1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
9 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
12 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
15 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
19 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
21 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
27 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
34 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
36 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
38 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
41 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
45 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
47 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
49 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
51 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
53 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
54 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
56 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
58 PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
60 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
61 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
63 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
64 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
67 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
69 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
71 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
72 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
74 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
77 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
78 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
80 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
81 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
83 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
86 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
89 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
92 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
94 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
95 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
96 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
97 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
99 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
101 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
102 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
103 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
104 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
107 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
108 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
109 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
111 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
112 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
113 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
114 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
116 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
117 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
118 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
119 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
120 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
121 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
122 delivery, as in LMTP.
124 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
125 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
127 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
129 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
133 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
134 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
135 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
136 username as equal to the username.
138 This change corrects that bug.
140 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
141 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
142 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
144 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
146 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
147 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
148 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
149 NULL dereference and crash.
151 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
153 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
154 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
155 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
157 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
159 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
160 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
161 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
162 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
163 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
164 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
165 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
166 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
167 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
168 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
169 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
171 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
172 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
178 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
180 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
186 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
187 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
188 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
190 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
192 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
195 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
197 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
199 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
201 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
202 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
204 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
205 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
207 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
208 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
210 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
211 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
212 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
214 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
216 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
217 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
219 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
221 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
223 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
224 non-compliant senders.
225 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
227 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
228 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
229 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
231 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
232 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
233 in spool file corruption.
235 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
236 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
237 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
240 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
241 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
242 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
244 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
245 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
247 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
249 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
251 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
253 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
254 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
255 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
257 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
258 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
259 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
260 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
262 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
263 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
265 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
266 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
267 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
268 resolver implementation change.
270 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
271 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
273 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
275 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
277 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
278 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
280 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
281 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
283 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
284 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
286 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
287 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
288 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
289 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
290 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
292 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
294 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
295 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
296 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
298 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
300 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
301 read-only, out of scope).
302 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
304 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
305 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
306 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
307 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
309 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
311 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
312 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
313 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
314 real issues in debug logging.
316 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
317 assignment on my part. Fixed.
319 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
320 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
321 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
323 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
324 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
325 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
328 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
329 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
331 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
332 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
333 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
334 needs to override this, it can.
336 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
337 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
338 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
340 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
341 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
342 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
343 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
345 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
351 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
352 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
354 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
356 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
359 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
360 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
362 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
363 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
364 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
366 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
367 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
368 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
369 not safe for signals.
371 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
372 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
373 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
374 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
377 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
379 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
380 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
381 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
382 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
383 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
385 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
386 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
387 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
388 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
389 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
390 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
392 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
393 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
394 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
395 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
397 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
398 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
399 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
400 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
402 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
403 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
404 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
405 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
406 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
407 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
408 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
409 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
410 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
412 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
413 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
414 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
415 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
417 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
418 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
419 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
420 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
421 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
422 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
423 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
424 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
425 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
426 details in the main documentation.
428 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
430 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
432 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
433 repository when doing development or release builds.
435 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
436 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
438 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
439 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
442 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
444 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
445 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
447 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
448 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
450 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
451 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
453 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
454 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
456 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
457 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
459 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
461 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
464 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
465 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
466 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
468 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
470 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
472 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
473 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
479 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
481 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
482 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
484 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
486 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
488 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
491 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
492 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
494 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
495 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
497 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
500 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
503 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
504 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
506 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
507 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
508 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
509 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
511 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
512 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
518 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
521 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
522 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
523 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
525 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
526 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
528 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
529 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
530 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
532 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
533 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
535 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
536 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
538 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
539 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
541 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
542 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
544 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
545 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
547 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
550 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
551 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
553 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
554 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
556 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
557 SQL string expansion failure details.
558 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
560 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
561 Patch from Simon Arlott.
563 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
564 extern declarations in function scope.
565 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
567 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
568 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
569 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
572 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
573 Patch from Mark Zealey.
575 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
576 Patch from Mark Zealey.
578 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
579 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
581 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
582 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
584 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
585 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
588 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
590 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
592 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
593 Patch by Simon Arlott
595 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
596 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
602 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
603 consequences so log it to the panic log.
605 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
606 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
608 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
610 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
611 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
612 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
614 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
615 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
616 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
618 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
619 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
620 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
621 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
623 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
624 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
625 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
626 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
628 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
629 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
630 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
633 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
636 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
637 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
638 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
639 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
640 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
646 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
647 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
648 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
650 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
651 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
653 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
655 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
657 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
659 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
661 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
663 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
664 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
665 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
666 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
668 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
669 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
670 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
671 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
672 more caution in buffer sizes.
674 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
676 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
678 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
680 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
682 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
684 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
686 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
688 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
689 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
690 ignore trailing whitespace.
692 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
694 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
697 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
698 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
700 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
701 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
702 Notification from John Horne.
704 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
707 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
708 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
711 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
714 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
715 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
716 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
718 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
719 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
720 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
723 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
724 option (effectively making it always true).
726 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
727 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
729 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
730 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
732 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
733 run-time user, instead of root.
735 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
736 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
738 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
739 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
742 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
743 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
744 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
746 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
748 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
754 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
755 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
758 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
759 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
762 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
763 Patch from Alain Williams
765 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
767 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
768 Patch from Andreas Metzler
770 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
771 Patch from Kirill Miazine
773 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
775 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
777 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
778 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
780 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
782 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
784 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
785 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
786 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
788 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
789 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
791 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
792 Patch by Simon Arlott
794 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
795 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
801 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
803 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
805 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
807 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
809 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
815 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
816 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
818 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
819 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
822 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
823 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
824 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
826 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
827 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
829 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
830 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
831 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
832 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
834 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
835 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
836 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
838 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
840 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
842 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
843 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
845 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
847 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
848 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
849 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
850 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
852 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
853 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
855 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
857 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
859 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
860 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
862 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
863 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
865 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
866 that they are available at delivery time.
