519 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
520 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
522 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
523 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
524 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
525 contributed by a Radius user.
527 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
528 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
530 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
531 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
533 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
536 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
537 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
540 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
541 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
542 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
543 header lines when this was not necessary.
545 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
547 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
548 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
549 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
552 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
555 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
556 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
557 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
558 return code was incorrect.
560 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
562 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
564 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
566 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
568 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
569 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
570 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
571 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
572 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
575 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
577 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
578 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
579 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
580 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
581 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
582 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
583 which is clearly wrong.
585 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
587 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
588 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
589 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
592 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
593 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
595 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
597 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
598 the "build-* directories that it finds.
600 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
601 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
603 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
604 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
606 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
607 recipients, not senders.
609 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
610 the ratelimit ACL was added.
612 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
614 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
616 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
617 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
618 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
619 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
621 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
623 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
624 clock is set back in time.
626 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
627 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
629 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
630 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
632 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
633 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
636 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
637 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
640 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
643 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
645 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
646 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
647 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
649 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
650 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
651 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
652 helo verification defer as a failure.
654 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
655 actual error message.
661 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
663 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
664 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
665 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
666 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
668 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
670 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
671 can still be requested.
673 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
674 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
675 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
676 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
678 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
679 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
680 circumstances, but probably never did.
682 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
683 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
684 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
687 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
689 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
690 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
692 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
694 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
696 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
697 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
698 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
699 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
700 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
701 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
703 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
704 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
705 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
706 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
707 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
708 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
710 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
711 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
713 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
714 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
716 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
717 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
719 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
721 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
723 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
725 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
727 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
729 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
731 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
733 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
734 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
735 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
737 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
738 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
739 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
740 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
742 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
743 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
744 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
746 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
747 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
748 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
749 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
751 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
752 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
755 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
756 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
757 should work with maildirs and everything.
759 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
760 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
762 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
765 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
766 function for BDB 4.3.
768 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
770 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
771 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
774 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
775 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
776 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
777 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
778 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
779 formatting function string_vformat().
781 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
782 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
783 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
784 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
785 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
786 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
787 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
788 falls back to the previous guessing code."
790 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
791 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
794 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
795 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
797 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
798 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
799 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
800 test. It is now used for both.
802 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
803 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
804 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
805 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
806 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
807 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
809 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
810 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
811 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
814 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
815 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
816 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
818 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
819 experimental DomainKeys support:
821 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
822 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
823 the control was given.
825 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
827 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
829 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
831 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
832 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
833 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
836 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
837 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
838 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
839 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
840 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
841 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
844 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
845 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
846 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
847 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
848 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
849 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
851 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
852 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
853 do -d+all out of habit.
855 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
856 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
859 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
860 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
861 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
862 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
863 record types that Exim uses.
865 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
866 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
867 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
868 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
869 non-existent file that was broken.
871 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
872 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
874 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
875 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
876 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
878 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
880 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
881 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
882 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
883 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
884 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
887 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
888 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
889 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
890 at a slight CPU cost.
892 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
893 as requested by Marc Sherman.
895 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
898 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
900 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
901 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
907 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
908 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
910 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
912 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
914 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
915 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
917 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
918 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
919 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
920 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
921 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
922 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
925 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
926 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
927 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
928 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
931 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
932 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
933 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
934 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
935 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
936 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
937 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
940 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
941 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
943 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
944 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
945 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
946 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
947 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
948 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
950 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
951 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
952 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
953 SMTP commands that take arguments.
955 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
958 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
959 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
961 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
962 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
963 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
964 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
967 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
969 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
970 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
972 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
973 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
974 to what was transported.)
976 TF/01 Added $received_time.
978 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
979 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
980 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
981 spamd_address settings.
983 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
984 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
985 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
986 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
987 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
989 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
991 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
992 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
993 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
994 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
995 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
997 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
998 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1000 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1001 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1002 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1003 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1004 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1005 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1006 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1009 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1010 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1011 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1012 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1013 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1014 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1015 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1018 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1020 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1021 driver and ACL definitions.
