1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.163 2005/06/17 13:52:14 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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10 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
12 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
13 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
14 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
15 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
17 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
19 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
20 can still be requested.
22 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
23 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
24 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
25 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
27 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
28 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
29 circumstances, but probably never did.
31 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
32 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
33 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
36 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
38 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
39 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
41 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
43 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
45 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
46 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
47 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
48 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
49 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
50 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
52 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
53 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
54 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
55 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
56 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
57 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
59 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
60 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
62 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
63 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
65 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
66 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
68 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
70 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
72 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
74 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
76 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
78 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
80 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
82 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
83 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
84 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
86 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
87 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
88 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
89 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
91 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
92 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
93 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
95 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
96 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
97 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
98 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
100 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
101 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
104 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
105 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
106 should work with maildirs and everything.
108 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
109 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
111 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
114 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
115 function for BDB 4.3.
117 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
119 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
120 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
123 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
124 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
125 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
126 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
127 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
128 formatting function string_vformat().
130 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
131 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
132 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
133 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
134 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
135 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
136 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
137 falls back to the previous guessing code."
139 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
140 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
143 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
144 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
146 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
147 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
148 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
149 test. It is now used for both.
151 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
152 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
153 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
154 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
155 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
156 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
158 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
159 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
160 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
167 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
168 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
170 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
172 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
174 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
175 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
177 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
178 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
179 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
180 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
181 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
182 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
185 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
186 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
187 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
188 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
191 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
192 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
193 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
194 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
195 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
196 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
197 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
200 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
201 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
203 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
204 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
205 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
206 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
207 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
208 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
210 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
211 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
212 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
213 SMTP commands that take arguments.
215 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
218 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
219 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
221 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
222 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
223 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
224 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
227 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
229 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
230 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
232 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
233 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
234 to what was transported.)
236 TF/01 Added $received_time.
238 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
239 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
240 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
241 spamd_address settings.
243 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
244 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
245 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
246 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
247 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
249 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
251 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
252 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
253 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
254 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
255 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
257 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
258 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
260 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
261 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
262 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
263 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
264 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
265 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
266 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
269 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
270 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
271 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
272 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
273 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
274 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
275 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
278 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
280 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
281 driver and ACL definitions.
283 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
284 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
286 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
287 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
288 understands it better than I do:
290 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
291 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
293 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
294 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
295 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
296 => three warnings about OTP not working
297 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
299 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
300 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
301 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
302 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
304 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
305 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
307 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
308 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
309 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
311 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
312 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
315 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
316 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
319 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
320 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
321 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
323 warn !verify = sender
324 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
326 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
327 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
329 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
331 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
332 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
334 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
335 nomenclature these days.)
337 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
338 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
340 PH/30 In these circumstances:
341 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
342 . First host does not offer TLS;
343 . First host accepts first address;
344 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
345 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
346 . Second host accepts second address.
347 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
348 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
351 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
352 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
353 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
354 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
355 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
357 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
358 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
360 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
361 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
363 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
364 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
365 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
367 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
368 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
371 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
373 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
374 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
375 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
376 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
377 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
378 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
379 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
381 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
382 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
383 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
384 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
385 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
387 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
388 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
391 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
392 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
393 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
394 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
395 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
396 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
398 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
400 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
401 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
402 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
403 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
404 printable escape sequences.
406 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
407 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
410 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
411 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
414 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
415 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
416 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
417 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
418 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
420 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
421 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
422 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
424 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
426 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
427 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
430 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
431 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
432 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
433 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
434 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
435 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
436 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
437 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
438 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
441 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
442 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
443 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
444 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
448 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
449 ----------------------------------------
451 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
452 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
453 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
454 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
455 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
456 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
459 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
460 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
461 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
462 historical information.
468 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
470 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
471 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
473 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
474 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
477 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
478 filter fails to execute.
480 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
481 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
482 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
483 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
484 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
486 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
488 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
489 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
490 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
491 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
493 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
494 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
495 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
496 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
497 control that does not make sense is encountered.
499 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
501 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
503 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
504 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
505 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
506 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
508 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
509 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
512 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
513 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
515 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
517 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
520 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
521 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
523 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
524 the spool by the -Mrm option.
526 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
527 information about exactly what failed.