868 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
870 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
871 incoming_port log selectors.
873 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
874 setting expands to an empty string.
876 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
877 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
879 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
880 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
882 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
883 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
885 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
886 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
888 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
889 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
891 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
892 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
894 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
896 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
897 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
899 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
900 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
902 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
904 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
905 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
907 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
909 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
911 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
914 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
915 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
917 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
918 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
920 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
921 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
923 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
924 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
926 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
927 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
929 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
930 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
932 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
933 plus update to original patch.
935 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
937 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
938 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
940 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
942 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
944 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
946 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
948 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
949 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
951 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
952 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
954 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
955 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
957 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
958 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
960 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
962 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
964 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
966 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
972 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
973 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
974 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
976 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
977 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
978 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
979 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
980 build errors in sieve.c.
982 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
983 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
984 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
986 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
988 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
990 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
992 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
998 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1000 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1001 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1002 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1003 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1004 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1005 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1006 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1007 for iplsearch lookups.
1009 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1010 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1011 previously such lookups could never work.
1013 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1014 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1015 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1017 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1020 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1021 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1022 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1023 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1024 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1025 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1027 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1028 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1030 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1031 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1032 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1033 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1034 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1035 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1037 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1040 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1042 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1043 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1046 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1047 by clients under certain conditions.
1049 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1050 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1052 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1054 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1055 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1057 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1059 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1061 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1063 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1064 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1066 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1068 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1069 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1071 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1073 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1075 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1076 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1077 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1078 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1080 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1081 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1082 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1084 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1085 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1087 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1089 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1091 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1093 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1094 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1095 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1101 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1102 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1105 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1106 issue a MAIL command.
1108 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1110 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1112 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1113 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1114 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1115 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1116 item. This has been fixed.
1118 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1119 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1121 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1122 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1124 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1125 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1126 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1128 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1130 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1131 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1132 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1133 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1134 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1136 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1137 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1138 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1140 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1141 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1142 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1143 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1145 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1147 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1149 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1150 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1151 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1152 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1153 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1155 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1157 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1158 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1159 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1162 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1164 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1166 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1168 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1170 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1172 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1173 no_callout_flush is set.
1175 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1176 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1177 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1180 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1182 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1183 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1184 other ACL rejections are.
1186 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1187 with slight modification.
1189 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1190 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1192 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1193 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1196 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1197 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1199 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1201 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1202 expansion side effects.
1204 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1205 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1206 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1209 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1210 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1211 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1213 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1214 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1215 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1216 were accidentally chopped off.
1218 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1219 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1220 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1221 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1222 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1223 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1224 pipelining has not been advertised.
1226 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1228 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1229 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1230 This has been fixed.
1232 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1233 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1234 reported on Solaris.
1236 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1237 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1238 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1239 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1240 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1241 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1242 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1244 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1247 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1249 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1251 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1252 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1253 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1254 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1255 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1256 criteria to be more general.
1258 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1259 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1260 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1261 host_all_ignored option.
1263 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1264 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1265 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1266 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1267 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1268 is what is supposed to happen).
1270 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1271 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1272 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1273 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1274 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1277 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1278 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1279 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1280 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1281 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1282 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1285 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1287 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1288 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1290 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1291 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1293 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1295 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1297 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1298 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1299 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1300 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1301 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1302 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1303 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1304 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1305 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1306 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1307 least in a lot of common cases.
1309 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1310 advertised in response to EHLO.
1316 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1317 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1319 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1320 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1322 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1323 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1324 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1326 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1327 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1328 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1329 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1330 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1336 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1337 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1340 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1341 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1342 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1344 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1345 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1346 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1347 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1348 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1349 rather than extend the field.
1355 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1356 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1357 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1358 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1361 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1362 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1363 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1365 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1366 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1367 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1369 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1370 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1371 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1374 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1375 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1376 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1377 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1378 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1379 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1380 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1381 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1382 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1383 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1384 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1386 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1389 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1390 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1391 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1392 ignores EPIPE as well.
1394 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1395 (quoted-printable decoding).
1397 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1398 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1400 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1402 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1404 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1406 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1407 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1409 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1412 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1413 miscellaneous code fixes
1415 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1418 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1419 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1420 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1421 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1422 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1423 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1424 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1425 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1427 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1428 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1429 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1430 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1432 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1433 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1434 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1435 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1436 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1437 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1438 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1439 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1440 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1442 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1445 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1446 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1447 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1448 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1449 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1450 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1451 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1452 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1454 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1455 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1458 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1459 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1460 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1461 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1462 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1463 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1464 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1465 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1466 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1467 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1468 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1469 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1470 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1472 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1473 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1474 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1475 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1476 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1477 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1478 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1480 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1481 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1482 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1483 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1484 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1485 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1486 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1487 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1488 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1489 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1491 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1492 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1493 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1494 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1495 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1497 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1498 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1499 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1500 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1501 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1502 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1503 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1505 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1506 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1507 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1508 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1509 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1510 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1513 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1514 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1515 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1518 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1519 if any retry times were supplied.
1521 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1522 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1523 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1525 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1527 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1529 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1530 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1531 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1532 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1533 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1534 before) are ignored.
1536 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1537 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1539 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1540 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1541 committing the later change.]
1543 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1544 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1545 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1546 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1547 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1548 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1549 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1550 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1551 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1553 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1554 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1555 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1556 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1557 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1558 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1559 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1560 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1561 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1563 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1564 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1565 hammering the server.