1023 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1024 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1026 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1027 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1028 understands it better than I do:
1030 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1031 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1033 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1034 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1035 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1036 => three warnings about OTP not working
1037 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1039 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1040 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1041 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1042 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1044 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1045 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1047 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1048 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1049 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1051 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1052 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1055 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1056 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1059 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1060 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1061 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1063 warn !verify = sender
1064 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1066 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1067 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1069 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1071 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1072 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1074 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1075 nomenclature these days.)
1077 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1078 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1080 PH/30 In these circumstances:
1081 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1082 . First host does not offer TLS;
1083 . First host accepts first address;
1084 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1085 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1086 . Second host accepts second address.
1087 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1088 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1091 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1092 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1093 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1094 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1095 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1097 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1098 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1100 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1101 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
1103 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1104 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1105 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1107 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1108 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1111 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1113 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1114 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1115 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1116 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1117 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1118 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1119 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1121 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1122 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1123 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1124 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1125 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1127 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1128 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1131 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1132 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1133 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1134 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1135 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1136 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1138 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1140 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1141 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1142 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1143 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1144 printable escape sequences.
1146 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1147 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1150 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1151 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1154 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1155 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1156 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1157 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1158 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1160 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1161 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1162 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1164 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1166 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1167 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1170 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1171 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1172 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1173 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1174 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1175 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1176 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1177 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1178 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1181 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1182 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1183 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1184 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1188 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1189 ----------------------------------------
1191 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1192 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1193 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1194 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1195 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1196 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1199 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
1200 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1201 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1202 historical information.
1208 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1210 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
1211 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
1213 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1214 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1217 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1218 filter fails to execute.
1220 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1221 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1222 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1223 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1224 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1226 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1228 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1229 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1230 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1231 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1233 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1234 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1235 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1236 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1237 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1239 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1241 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1243 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1244 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1245 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1246 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1248 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1249 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1250 sender verification.
1252 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1253 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1255 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1257 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1260 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1261 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1263 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1264 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1266 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1267 information about exactly what failed.
1269 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1271 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1272 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1273 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1275 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1276 It is now set to "smtps".
1278 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1279 ignore_target_hosts.
1281 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1282 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1283 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1284 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1287 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1288 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1289 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1291 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1292 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1293 wake it up if nothing else does.
1295 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1296 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1297 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1300 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1301 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1303 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1305 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1306 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1307 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1308 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1309 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1310 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1311 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1312 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1314 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1315 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1316 than one IP address.
1318 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1319 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1320 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1321 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1323 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1324 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1325 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1326 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1327 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1330 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1331 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
1332 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
1333 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
1335 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1336 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1339 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1340 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1341 $sender_host_address.
1343 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
1344 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
1345 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
1346 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
1347 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
1350 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
1352 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
1353 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
1355 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
1356 just the host names, not the priorities.
1358 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
1359 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
1360 controlled by a keyword.
1362 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
1363 multiple records are returned.
1365 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
1366 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
1369 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
1371 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
1372 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
1374 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1375 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1376 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1378 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
1380 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
1382 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
1384 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1385 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1386 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1387 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1388 because the tests only now provoked it.
1390 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1391 (this can affect the format of dates).
1393 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1394 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1395 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1396 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1398 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
1400 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1401 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1402 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1403 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1405 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1406 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1407 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1409 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1412 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1413 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1414 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1415 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1416 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1417 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1420 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
1421 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
1422 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
1425 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
1426 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
1427 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
1429 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
1430 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
1431 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
1432 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
1433 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
1434 so I produce this patch..."
1436 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
1437 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
1440 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1441 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1442 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1443 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1446 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
1448 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
1449 long debug lines gets shown.
1451 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
1452 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
1454 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
1456 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
1457 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
1458 of $primary_hostname.