529 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
531 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
532 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
533 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
535 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
536 It is now set to "smtps".
538 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
541 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
542 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
543 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
544 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
547 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
548 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
549 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
551 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
552 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
553 wake it up if nothing else does.
555 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
556 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
557 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
560 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
561 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
563 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
565 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
566 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
567 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
568 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
569 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
570 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
571 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
572 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
574 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
575 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
578 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
579 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
580 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
581 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
583 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
584 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
585 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
586 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
587 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
590 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
591 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
592 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
593 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
595 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
596 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
599 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
600 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
601 $sender_host_address.
603 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
604 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
605 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
606 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
607 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
610 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
612 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
613 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
615 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
616 just the host names, not the priorities.
618 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
619 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
620 controlled by a keyword.
622 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
623 multiple records are returned.
625 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
626 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
629 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
631 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
632 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
634 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
635 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
636 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
638 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
640 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
642 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
644 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
645 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
646 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
647 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
648 because the tests only now provoked it.
650 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
651 (this can affect the format of dates).
653 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
654 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
655 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
656 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
658 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
660 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
661 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
662 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
663 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
665 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
666 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
667 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
669 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
672 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
673 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
674 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
675 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
676 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
677 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
680 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
681 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
682 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
685 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
686 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
687 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
689 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
690 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
691 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
692 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
693 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
694 so I produce this patch..."
696 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
697 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
700 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
701 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
702 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
703 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
706 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
708 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
709 long debug lines gets shown.
711 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
712 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
714 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
716 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
717 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
718 of $primary_hostname.
720 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
721 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
722 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
723 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
724 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
725 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
726 by change 4.50/55 above.
728 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
729 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
730 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
731 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
732 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
736 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
737 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
738 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
741 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
742 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
744 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
745 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
746 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
747 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
748 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
750 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
753 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
754 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
755 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
756 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
759 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
761 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
762 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
763 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
764 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
766 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
767 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
769 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
770 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
771 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
773 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
774 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
775 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
778 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
779 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
780 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
782 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
783 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
784 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
785 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
787 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
790 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
791 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
793 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
795 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
796 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
797 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
798 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
799 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
802 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
803 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
805 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
806 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
807 for the non-SMTP ACL.
809 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
811 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
812 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
813 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
814 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
815 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
816 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
819 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
820 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
821 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
822 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
823 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
825 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
828 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
830 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
833 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
834 OS variants using glibc.
836 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
839 ----------------------------------------------------
840 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
841 ----------------------------------------------------
847 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
848 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
851 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
852 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
855 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
856 filter fails to execute.
858 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
859 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
860 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
861 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
862 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
864 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
865 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
866 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
867 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
869 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
870 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
871 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
872 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
873 control that does not make sense is encountered.
875 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
877 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
878 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
879 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
880 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
882 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
883 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
886 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
887 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
889 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
890 the spool by the -Mrm option.
892 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
895 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
896 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
897 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
898 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
901 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
902 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
903 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
905 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
906 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
907 wake it up if nothing else does.
909 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
910 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
911 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
914 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
915 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
917 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
919 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
920 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
923 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
924 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
927 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
928 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
929 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
930 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
931 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
934 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
935 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
938 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
939 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
940 $sender_host_address.
942 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
944 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
945 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
946 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
948 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
951 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
952 (this can affect the format of dates).
954 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
955 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
956 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
957 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
959 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
960 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
961 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
963 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
964 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
965 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
966 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
968 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
969 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
970 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
972 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
975 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
976 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
977 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
978 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
979 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
980 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
983 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
984 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
985 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
986 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
989 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
990 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
991 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
992 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
993 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
994 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
995 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
997 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
998 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
999 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1000 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1001 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1002 running as the user.
1005 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1006 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1007 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1010 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1011 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1012 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1013 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1014 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1016 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1017 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1018 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1019 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1022 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1023 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1024 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1025 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1026 because the tests only now provoked it.
1032 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1033 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1034 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1035 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1036 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1037 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1038 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1040 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1041 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1044 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1046 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1048 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1049 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1052 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1053 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1054 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1055 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1056 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1058 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1059 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1061 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1063 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1065 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1068 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1069 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1071 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1072 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1073 affecting debugging statements).