1567 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1568 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1570 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1572 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1573 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1574 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1576 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1577 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1578 one case where this was not true.
1580 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1581 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1582 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1583 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1586 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1587 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1588 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1589 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1590 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1591 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1592 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1593 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1594 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1597 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1598 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1599 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1600 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1602 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1603 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1605 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1606 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1607 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1609 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1611 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1613 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1615 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1616 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1617 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1618 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1620 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1621 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1623 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1624 be meaningful with "accept".
1626 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1627 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1629 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1630 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1631 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1633 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1634 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1635 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1636 there is data to show.
1637 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1639 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1640 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1641 as well as the number of messages.
1643 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1644 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1645 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1647 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1648 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1649 have a flag are now skipped.
1651 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1652 Added the -emptyok flag.
1654 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1655 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1657 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1658 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1659 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1661 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1664 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1665 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1667 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1669 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1670 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1672 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1674 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1675 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1676 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1677 contravention of the specifications.
1679 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1680 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1681 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1683 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1684 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1685 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1687 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1689 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1690 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1691 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1692 some point in the past.
1694 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1695 transport during callout processing was broken.
1697 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1698 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1700 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1701 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1703 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1704 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1706 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1712 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1713 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1715 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1716 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1717 there is data to show.
1718 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1720 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1721 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1723 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1724 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1726 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1727 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1729 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1730 submissions from trusted users.
1732 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1733 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1735 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1736 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1737 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1738 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1739 there is now a framework to start from.
1741 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1742 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1743 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1745 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1747 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1749 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1751 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1752 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1753 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1755 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1758 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1759 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1760 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1762 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1763 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1764 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1767 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1768 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1769 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1770 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1771 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1773 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1774 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1776 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1778 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1779 operations in malware.c.
1781 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1784 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1785 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1786 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1789 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1790 statements to "add_header".
1792 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1793 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1795 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1796 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1799 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1803 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1804 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1805 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1808 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1809 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1811 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1812 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1814 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1815 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1816 any possible encoding problems.
1818 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1819 but not after initializing Perl.
1821 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1822 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1823 apparently, which is not desirable.
1825 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1828 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1831 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1833 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1834 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1835 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1836 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1838 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1839 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1840 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1842 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1843 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1844 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1847 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1848 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1849 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1850 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1851 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1857 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1858 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1860 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1863 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1864 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1865 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1866 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1867 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1868 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1869 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1870 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1873 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1875 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1876 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1877 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1879 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1880 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1881 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1884 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1885 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1887 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1888 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1889 option (which defaults to 0600).
1891 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1893 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1894 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1895 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1896 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1897 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1898 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1899 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1901 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1907 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1908 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1909 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1910 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1911 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1912 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1915 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1916 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1918 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1920 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1921 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1922 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1923 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1924 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1927 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1928 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1930 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1931 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1932 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1933 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1934 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1936 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1937 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1938 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1939 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1941 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1942 be the same on different OS.
1944 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1947 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1948 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1950 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1953 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1954 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1955 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1956 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1957 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1958 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1961 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1962 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1963 when Exim was called.
1965 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1966 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1968 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1969 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1970 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1971 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1973 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1974 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1975 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1976 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1979 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1980 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1981 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1983 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1984 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1985 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1987 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1990 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1991 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1992 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1993 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1994 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1995 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1996 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1997 values from the SRV records were lost.
1999 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2000 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2001 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2003 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2004 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2005 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2007 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2008 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2009 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2010 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2011 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2012 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2013 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2014 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2015 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2016 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2018 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2019 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2020 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2022 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2023 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2025 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2026 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2027 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2028 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2031 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2032 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2033 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2035 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2036 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2037 PH/23 above applies.
2039 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2040 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2041 (for which there is an explicit test).
2043 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2045 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2046 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2047 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2048 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2049 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2051 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2052 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2053 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2054 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2056 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2057 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2058 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2060 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2062 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2064 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2065 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2066 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2068 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2069 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2070 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2071 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2072 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2074 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2075 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2076 the message gets confusing).
2078 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2079 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2080 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2081 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2083 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2084 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2085 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2086 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2089 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2090 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2091 the different processes.
2093 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2095 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2097 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2098 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2100 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2101 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2103 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2104 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2105 messages matching specified criteria.
2107 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2109 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2110 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2112 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2113 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2114 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2115 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2116 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2117 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2118 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2119 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2120 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2121 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2123 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2124 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2125 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2127 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2129 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2130 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2131 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2132 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2133 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2134 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2135 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2138 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2139 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2141 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2143 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2145 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2147 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2148 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2149 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2150 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2151 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2152 size of the count of files.
2154 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2156 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2159 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2160 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2161 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2162 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2164 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2165 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2166 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2168 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2169 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2170 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2171 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2172 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2174 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2175 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2177 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2178 will now be deprecated.
2180 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2182 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2183 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2184 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2186 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2187 with very large, slow to parse queues
2189 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2191 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2193 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2194 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2195 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2198 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2199 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2200 Sieve code now uses this.
2202 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2203 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2205 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2206 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2208 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2210 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2211 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2212 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2213 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2214 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2216 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2217 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2218 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2219 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2221 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2223 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2225 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2226 is preferred over IPv4.
2228 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2229 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2230 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2231 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2232 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2233 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2234 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2236 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2237 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2238 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2240 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2242 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2243 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2244 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2245 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2246 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2247 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2248 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2249 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2250 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2251 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2252 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2254 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2255 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2256 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2262 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2264 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2265 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2267 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2268 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2269 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2271 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2273 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2276 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2279 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2280 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2281 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2284 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2285 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2287 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2288 inside the third argument.