1460 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1461 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1462 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1463 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1464 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1465 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1466 by change 4.50/55 above.
1468 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1469 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1470 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1471 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1472 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1473 running as the user.
1476 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1477 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1478 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1481 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
1482 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
1484 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1485 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1486 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1487 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1488 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1490 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
1491 This has been fixed.
1493 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1494 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1495 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1496 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1499 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
1501 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
1502 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
1503 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
1504 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
1506 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
1507 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
1509 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
1510 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
1511 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
1513 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
1514 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
1515 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
1518 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
1519 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
1520 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
1522 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
1523 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1524 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1525 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1527 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1528 during host lookups.
1530 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1531 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1533 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1535 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1536 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1537 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1538 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1539 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1542 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1543 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1545 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1546 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1547 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1549 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1551 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1552 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1553 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1554 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1555 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1556 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1559 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1560 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1561 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1562 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1563 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1565 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1568 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1570 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1571 "vacation" handling.
1573 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1574 OS variants using glibc.
1576 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1579 ----------------------------------------------------
1580 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1581 ----------------------------------------------------
1587 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1588 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1591 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1592 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1595 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1596 filter fails to execute.
1598 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1599 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1600 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1601 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1602 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1604 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1605 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1606 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1607 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1609 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1610 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1611 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1612 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1613 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1615 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1617 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1618 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1619 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1620 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1622 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1623 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1624 sender verification.
1626 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1627 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1629 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1630 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1632 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1633 ignore_target_hosts.
1635 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1636 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1637 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1638 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1641 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1642 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1643 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1645 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1646 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1647 wake it up if nothing else does.
1649 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1650 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1651 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1654 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1655 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1657 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
1659 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1660 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1663 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1664 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1667 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1668 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1669 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1670 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1671 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1674 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1675 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1678 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1679 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1680 $sender_host_address.
1682 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1684 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1685 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1686 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1688 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
1691 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1692 (this can affect the format of dates).
1694 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1695 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1696 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1697 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1699 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1700 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1701 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1703 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1704 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1705 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1706 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1708 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1709 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1710 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1712 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1715 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1716 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1717 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1718 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1719 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1720 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1723 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1724 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1725 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1726 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1729 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1730 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1731 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1732 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1733 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1734 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1735 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1737 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1738 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1739 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1740 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1741 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1742 running as the user.
1745 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1746 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1747 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1750 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1751 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1752 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1753 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1754 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1756 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1757 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1758 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1759 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1762 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1763 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1764 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1765 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1766 because the tests only now provoked it.
1772 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1773 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1774 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1775 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1776 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1777 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1778 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1780 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1781 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1784 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1786 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1788 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1789 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1792 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1793 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1794 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1795 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1796 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1798 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1799 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1801 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1803 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1805 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1808 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1809 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1811 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1812 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1813 affecting debugging statements).
1815 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1817 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1818 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1819 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1820 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1821 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1822 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1823 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1824 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1825 after the received time, and all would be well.
1827 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1828 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1829 condition in an expansion string.
1831 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1833 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1834 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1835 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1836 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1837 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1838 job under whatever limits there are.
1840 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1842 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1845 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1846 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1847 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1848 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1851 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1852 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1853 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1854 binary data in such strings.
1856 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1858 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1859 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1860 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1861 failure, which is pointless.
1863 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1865 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1867 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1868 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1869 Sender: header lines.
1871 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1872 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1873 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1875 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1876 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1877 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1878 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1879 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1882 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1883 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1884 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1885 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1886 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1888 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1889 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1890 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1893 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1894 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1896 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1897 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1899 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1901 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1903 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1905 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1908 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1910 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1912 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1913 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1914 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1915 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1917 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1918 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1924 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1925 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1926 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1928 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1929 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1930 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1931 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1932 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1933 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1935 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1936 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1937 verification failure".
1939 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1940 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1941 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1942 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1944 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1945 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1946 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1947 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1948 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1949 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1950 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1951 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1952 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1953 treated as a timeout.