1075 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1077 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1078 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1079 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1080 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1081 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1082 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1083 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1084 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1085 after the received time, and all would be well.
1087 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1088 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1089 condition in an expansion string.
1091 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1093 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1094 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1095 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1096 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1097 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1098 job under whatever limits there are.
1100 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1102 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1105 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1106 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1107 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1108 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1111 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1112 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1113 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1114 binary data in such strings.
1116 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1118 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1119 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1120 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1121 failure, which is pointless.
1123 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1125 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1127 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1128 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1129 Sender: header lines.
1131 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1132 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1133 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1135 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1136 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1137 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1138 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1139 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1142 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1143 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1144 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1145 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1146 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1148 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1149 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1150 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1153 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1154 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1156 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1157 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1159 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1161 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1163 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1165 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1168 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1170 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1172 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1173 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1174 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1175 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1177 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1178 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1184 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1185 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1186 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1188 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1189 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1190 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1191 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1192 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1193 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1195 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1196 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1197 verification failure".
1199 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1200 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1201 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1202 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1204 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1205 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1206 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1207 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1208 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1209 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1210 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1211 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1212 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1213 treated as a timeout.
1215 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1216 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1217 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1218 not set for Exim filters).
1220 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1221 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1222 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1224 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1226 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1227 try to make them clearer.
1229 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1230 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1232 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1234 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1236 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1237 only the Cygwin environment.
1239 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1240 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1241 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1242 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1243 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1245 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1246 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1247 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1248 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1249 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1250 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1251 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1253 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1254 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1256 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1258 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1259 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1260 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1262 To: susanne@some.where
1264 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1265 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1266 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1267 of addresses in From: header lines).
1269 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1270 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1271 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1273 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1274 treated as non-personal.
1276 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1277 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1279 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1281 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1283 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1284 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1285 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1287 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1288 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1290 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1291 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1292 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1293 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1294 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1295 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1297 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1298 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1299 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1300 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1301 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1302 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1303 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1304 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1306 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1308 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1309 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1311 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1312 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1313 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1315 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1316 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1318 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1319 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1320 rather than long int.
1322 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1324 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1330 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1331 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1332 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1333 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1334 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1335 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1341 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1342 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1344 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1345 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1346 socklen_t is defined.
1348 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1351 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1354 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1355 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1356 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1357 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1358 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1360 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1361 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1362 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1363 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1365 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1366 of flapping under certain conditions.
1368 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1369 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1370 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1372 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1374 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1376 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1377 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1378 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1379 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1381 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1382 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1383 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1384 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1385 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1386 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1387 preserved with the message after it was received.
1389 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1390 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1391 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1392 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1393 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1394 test suite worked just fine.
1396 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1397 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1398 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1400 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1401 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1404 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1405 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1406 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1407 does not fully solve it.
1409 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1410 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1411 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1412 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1413 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1415 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1416 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1417 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1419 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1420 string, for example:
1422 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1424 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1425 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1426 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1427 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1428 the routers could not see them.
1430 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1431 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1433 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1434 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1437 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1438 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1439 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1440 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1441 that needed quoting.
1443 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1444 was not being matched caselessly.
1446 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1449 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1450 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1451 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1452 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1453 when use_sender is false.
1455 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1457 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1459 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1461 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1462 the configuration file.
1464 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1465 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1467 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1469 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1470 bytes in the message body.
1472 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1473 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1476 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1478 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1480 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1481 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1482 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1483 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1490 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1491 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1493 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1494 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1495 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1496 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1497 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1499 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1500 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1502 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1503 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1504 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1506 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1507 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1508 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1510 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1513 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1514 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1515 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1516 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1517 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1518 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1519 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1525 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1526 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1527 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1528 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1529 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1530 default (and expected) setting.
1532 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1533 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1534 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1535 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1537 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1538 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1540 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1543 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1544 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1545 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1546 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1547 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1548 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1550 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1551 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1552 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1554 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1555 part (NOT match_host).
1557 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1559 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1560 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1561 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1562 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1563 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1564 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1565 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1566 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1567 the same named file.
1569 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1570 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1573 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1574 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1575 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1576 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1579 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1580 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1581 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1583 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1585 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1587 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1589 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1590 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1592 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1593 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1594 before starting the TLS session.