2290 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2291 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2294 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2295 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2297 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2298 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2300 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2302 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2303 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2306 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2308 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2309 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2310 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2311 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2312 identical. For example:
2314 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2316 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2317 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2318 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2320 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2321 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2322 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2323 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2325 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2326 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2327 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2330 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2332 o fixes some comments
2333 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2334 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2335 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2336 and documents the missing references header update
2340 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2341 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2344 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2345 Electronic Mail") by including:
2347 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2349 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2350 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2351 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2352 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2353 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2355 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2357 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2359 The auto-replied keyword:
2361 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2362 message by an automatic process,
2364 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2366 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2367 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2369 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2370 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2373 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2374 to the default Received: header definition.
2376 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2378 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2379 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2380 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2382 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2383 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2384 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2386 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2387 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2388 and treats the condition as false.
2390 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2392 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2393 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2394 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2395 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2396 not changing the active code.
2398 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2399 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2401 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2402 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2404 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2407 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2408 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2409 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2410 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2411 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2412 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2413 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2414 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2415 the text comparison.
2417 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2418 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2419 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2420 The same fix has been applied.
2426 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2427 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2430 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2431 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2433 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2435 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2436 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2437 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2438 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2439 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2441 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2442 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2443 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2444 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2447 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2455 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2456 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2458 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2460 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2462 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2463 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2464 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2466 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2467 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2468 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2470 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2471 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2474 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2475 ${stat: expansion item.
2477 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2478 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2480 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2481 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2484 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2486 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2489 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2490 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2492 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2494 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2495 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2496 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2497 the end of the subprocess.
2499 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2500 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2501 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2502 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2503 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2505 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2507 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2509 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2510 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2512 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2514 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2516 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2517 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2520 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2522 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2523 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2524 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2526 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2527 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2529 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2530 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2532 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2533 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2535 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2536 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2538 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2539 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2540 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2541 contributed by a Radius user.
2543 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2544 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2546 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2547 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2549 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2552 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2553 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2556 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2557 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2558 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2559 header lines when this was not necessary.
2561 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2563 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2564 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2565 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2568 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2571 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2572 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2573 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2574 return code was incorrect.
2576 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2578 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2580 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2582 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2584 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2585 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2586 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2587 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2588 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2591 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2593 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2594 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2595 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2596 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2597 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2598 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2599 which is clearly wrong.
2601 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2603 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2604 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2605 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2608 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2609 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2611 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2613 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2614 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2616 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2617 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2619 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2620 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2622 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2623 recipients, not senders.
2625 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2626 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2628 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2630 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2632 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2633 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2634 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2635 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2637 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2639 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2640 clock is set back in time.
2642 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2643 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2645 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2646 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2648 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2649 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2652 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2653 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2656 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2659 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2661 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2662 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2663 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2665 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2666 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2667 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2668 helo verification defer as a failure.
2670 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2671 actual error message.
2677 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2679 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2680 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2681 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2682 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2684 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2686 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2687 can still be requested.
2689 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2690 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2691 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2692 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2694 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2695 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2696 circumstances, but probably never did.
2698 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2699 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2700 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2703 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2705 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2706 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2708 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2710 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2712 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2713 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2714 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2715 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2716 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2717 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2719 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2720 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2721 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2722 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2723 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2724 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2726 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2727 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2729 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2730 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2732 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2733 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2735 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2737 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2739 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2741 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2743 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2745 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2747 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2749 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2750 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2751 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2753 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2754 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2755 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2756 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2758 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2759 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2760 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2762 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2763 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2764 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2765 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2767 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2768 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2771 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2772 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2773 should work with maildirs and everything.
2775 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2776 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2778 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2781 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2782 function for BDB 4.3.
2784 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2786 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2787 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2790 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2791 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2792 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2793 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2794 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2795 formatting function string_vformat().
2797 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2798 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2799 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2800 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2801 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2802 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2803 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2804 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2806 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2807 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2810 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2811 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2813 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2814 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2815 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2816 test. It is now used for both.
2818 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2819 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2820 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2821 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2822 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2823 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2825 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2826 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2827 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2830 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2831 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2832 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2834 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2835 experimental DomainKeys support:
2837 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2838 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2839 the control was given.
2841 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2843 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2845 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2847 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2848 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2849 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2852 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2853 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2854 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2855 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2856 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2857 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2860 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2861 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2862 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2863 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2864 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2865 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2867 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2868 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2869 do -d+all out of habit.
2871 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2872 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2875 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2876 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2877 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2878 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2879 record types that Exim uses.
2881 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2882 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2883 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2884 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2885 non-existent file that was broken.
2887 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2888 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2890 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2891 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2892 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2894 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2896 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2897 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2898 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2899 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2900 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2903 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2904 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2905 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2906 at a slight CPU cost.
2908 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2909 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2911 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2914 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2916 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2917 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2923 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2924 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2926 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2928 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2930 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2931 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2933 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2934 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2935 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2936 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2937 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2938 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2941 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2942 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2943 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2944 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2947 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2948 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2949 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2950 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2951 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2952 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2953 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2956 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2957 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2959 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2960 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2961 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2962 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2963 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2964 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2966 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2967 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2968 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2969 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2971 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2974 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2975 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2977 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2978 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2979 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2980 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2983 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2985 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2986 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2988 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2989 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2990 to what was transported.)
2992 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2994 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2995 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2996 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2997 spamd_address settings.