1955 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1956 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1957 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1958 not set for Exim filters).
1960 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1961 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1962 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1964 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1966 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1967 try to make them clearer.
1969 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1970 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1972 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1974 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1976 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1977 only the Cygwin environment.
1979 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1980 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1981 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1982 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1983 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1985 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1986 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1987 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1988 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1989 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1990 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1991 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1993 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1994 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1996 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1998 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1999 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2000 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2002 To: susanne@some.where
2004 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2005 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2006 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2007 of addresses in From: header lines).
2009 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2010 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2011 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2013 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2014 treated as non-personal.
2016 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2017 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2019 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2021 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2023 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2024 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2025 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2027 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2028 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2030 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2031 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2032 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2033 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2034 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2035 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2037 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2038 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2039 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2040 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2041 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2042 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2043 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2044 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2046 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2048 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2049 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2051 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2052 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2053 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2055 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2056 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2058 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2059 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2060 rather than long int.
2062 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2064 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2070 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2071 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2072 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2073 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2074 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2075 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2081 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2082 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2084 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2085 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2086 socklen_t is defined.
2088 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2091 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2094 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2095 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2096 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2097 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2098 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2100 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2101 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2102 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2103 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2105 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2106 of flapping under certain conditions.
2108 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2109 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2110 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2112 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2114 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2116 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2117 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2118 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2119 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2121 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2122 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2123 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2124 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2125 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2126 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2127 preserved with the message after it was received.
2129 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2130 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2131 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2132 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2133 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2134 test suite worked just fine.
2136 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2137 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2138 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2140 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2141 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2144 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2145 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2146 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2147 does not fully solve it.
2149 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2150 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2151 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2152 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2153 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2155 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2156 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2157 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2159 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2160 string, for example:
2162 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2164 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2165 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2166 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2167 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2168 the routers could not see them.
2170 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2171 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2173 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2174 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2177 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2178 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2179 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2180 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2181 that needed quoting.
2183 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2184 was not being matched caselessly.
2186 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2189 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2190 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2191 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2192 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2193 when use_sender is false.
2195 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2197 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2199 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2201 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2202 the configuration file.
2204 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2205 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2207 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2209 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2210 bytes in the message body.
2212 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2213 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2216 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2218 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2220 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2221 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2222 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2223 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2230 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2231 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2233 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2234 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2235 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2236 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2237 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2239 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2240 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2242 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2243 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2244 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2246 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2247 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2248 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2250 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2253 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2254 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2255 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2256 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2257 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2258 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2259 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2265 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2266 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2267 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2268 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2269 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2270 default (and expected) setting.
2272 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2273 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2274 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2275 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2277 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2278 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2280 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2283 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2284 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2285 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2286 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2287 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2288 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2290 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2291 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2292 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2294 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2295 part (NOT match_host).
2297 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2299 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2300 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2301 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2302 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2303 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2304 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2305 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2306 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2307 the same named file.
2309 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2310 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2313 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2314 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2315 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2316 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2319 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2320 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2321 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2323 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2325 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2327 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2329 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2330 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2332 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
2333 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
2334 before starting the TLS session.
2336 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
2338 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
2339 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
2341 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
2342 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
2343 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
2344 colon in the middle).
2350 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
2351 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
2352 multiple configurations are in use.
2354 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
2355 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
2356 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
2357 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
2358 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
2359 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
2361 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
2362 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
2364 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
2365 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
2366 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
2368 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
2369 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
2372 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
2373 that used bh_ and bheader_.
2375 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
2377 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
2378 allowing one more file than it should have been.
2380 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
2388 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
2389 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
2390 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
2391 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
2392 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
2394 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
2397 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
2398 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
2399 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
2400 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
2401 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
2402 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
2404 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
2405 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
2406 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
2407 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
2408 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
2409 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
2410 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
2413 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
2414 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
2415 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
2416 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
2417 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
2419 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
2421 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
2422 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
2423 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
2425 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
2427 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
2428 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
2429 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
2432 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
2433 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
2435 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
2436 Three changes have been made:
2438 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
2439 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
2440 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
2441 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
2442 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
2444 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
2447 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
2448 the modified behaviour.