1596 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1598 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1599 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1601 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1602 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1603 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1604 colon in the middle).
1610 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1611 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1612 multiple configurations are in use.
1614 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1615 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1616 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1617 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1618 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1619 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1621 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1622 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1624 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1625 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1626 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1628 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1629 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1632 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1633 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1635 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1637 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1638 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1640 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1648 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1649 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1650 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1651 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1652 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1654 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1657 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1658 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1659 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1660 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1661 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1662 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1664 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1665 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1666 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1667 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1668 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1669 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1670 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1673 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1674 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1675 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1676 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1677 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1679 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1681 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1682 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1683 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1685 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1687 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1688 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1689 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1692 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1693 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1695 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1696 Three changes have been made:
1698 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1699 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1700 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1701 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1702 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1704 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1707 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1708 the modified behaviour.
1714 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1717 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1718 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1720 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1721 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1722 try to track down a specific problem.
1724 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1725 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1726 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1728 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1731 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1732 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1733 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1734 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1735 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1736 some earlier ones do not.
1738 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1740 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1741 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1742 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1743 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1744 address literals are enabled, of course).
1746 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
1748 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
1749 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
1750 by a command such as
1754 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
1756 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
1758 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
1759 remained set. It is now erased.
1761 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
1762 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
1764 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
1765 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
1766 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
1767 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
1768 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
1769 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
1770 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
1771 appropriate error code.
1773 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
1774 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
1775 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
1776 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
1777 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
1778 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
1780 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
1781 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
1782 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
1784 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
1785 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
1786 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
1787 terminate the header.
1789 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
1790 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
1791 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
1793 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
1794 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
1795 (4.30/29). In particular:
1797 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
1800 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
1801 to write a maildirsize file.
1803 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
1804 the transport, the new value overrides.
1806 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
1809 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
1810 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
1811 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
1814 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
1815 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
1816 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
1819 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
1820 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
1821 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
1823 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
1824 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
1827 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
1828 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
1829 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
1831 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
1833 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
1835 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
1837 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
1838 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
1841 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
1842 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
1843 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
1844 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
1845 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
1846 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
1847 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
1850 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
1851 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
1852 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
1853 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
1854 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
1857 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
1858 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
1859 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
1860 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
1861 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
1862 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
1863 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
1864 cached value only when the same options are set.
1866 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
1868 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
1869 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
1870 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
1871 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
1872 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
1874 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
1875 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
1876 it is clearly obsolete.
1878 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
1881 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
1882 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
1883 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
1886 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
1887 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
1888 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
1889 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
1890 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
1892 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
1893 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
1894 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
1895 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
1897 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
1899 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
1901 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
1902 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
1905 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
1906 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
1907 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
1908 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
1909 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
1910 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
1913 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
1914 with the -f command-line option.
1916 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
1917 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
1918 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
1919 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
1920 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
1921 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1923 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
1924 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
1927 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
1928 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
1929 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
1930 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
1931 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
1932 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
1933 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
1934 buffer is too small.
1936 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
1937 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
1939 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
1940 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
1941 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
1942 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
1943 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
1944 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
1945 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
1946 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
1947 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
1949 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
1950 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
1951 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
1953 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
1954 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
1957 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
1958 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
1959 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
1960 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
1961 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
1963 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
1964 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
1965 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
1966 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
1969 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
1971 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
1973 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
1974 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
1976 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
1977 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
1978 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
1980 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
1981 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
1982 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
1983 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
1984 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
1986 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
1987 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
1988 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
1989 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
1990 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
1991 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
1992 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
1994 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
1995 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
1996 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
1997 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
1998 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
1999 the test of how many are available.
2001 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2002 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2003 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2004 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2005 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2006 new message is started.
2008 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2009 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2011 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2012 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2014 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2015 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2016 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2019 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2020 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2021 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2022 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2023 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2024 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2025 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2027 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2028 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2029 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2030 interpreted as octal.
2032 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2035 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2036 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2037 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2038 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2039 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2040 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2042 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2043 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2044 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2045 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2047 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2048 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2049 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2050 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2052 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2053 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2056 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2057 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2059 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2061 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2062 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2063 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2064 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2066 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2067 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2068 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2069 supplied", which is not helpful.