2999 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3000 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3001 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3002 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3003 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3005 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3007 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3008 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3009 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3010 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3011 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3013 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3014 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3016 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3017 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3018 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3019 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3020 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3021 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3022 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3025 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3026 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3027 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3028 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3029 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3030 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3031 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3034 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3036 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3037 driver and ACL definitions.
3039 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3040 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3042 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3043 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3044 understands it better than I do:
3046 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3047 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3049 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3050 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3051 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3052 => three warnings about OTP not working
3053 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3055 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3056 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3057 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3058 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3060 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3061 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3063 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3064 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3065 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3067 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3068 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3071 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3072 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3075 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3076 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3077 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3079 warn !verify = sender
3080 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3082 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3083 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3085 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3087 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3088 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3090 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3091 nomenclature these days.)
3093 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3094 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3096 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3097 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3098 . First host does not offer TLS;
3099 . First host accepts first address;
3100 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3101 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3102 . Second host accepts second address.
3103 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3104 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3107 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3108 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3109 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3110 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3111 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3113 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3114 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3116 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3117 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3119 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3120 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3121 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3123 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3124 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3127 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3129 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3130 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3131 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3132 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3133 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3134 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3135 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3137 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3138 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3139 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3140 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3141 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3143 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3144 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3147 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3148 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3149 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3150 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3151 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3152 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3154 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3156 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3157 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3158 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3159 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3160 printable escape sequences.
3162 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3163 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3166 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3167 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3170 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3171 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3172 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3173 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3174 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3176 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3177 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3178 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3180 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3182 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3183 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3186 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3187 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3188 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3189 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3190 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3191 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3192 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3193 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3194 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3197 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3198 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3199 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3200 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3204 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3205 ----------------------------------------
3207 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3208 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3209 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3210 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3211 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3212 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3215 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3216 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3217 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3218 historical information.
3224 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3226 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3227 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3229 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3230 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3233 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3234 filter fails to execute.
3236 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3237 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3238 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3239 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3240 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3242 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3244 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3245 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3246 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3247 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3249 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3250 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3251 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3252 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3253 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3255 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3257 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3259 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3260 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3261 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3262 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3264 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3265 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3266 sender verification.
3268 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3269 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3271 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3273 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3276 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3277 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3279 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3280 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3282 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3283 information about exactly what failed.
3285 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3287 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3288 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3289 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3291 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3292 It is now set to "smtps".
3294 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3295 ignore_target_hosts.
3297 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3298 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3299 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3300 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3303 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3304 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3305 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3307 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3308 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3309 wake it up if nothing else does.
3311 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3312 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3313 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3316 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3317 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3319 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3321 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3322 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3323 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3324 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3325 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3326 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3327 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3328 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3330 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3331 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3332 than one IP address.
3334 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3335 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3336 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3337 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3339 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3340 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3341 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3342 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3343 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3346 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3347 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3348 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3349 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3351 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3352 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3355 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3356 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3357 $sender_host_address.
3359 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3360 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3361 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3362 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3363 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3366 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3368 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3369 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3371 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3372 just the host names, not the priorities.
3374 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3375 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3376 controlled by a keyword.
3378 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3379 multiple records are returned.
3381 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3382 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3385 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3387 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3388 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3390 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3391 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3392 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3394 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3396 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3398 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3400 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3401 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3402 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3403 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3404 because the tests only now provoked it.
3406 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3407 (this can affect the format of dates).
3409 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3410 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3411 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3412 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3414 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3416 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3417 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3418 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3419 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3421 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3422 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3423 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3425 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3428 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3429 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3430 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3431 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3432 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3433 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3436 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3437 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3438 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3441 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3442 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3443 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3445 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3446 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3447 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3448 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3449 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3450 so I produce this patch..."
3452 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3453 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3456 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3457 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3458 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3459 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3462 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3464 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3465 long debug lines gets shown.
3467 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3468 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3470 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3472 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3473 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3474 of $primary_hostname.
3476 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3477 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3478 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3479 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3480 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3481 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3482 by change 4.50/55 above.
3484 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3485 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3486 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3487 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3488 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3489 running as the user.
3492 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3493 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3494 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3497 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3498 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3500 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3501 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3502 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3503 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3504 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3506 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3507 This has been fixed.
3509 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3510 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3511 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3512 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3515 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3517 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3518 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3519 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3520 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3522 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3523 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3525 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3526 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3527 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3529 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3530 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3531 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3534 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3535 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3536 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3538 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3539 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3540 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3541 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3543 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3544 during host lookups.
3546 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3547 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3549 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3551 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3552 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3553 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3554 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3555 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3558 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3559 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3561 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3562 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3563 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3565 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3567 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3568 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3569 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3570 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3571 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3572 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3575 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3576 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3577 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3578 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3579 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3581 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3584 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3586 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3587 "vacation" handling.
3589 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3590 OS variants using glibc.
3592 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3595 ----------------------------------------------------
3596 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3597 ----------------------------------------------------
3603 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3604 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3607 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3608 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3611 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3612 filter fails to execute.
3614 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3615 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3616 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3617 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3618 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3620 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3621 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3622 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3623 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3625 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3626 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3627 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3628 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3629 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3631 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3633 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3634 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3635 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3636 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3638 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3639 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3640 sender verification.
3642 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3643 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3645 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3646 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3648 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3649 ignore_target_hosts.
3651 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3652 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3653 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3654 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3657 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3658 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3659 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3661 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3662 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3663 wake it up if nothing else does.
3665 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3666 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3667 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3670 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3671 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3673 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3675 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3676 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3679 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3680 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3683 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3684 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3685 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3686 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3687 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3690 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3691 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3694 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3695 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3696 $sender_host_address.
3698 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3700 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3701 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3702 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3704 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3707 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3708 (this can affect the format of dates).