2454 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
2457 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
2458 indeed breaks things for older releases.
2460 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
2461 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
2462 try to track down a specific problem.
2464 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
2465 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
2466 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
2468 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
2471 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
2472 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
2473 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
2474 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
2475 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
2476 some earlier ones do not.
2478 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
2480 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
2481 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
2482 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2483 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
2484 address literals are enabled, of course).
2486 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
2488 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
2489 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
2490 by a command such as
2494 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
2496 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
2498 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
2499 remained set. It is now erased.
2501 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
2502 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
2504 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
2505 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
2506 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
2507 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
2508 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
2509 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
2510 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
2511 appropriate error code.
2513 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
2514 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
2515 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
2516 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
2517 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
2518 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
2520 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
2521 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
2522 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2524 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2525 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2526 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2527 terminate the header.
2529 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2530 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2531 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2533 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2534 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2535 (4.30/29). In particular:
2537 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2540 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2541 to write a maildirsize file.
2543 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2544 the transport, the new value overrides.
2546 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2549 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2550 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2551 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2554 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2555 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2556 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2559 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2560 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2561 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2563 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2564 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2567 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2568 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2569 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2571 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2573 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2575 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2577 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2578 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2581 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2582 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2583 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2584 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2585 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2586 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2587 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2590 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2591 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2592 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2593 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2594 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2597 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2598 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2599 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2600 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2601 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2602 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2603 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2604 cached value only when the same options are set.
2606 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2608 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2609 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2610 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2611 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2612 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2614 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2615 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2616 it is clearly obsolete.
2618 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2621 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2622 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2623 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2626 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2627 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2628 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2629 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2630 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2632 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2633 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2634 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2635 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2637 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2639 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2641 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2642 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2645 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2646 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2647 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2648 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2649 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2650 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2653 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2654 with the -f command-line option.
2656 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2657 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2658 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2659 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2660 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2661 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2663 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2664 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2667 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2668 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2669 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2670 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2671 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2672 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2673 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2674 buffer is too small.
2676 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2677 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2679 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2680 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2681 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2682 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2683 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2684 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2685 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2686 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2687 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2689 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2690 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2691 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2693 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2694 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2697 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2698 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2699 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2700 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2701 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2703 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2704 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2705 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2706 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2709 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2711 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2713 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2714 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2716 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2717 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2718 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2720 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2721 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2722 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2723 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2724 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2726 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2727 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2728 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2729 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2730 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2731 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2732 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2734 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2735 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2736 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2737 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2738 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2739 the test of how many are available.
2741 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2742 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2743 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2744 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2745 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2746 new message is started.
2748 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2749 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2751 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2752 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2754 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2755 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2756 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2759 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2760 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2761 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2762 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2763 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2764 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2765 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2767 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2768 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2769 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2770 interpreted as octal.
2772 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2775 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2776 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2777 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2778 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2779 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2780 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2782 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2783 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2784 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2785 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2787 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2788 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2789 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2790 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2792 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2793 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2796 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2797 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2799 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2801 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2802 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2803 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2804 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2806 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2807 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2808 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2809 supplied", which is not helpful.
2811 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2812 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2813 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2815 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2816 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2817 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2818 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2819 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2820 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2821 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2822 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2824 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2825 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2826 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2827 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2828 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2830 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2831 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2832 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2833 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2834 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2835 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2837 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2838 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2839 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2841 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2843 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2844 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2845 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2848 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2850 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2851 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2852 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2853 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2854 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2855 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2856 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2857 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2859 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2860 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2861 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2862 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2863 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2865 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2868 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2869 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2870 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2871 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2872 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2873 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2874 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2875 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2876 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2882 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2883 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2884 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2886 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2889 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2890 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2891 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2893 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2894 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2895 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2896 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2897 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2898 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2900 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2901 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2902 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2903 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2904 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2905 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2906 the Exim test suite.