2071 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2072 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2073 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2075 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2076 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2077 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2078 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2079 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2080 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2081 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2082 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2084 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2085 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2086 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2087 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2088 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2090 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2091 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2092 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2093 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2094 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2095 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2097 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2098 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2099 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2101 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2103 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2104 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2105 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2108 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2110 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2111 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2112 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2113 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2114 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2115 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2116 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2117 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2119 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2120 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2121 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2122 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2123 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2125 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2128 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2129 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2130 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2131 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2132 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2133 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2134 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2135 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2136 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2142 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2143 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2144 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2146 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2149 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2150 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2151 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2153 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2154 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2155 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2156 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2157 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2158 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2160 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2161 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2162 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2163 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2164 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2165 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2166 the Exim test suite.
2168 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2169 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2170 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2171 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2173 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2174 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2175 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2176 specify it in this variable.
2178 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2179 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2180 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2181 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2183 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2184 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2185 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2186 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2188 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2189 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2190 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2191 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2192 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2194 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2196 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2199 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2200 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2201 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2202 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2203 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2205 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2206 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2208 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2209 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2210 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2211 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2212 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2214 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2215 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2217 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2218 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2219 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2221 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2222 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2224 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2225 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2227 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2228 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2229 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2231 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2232 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2234 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2235 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2236 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2237 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2239 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2241 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2242 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2243 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2244 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2246 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2248 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2249 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2251 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2253 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2254 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2255 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2256 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2257 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2258 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2260 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2262 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2263 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2266 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2268 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2269 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2271 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2272 550 Sender verify failed
2274 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2275 the final line of the response.
2277 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2278 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2279 all other user lookups.
2281 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2284 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2285 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2286 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2287 result into an int without checking.
2289 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2290 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2291 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2293 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2294 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2295 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2296 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2298 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2301 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2302 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2304 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2305 to the empty sender.
2307 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2308 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2309 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2310 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2311 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2312 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2313 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2316 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2317 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2318 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2319 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2322 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2323 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2325 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2328 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2329 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2331 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2333 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2334 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2337 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2338 as soon as it is encountered.
2340 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2342 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2345 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2346 recognizes a tab character.
2348 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2349 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2350 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2351 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2353 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2355 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2358 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2360 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2362 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2363 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2366 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2367 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2368 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2369 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2370 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2372 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2373 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2375 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2376 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2377 list (.included file names were always shown).
2379 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2380 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2381 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2384 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2385 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2387 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2389 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2391 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2393 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2394 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2395 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2396 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2397 failures to open the logs.
2399 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2400 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2401 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2402 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2403 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2404 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2405 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2411 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2412 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2413 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2416 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2417 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2418 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2420 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2421 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2422 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2424 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2425 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2426 causing some misleading effects.
2428 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2429 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2430 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2432 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2433 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2434 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2435 queue-runner function directly.
2441 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2444 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2445 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2446 was always written to the default place.
2448 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2449 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2450 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2452 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2454 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2456 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2457 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2458 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2460 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2461 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2464 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2465 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2466 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2468 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2469 command line option is disabled.
2471 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2472 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2474 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2476 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2478 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2479 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2481 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2483 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2484 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2485 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2486 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2487 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2488 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2490 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2491 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2494 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2495 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2497 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2498 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2500 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2501 received was valid base64.
2503 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2504 name of the variable that was being set.
2506 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2508 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2509 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2510 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2511 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2512 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2513 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2515 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2517 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2518 nor realm was specified.
2520 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2521 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2522 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2523 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2525 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2526 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2527 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2529 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2530 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2531 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2533 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2534 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2535 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2536 some systems use these upper case variants.
2538 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2539 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2540 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2541 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2543 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2545 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2546 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2548 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2549 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2552 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2554 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2555 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2556 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2557 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2559 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2562 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2563 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2564 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2566 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2567 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2569 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2570 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2571 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2572 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2574 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2575 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2576 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2578 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2580 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2581 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2582 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2583 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2586 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2587 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2588 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2590 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2592 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2593 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2595 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2596 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2598 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2599 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2600 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2601 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2602 when emails are that large.
2609 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2610 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2612 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2613 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2614 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2616 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2617 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2618 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2620 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2621 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2622 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2623 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2624 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2626 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2627 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2628 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2629 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2630 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2633 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2634 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2635 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2636 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2637 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2638 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2639 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2640 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2641 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2642 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2643 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2644 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2645 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2646 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2648 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2649 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2652 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2653 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2654 error should be diagnosed.