3710 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3711 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3712 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3713 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3715 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3716 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3717 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3719 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3720 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3721 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3722 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3724 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3725 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3726 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3728 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3731 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3732 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3733 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3734 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3735 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3736 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3739 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3740 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3741 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3742 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3745 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3746 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3747 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3748 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3749 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3750 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3751 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3753 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3754 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3755 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3756 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3757 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3758 running as the user.
3761 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3762 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3763 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3766 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3767 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3768 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3769 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3770 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3772 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3773 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3774 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3775 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3778 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3779 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3780 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3781 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3782 because the tests only now provoked it.
3788 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3789 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3790 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3791 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3792 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3793 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3794 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3796 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3797 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3800 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3802 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3804 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3805 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3808 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3809 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3810 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3811 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3812 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3814 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3815 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3817 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3819 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3821 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3824 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3825 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3827 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3828 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3829 affecting debugging statements).
3831 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3833 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3834 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3835 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3836 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3837 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3838 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3839 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3840 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3841 after the received time, and all would be well.
3843 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3844 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3845 condition in an expansion string.
3847 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3849 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3850 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3851 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3852 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3853 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3854 job under whatever limits there are.
3856 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3858 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3861 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3862 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3863 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3864 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3867 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3868 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3869 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3870 binary data in such strings.
3872 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3874 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3875 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3876 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3877 failure, which is pointless.
3879 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3881 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3883 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3884 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3885 Sender: header lines.
3887 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3888 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3889 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3891 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3892 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3893 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3894 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3895 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3898 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3899 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3900 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3901 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3902 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3904 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3905 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3906 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3909 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3910 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3912 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3913 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3915 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3917 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3919 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3921 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3924 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3926 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3928 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3929 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3930 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3931 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3933 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3934 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3940 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3941 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3942 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3944 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3945 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3946 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3947 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3948 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3949 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3951 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3952 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3953 verification failure".
3955 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3956 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3957 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3958 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3960 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3961 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3962 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3963 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3964 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3965 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3966 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3967 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3968 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3969 treated as a timeout.
3971 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3972 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3973 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3974 not set for Exim filters).
3976 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3977 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3978 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3980 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3982 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3983 try to make them clearer.
3985 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3986 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3988 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3990 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3992 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3993 only the Cygwin environment.
3995 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3996 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3997 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3998 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3999 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4001 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4002 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4003 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4004 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4005 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4006 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4007 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4009 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4010 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4012 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4014 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4015 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4016 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4018 To: susanne@some.where
4020 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4021 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4022 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4023 of addresses in From: header lines).
4025 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4026 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4027 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4029 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4030 treated as non-personal.
4032 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4033 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4035 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4037 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4039 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4040 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4041 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4043 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4044 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4046 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4047 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4048 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4049 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4050 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4051 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4053 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4054 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4055 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4056 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4057 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4058 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4059 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4060 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4062 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4064 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4065 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4067 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4068 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4069 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4071 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4072 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4074 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4075 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4076 rather than long int.
4078 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4080 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4086 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4087 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4088 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4089 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4090 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4091 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4097 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4098 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4100 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4101 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4102 socklen_t is defined.
4104 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4107 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4110 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4111 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4112 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4113 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4114 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4116 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4117 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4118 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4119 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4121 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4122 of flapping under certain conditions.
4124 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4125 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4126 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4128 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4130 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4132 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4133 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4134 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4135 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4137 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4138 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4139 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4140 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4141 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4142 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4143 preserved with the message after it was received.
4145 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4146 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4147 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4148 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4149 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4150 test suite worked just fine.
4152 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4153 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4154 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4156 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4157 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4160 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4161 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4162 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4163 does not fully solve it.
4165 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4166 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4167 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4168 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4169 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4171 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4172 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4173 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4175 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4176 string, for example:
4178 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4180 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4181 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4182 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4183 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4184 the routers could not see them.
4186 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4187 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4189 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4190 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4193 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4194 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4195 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4196 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4197 that needed quoting.
4199 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4200 was not being matched caselessly.
4202 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4205 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4206 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4207 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4208 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4209 when use_sender is false.
4211 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4213 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4215 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4217 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4218 the configuration file.
4220 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4221 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4223 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4225 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4226 bytes in the message body.
4228 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4229 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4232 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4234 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4236 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4237 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4238 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4239 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4246 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4247 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4249 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4250 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4251 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4252 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4253 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4255 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4256 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4258 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4259 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4260 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4262 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4263 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4264 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4266 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4269 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4270 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4271 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4272 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4273 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4274 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4275 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4281 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4282 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4283 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4284 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4285 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4286 default (and expected) setting.
4288 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4289 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4290 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4291 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4293 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4294 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4296 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4299 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4300 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4301 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4302 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4303 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4304 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4306 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4307 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4308 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4310 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4311 part (NOT match_host).
4313 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4315 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4316 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4317 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4318 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4319 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4320 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4321 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4322 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4323 the same named file.
4325 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4326 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4329 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4330 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4331 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4332 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4335 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4336 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4337 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4339 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4341 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4343 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4345 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4346 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4348 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4349 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4350 before starting the TLS session.
4352 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4354 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4355 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4357 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4358 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4359 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4360 colon in the middle).
4366 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4367 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4368 multiple configurations are in use.
4370 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4371 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4372 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4373 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4374 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4375 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4377 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4378 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4380 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4381 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4382 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4384 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4385 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4388 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4389 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4391 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4393 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4394 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4396 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4404 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4405 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4406 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4407 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4408 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4410 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4413 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4414 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4415 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4416 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4417 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4418 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4420 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4421 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4422 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4423 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4424 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4425 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4426 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4429 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4430 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4431 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4432 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4433 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4435 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4437 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4438 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4439 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4441 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4443 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4444 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4445 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4448 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4449 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4451 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4452 Three changes have been made:
4454 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4455 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4456 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4457 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4458 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4460 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4463 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4464 the modified behaviour.