2908 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2909 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2910 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2911 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2913 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2914 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2915 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2916 specify it in this variable.
2918 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2919 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2920 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2921 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2923 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2924 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2925 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2926 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2928 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2929 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2930 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2931 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2932 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2934 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2936 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2939 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2940 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2941 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2942 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2943 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2945 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2946 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2948 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2949 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2950 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2951 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2952 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2954 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2955 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2957 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2958 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2959 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2961 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2962 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2964 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2965 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2967 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2968 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2969 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2971 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2972 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2974 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2975 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2976 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2977 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2979 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2981 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2982 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2983 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2984 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2986 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2988 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2989 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2991 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2993 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2994 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2995 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2996 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2997 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2998 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3000 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3002 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3003 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3006 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3008 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3009 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3011 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3012 550 Sender verify failed
3014 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3015 the final line of the response.
3017 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3018 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3019 all other user lookups.
3021 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3024 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3025 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3026 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3027 result into an int without checking.
3029 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3030 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3031 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3033 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3034 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3035 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3036 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3038 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3041 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3042 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3044 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3045 to the empty sender.
3047 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3048 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3049 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3050 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3051 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3052 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3053 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3056 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3057 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3058 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3059 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3062 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3063 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3065 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3068 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3069 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3071 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3073 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3074 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3077 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3078 as soon as it is encountered.
3080 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3082 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3085 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3086 recognizes a tab character.
3088 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3089 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3090 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3091 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3093 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3095 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3098 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3100 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3102 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3103 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3106 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3107 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3108 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3109 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3110 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3112 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3113 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3115 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3116 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3117 list (.included file names were always shown).
3119 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3120 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3121 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3124 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3125 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3127 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3129 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3131 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3133 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3134 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3135 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3136 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3137 failures to open the logs.
3139 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3140 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3141 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3142 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3143 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3144 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3145 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3151 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3152 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3153 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3156 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3157 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3158 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3160 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3161 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3162 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3164 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3165 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3166 causing some misleading effects.
3168 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3169 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3170 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3172 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3173 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3174 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3175 queue-runner function directly.
3181 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3184 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3185 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3186 was always written to the default place.
3188 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3189 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3190 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3192 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3194 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3196 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3197 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3198 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3200 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3201 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3204 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3205 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3206 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3208 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3209 command line option is disabled.
3211 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3212 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3214 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3216 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3218 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3219 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3221 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3223 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3224 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3225 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3226 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3227 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3228 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3230 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3231 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3234 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3235 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3237 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3238 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3240 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3241 received was valid base64.
3243 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3244 name of the variable that was being set.
3246 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3248 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3249 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3250 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3251 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3252 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3253 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3255 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3257 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3258 nor realm was specified.
3260 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3261 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3262 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3263 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3265 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3266 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3267 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3269 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3270 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3271 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3273 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3274 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3275 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3276 some systems use these upper case variants.
3278 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3279 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3280 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3281 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3283 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3285 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3286 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3288 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3289 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3292 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3294 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3295 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3296 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3297 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3299 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3302 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3303 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3304 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3306 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3307 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3309 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3310 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3311 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3312 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3314 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3315 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3316 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3318 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3320 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3321 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3322 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3323 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3326 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3327 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3328 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3330 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
3332 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
3333 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
3335 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
3336 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
3338 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
3339 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
3340 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
3341 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
3342 when emails are that large.
3349 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
3350 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
3352 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
3353 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
3354 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
3356 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
3357 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
3358 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
3360 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
3361 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
3362 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
3363 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
3364 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
3366 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
3367 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
3368 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
3369 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
3370 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
3373 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
3374 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
3375 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
3376 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
3377 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
3378 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
3379 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
3380 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
3381 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
3382 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
3383 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
3384 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
3385 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
3386 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
3388 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
3389 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
3392 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
3393 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
3394 error should be diagnosed.