2656 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2657 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2658 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2659 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2660 appeared instead of "NULL".
2662 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2663 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2664 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2665 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2666 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2667 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2670 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2671 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2672 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2678 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2679 or receiver verification errors.
2681 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2684 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2685 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2686 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2687 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2689 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2690 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2691 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2692 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2693 shouldn't happen again.
2695 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2696 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2697 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2699 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2700 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2702 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2704 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2705 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2707 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2708 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2711 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2712 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2713 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2715 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2716 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2717 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2718 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2720 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2721 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2722 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2723 to define what should happen).
2725 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2726 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2727 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2729 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2731 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2733 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2734 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2736 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2737 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2738 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2739 structure in all cases.
2741 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2742 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2743 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2744 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2746 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
2747 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
2750 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
2751 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
2753 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
2754 MD5 (which is deprecated).
2756 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
2757 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
2758 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
2760 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
2761 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
2762 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
2764 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
2765 the book and for uniformity.
2767 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
2769 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2770 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
2771 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
2772 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
2773 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
2774 non-existent command as the problem.
2776 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
2777 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
2778 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
2780 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
2782 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
2783 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
2784 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
2786 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
2787 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
2788 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
2789 timestamps using strftime().
2791 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
2792 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
2794 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
2795 transport-time rewrites.
2797 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
2798 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
2799 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
2800 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
2802 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
2803 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
2805 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
2806 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
2807 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
2808 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
2811 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
2812 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
2813 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
2814 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
2815 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
2816 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
2817 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
2819 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
2820 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
2821 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
2822 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
2823 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
2825 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
2826 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
2827 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
2828 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
2829 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
2830 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
2831 remaining text gets split now.
2833 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
2834 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
2835 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
2836 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
2838 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
2839 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
2840 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
2841 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
2844 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
2845 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
2846 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
2847 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
2848 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
2849 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
2850 passed through if needed.
2852 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
2853 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
2854 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
2855 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
2856 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
2857 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
2859 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
2860 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
2861 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
2862 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
2863 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
2865 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
2866 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
2867 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
2868 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
2869 incorrect size information for certain domains.
2871 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
2872 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
2875 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
2876 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
2877 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
2878 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
2879 mayhem of various kinds.
2881 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
2882 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
2883 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
2884 the right test for positive values.
2886 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
2887 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
2888 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
2889 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
2890 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
2891 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
2892 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
2893 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
2894 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
2895 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
2898 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
2901 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
2902 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
2905 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
2906 the existing equality matching.
2908 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
2909 dealing with inode numbers.
2911 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
2912 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
2913 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
2915 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
2916 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
2917 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
2918 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
2921 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
2922 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
2923 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
2924 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
2925 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
2926 relay addresses has also been removed.
2928 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
2930 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
2931 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
2932 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
2934 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
2935 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
2936 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
2937 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
2938 processing applies to CR:
2940 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
2941 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
2943 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
2944 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
2945 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
2946 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
2948 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
2949 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
2950 This is a VOB (very old bug).
2952 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
2953 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
2954 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
2955 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
2956 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
2957 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
2960 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
2963 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
2964 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
2965 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
2966 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
2969 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2971 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
2973 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
2975 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
2976 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
2977 not considered personal.
2979 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
2981 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
2983 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
2985 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
2986 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
2987 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
2988 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
2989 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
2990 header lines, and spool format errors.
2992 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
2993 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
2994 for more flexibility.
2996 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
2997 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
2998 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3000 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3003 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3004 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3005 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3006 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3007 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3008 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3009 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3010 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3011 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3013 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3014 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3015 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3016 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3017 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3018 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3019 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3021 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3022 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3023 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3025 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3026 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3027 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3028 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3029 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3030 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3031 instead of killing the process with assert().
3033 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3034 than Unicode encoding.
3036 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3037 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3038 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3039 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3041 77. Added process_log_path.
3043 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3044 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3046 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3047 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3049 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3050 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3051 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3053 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3054 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3055 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3056 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3057 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3060 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3061 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3064 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3065 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3066 they will be used during message reception.
3072 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.