4470 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4473 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4474 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4476 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4477 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4478 try to track down a specific problem.
4480 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4481 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4482 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4484 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4487 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4488 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4489 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4490 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4491 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4492 some earlier ones do not.
4494 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4496 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4497 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4498 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4499 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4500 address literals are enabled, of course).
4502 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4504 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4505 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4506 by a command such as
4510 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4512 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4514 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4515 remained set. It is now erased.
4517 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4518 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4520 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4521 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4522 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4523 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4524 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4525 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4526 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4527 appropriate error code.
4529 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4530 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4531 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4532 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4533 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4534 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4536 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4537 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4538 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4540 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4541 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4542 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4543 terminate the header.
4545 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4546 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4547 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4549 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4550 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4551 (4.30/29). In particular:
4553 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4556 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4557 to write a maildirsize file.
4559 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4560 the transport, the new value overrides.
4562 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4565 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4566 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4567 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4570 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4571 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4572 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4575 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4576 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4577 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4579 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4580 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4583 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4584 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4585 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4587 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4589 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4591 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4593 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4594 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4597 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4598 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4599 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4600 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4601 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4602 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4603 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4606 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4607 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4608 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4609 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4610 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4613 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4614 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4615 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4616 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4617 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4618 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4619 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4620 cached value only when the same options are set.
4622 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4624 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4625 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4626 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4627 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4628 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4630 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4631 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4632 it is clearly obsolete.
4634 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4637 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4638 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4639 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4642 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4643 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4644 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4645 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4646 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4648 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4649 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4650 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4651 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4653 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4655 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4657 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4658 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4661 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4662 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4663 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4664 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4665 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4666 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4669 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4670 with the -f command-line option.
4672 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4673 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4674 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4675 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4676 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4677 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4679 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4680 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4683 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4684 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4685 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4686 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4687 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4688 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4689 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4690 buffer is too small.
4692 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4693 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4695 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4696 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4697 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4698 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4699 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4700 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4701 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4702 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4703 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4705 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4706 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4707 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4709 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4710 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4713 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4714 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4715 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4716 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4717 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4719 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4720 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4721 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4722 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4725 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4727 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4729 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4730 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4732 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4733 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4734 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4736 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4737 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4738 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4739 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4740 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4742 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4743 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4744 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4745 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4746 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4747 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4748 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4750 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4751 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4752 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4753 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4754 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4755 the test of how many are available.
4757 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4758 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4759 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4760 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4761 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4762 new message is started.
4764 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4765 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4767 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4768 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4770 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4771 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4772 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4775 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4776 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4777 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4778 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4779 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4780 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4781 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4783 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4784 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4785 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4786 interpreted as octal.
4788 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4791 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4792 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4793 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4794 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4795 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4796 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4798 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4799 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4800 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4801 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4803 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4804 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4805 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4806 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4808 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4809 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4812 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4813 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4815 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4817 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4818 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4819 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4820 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4822 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4823 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4824 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4825 supplied", which is not helpful.
4827 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4828 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4829 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4831 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4832 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4833 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4834 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4835 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4836 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4837 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4838 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4840 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4841 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4842 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4843 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4844 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4846 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4847 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4848 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4849 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4850 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4851 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4853 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4854 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4855 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4857 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4859 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4860 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4861 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4864 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4866 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4867 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4868 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4869 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4870 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4871 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4872 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4873 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4875 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4876 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4877 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4878 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4879 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4881 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4884 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4885 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4886 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4887 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4888 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4889 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4890 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4891 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4892 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4898 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4899 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4900 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4902 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4905 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4906 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4907 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4909 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4910 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4911 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4912 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4913 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4914 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4916 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4917 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4918 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4919 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4920 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4921 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4922 the Exim test suite.
4924 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4925 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4926 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4927 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4929 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4930 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4931 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4932 specify it in this variable.
4934 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4935 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4936 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4937 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4939 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4940 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4941 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4942 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4944 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4945 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4946 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4947 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4948 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4950 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4952 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4955 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4956 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4957 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4958 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4959 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4961 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4962 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4964 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4965 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4966 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4967 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4968 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4970 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4971 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4973 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4974 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4975 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4977 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4978 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4980 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4981 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4983 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4984 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4985 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4987 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4988 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4990 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4991 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4992 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4993 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4995 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4997 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4998 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4999 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5000 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5002 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5004 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5005 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5007 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5009 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5010 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5011 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5012 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5013 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5014 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5016 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5018 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5019 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5022 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5024 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5025 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5027 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5028 550 Sender verify failed
5030 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5031 the final line of the response.
5033 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5034 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5035 all other user lookups.
5037 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5040 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5041 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5042 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5043 result into an int without checking.
5045 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5046 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5047 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5049 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5050 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5051 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5052 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5054 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5057 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5058 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5060 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5061 to the empty sender.
5063 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5064 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5065 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5066 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5067 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5068 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5069 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5072 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5073 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5074 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5075 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5078 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5079 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5081 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5084 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5085 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5087 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5089 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5090 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5093 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5094 as soon as it is encountered.
5096 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5098 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5101 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5102 recognizes a tab character.
5104 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5105 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5106 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5107 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5109 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5111 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5114 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5116 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5118 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5119 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5122 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5123 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5124 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5125 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5126 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5128 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5129 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5131 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5132 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5133 list (.included file names were always shown).