3396 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
3397 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
3398 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
3399 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
3400 appeared instead of "NULL".
3402 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
3403 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
3404 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
3405 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
3406 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
3407 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
3410 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
3411 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
3412 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
3418 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
3419 or receiver verification errors.
3421 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
3424 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
3425 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
3426 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
3427 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
3429 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
3430 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
3431 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
3432 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
3433 shouldn't happen again.
3435 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
3436 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
3437 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
3439 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
3440 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
3442 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
3444 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
3445 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
3447 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
3448 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
3451 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
3452 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
3453 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
3455 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
3456 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
3457 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
3458 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
3460 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
3461 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
3462 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
3463 to define what should happen).
3465 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
3466 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
3467 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
3469 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
3471 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
3473 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
3474 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
3476 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
3477 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
3478 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
3479 structure in all cases.
3481 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
3482 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
3483 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
3484 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
3486 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
3487 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
3490 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
3491 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
3493 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
3494 MD5 (which is deprecated).
3496 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
3497 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
3498 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
3500 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
3501 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
3502 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
3504 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
3505 the book and for uniformity.
3507 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
3509 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
3510 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
3511 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
3512 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
3513 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
3514 non-existent command as the problem.
3516 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
3517 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
3518 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
3520 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
3522 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
3523 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3524 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3526 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3527 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3528 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3529 timestamps using strftime().
3531 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3532 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3534 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3535 transport-time rewrites.
3537 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3538 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3539 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3540 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3542 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3543 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3545 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3546 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3547 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3548 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3551 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3552 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3553 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3554 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3555 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3556 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3557 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3559 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3560 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3561 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3562 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3563 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3565 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3566 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3567 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3568 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3569 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3570 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3571 remaining text gets split now.
3573 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3574 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3575 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3576 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3578 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3579 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3580 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3581 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3584 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3585 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3586 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3587 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3588 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3589 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3590 passed through if needed.
3592 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3593 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3594 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3595 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3596 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3597 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3599 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3600 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3601 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3602 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3603 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3605 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3606 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3607 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3608 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3609 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3611 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3612 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3615 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3616 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3617 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3618 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3619 mayhem of various kinds.
3621 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3622 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3623 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3624 the right test for positive values.
3626 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3627 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3628 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3629 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3630 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3631 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3632 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3633 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3634 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3635 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3638 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3641 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3642 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3645 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3646 the existing equality matching.
3648 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3649 dealing with inode numbers.
3651 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3652 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3653 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3655 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3656 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3657 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3658 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3661 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3662 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3663 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3664 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3665 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3666 relay addresses has also been removed.
3668 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3670 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3671 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3672 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3674 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3675 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3676 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3677 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3678 processing applies to CR:
3680 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3681 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3683 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3684 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3685 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3686 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3688 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3689 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3690 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3692 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3693 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3694 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3695 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3696 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3697 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3700 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3703 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3704 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3705 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3706 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3709 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3711 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3713 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3715 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3716 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3717 not considered personal.
3719 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3721 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3723 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3725 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3726 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3727 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3728 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3729 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3730 header lines, and spool format errors.
3732 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3733 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3734 for more flexibility.
3736 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3737 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3738 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3740 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3743 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3744 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3745 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3746 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3747 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3748 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3749 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3750 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3751 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3753 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3754 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3755 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3756 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3757 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3758 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3759 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3761 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3762 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3763 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3765 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3766 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3767 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3768 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3769 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3770 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3771 instead of killing the process with assert().
3773 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3774 than Unicode encoding.
3776 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3777 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3778 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3779 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3781 77. Added process_log_path.
3783 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3784 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3786 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3787 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3789 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3790 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3791 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3793 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3794 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3795 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3796 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3797 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3800 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3801 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3804 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3805 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3806 they will be used during message reception.
3812 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.