5135 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5136 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5137 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5140 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5141 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5143 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5145 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5147 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5149 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5150 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5151 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5152 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5153 failures to open the logs.
5155 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5156 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5157 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5158 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5159 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5160 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5161 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5167 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5168 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5169 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5172 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5173 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5174 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5176 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5177 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5178 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5180 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5181 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5182 causing some misleading effects.
5184 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5185 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5186 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5188 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5189 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5190 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5191 queue-runner function directly.
5197 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5200 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5201 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5202 was always written to the default place.
5204 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5205 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5206 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5208 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5210 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5212 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5213 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5214 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5216 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5217 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5220 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5221 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5222 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5224 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5225 command line option is disabled.
5227 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5228 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5230 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5232 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5234 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5235 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5237 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5239 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5240 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5241 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5242 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5243 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5244 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5246 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5247 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5250 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5251 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5253 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5254 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5256 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5257 received was valid base64.
5259 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5260 name of the variable that was being set.
5262 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5264 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5265 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5266 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5267 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5268 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5269 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5271 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5273 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5274 nor realm was specified.
5276 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5277 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5278 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5279 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5281 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5282 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5283 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5285 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5286 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5287 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5289 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5290 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5291 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5292 some systems use these upper case variants.
5294 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5295 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5296 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5297 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5299 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5301 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5302 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5304 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5305 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5308 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5310 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5311 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5312 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5313 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5315 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5318 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5319 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5320 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5322 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5323 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5325 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5326 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5327 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5328 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5330 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5331 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5332 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5334 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5336 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5337 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5338 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5339 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5342 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5343 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5344 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5346 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5348 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5349 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5351 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5352 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5354 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5355 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5356 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5357 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5358 when emails are that large.
5365 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5366 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5368 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5369 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5370 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5372 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5373 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5374 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5376 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5377 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5378 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5379 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5380 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5382 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5383 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5384 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5385 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5386 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5389 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5390 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5391 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5392 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5393 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5394 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5395 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5396 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5397 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5398 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5399 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5400 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5401 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5402 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5404 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5405 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5408 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5409 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5410 error should be diagnosed.
5412 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5413 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5414 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5415 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5416 appeared instead of "NULL".
5418 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5419 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5420 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5421 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5422 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5423 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5426 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5427 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5428 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5434 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5435 or receiver verification errors.
5437 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5440 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5441 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5442 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5443 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5445 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5446 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5447 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5448 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5449 shouldn't happen again.
5451 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5452 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5453 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5455 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5456 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5458 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5460 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5461 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5463 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5464 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5467 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5468 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5469 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5471 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5472 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5473 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5474 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5476 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5477 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5478 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5479 to define what should happen).
5481 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5482 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5483 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5485 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5487 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5489 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5490 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5492 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5493 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5494 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5495 structure in all cases.
5497 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5498 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5499 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5500 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5502 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5503 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5506 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5507 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5509 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5510 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5512 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5513 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5514 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5516 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5517 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5518 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5520 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5521 the book and for uniformity.
5523 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5525 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5526 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5527 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5528 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5529 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5530 non-existent command as the problem.
5532 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5533 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5534 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5536 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5538 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5539 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5540 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5542 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5543 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5544 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5545 timestamps using strftime().
5547 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5548 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5550 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5551 transport-time rewrites.
5553 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5554 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5555 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5556 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5558 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5559 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5561 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5562 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5563 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5564 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5567 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5568 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5569 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5570 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5571 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5572 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5573 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5575 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5576 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5577 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5578 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5579 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5581 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5582 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5583 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5584 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5585 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5586 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5587 remaining text gets split now.
5589 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5590 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5591 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5592 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5594 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5595 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5596 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5597 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5600 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5601 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5602 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5603 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5604 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5605 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5606 passed through if needed.
5608 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5609 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5610 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5611 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5612 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5613 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5615 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5616 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5617 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5618 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5619 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5621 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5622 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5623 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5624 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5625 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5627 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5628 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5631 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5632 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5633 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5634 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5635 mayhem of various kinds.
5637 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5638 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5639 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5640 the right test for positive values.
5642 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5643 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5644 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5645 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5646 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5647 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5648 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5649 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5650 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5651 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5654 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5657 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5658 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5661 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5662 the existing equality matching.
5664 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5665 dealing with inode numbers.
5667 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5668 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5669 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5671 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5672 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5673 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5674 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5677 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5678 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5679 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5680 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5681 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5682 relay addresses has also been removed.
5684 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5686 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5687 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5688 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5690 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5691 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5692 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5693 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5694 processing applies to CR:
5696 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5697 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5699 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5700 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5701 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5702 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5704 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5705 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5706 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5708 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5709 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5710 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5711 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5712 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5713 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5716 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5719 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5720 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5721 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5722 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5725 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5727 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5729 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5731 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5732 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5733 not considered personal.
5735 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5737 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5739 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5741 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5742 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5743 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5744 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5745 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5746 header lines, and spool format errors.
5748 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5749 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5750 for more flexibility.
5752 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5753 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5754 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5756 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5759 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5760 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5761 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5762 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5763 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5764 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5765 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5766 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5767 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5769 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5770 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5771 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5772 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5773 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5774 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5775 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5777 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5778 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5779 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5781 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5782 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5783 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5784 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5785 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5786 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5787 instead of killing the process with assert().
5789 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5790 than Unicode encoding.
5792 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5793 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5794 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5795 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5797 77. Added process_log_path.
5799 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5800 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5802 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5803 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5805 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5806 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5807 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5809 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5810 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5811 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5812 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5813 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5816 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5817 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5820 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5821 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5822 they will be used during message reception.
5828 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.