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 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
49 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
50 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
52 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
54 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
56 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
58 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
59 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
61 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
63 PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
65 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
66 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
68 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
69 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
72 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
74 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
76 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
77 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
79 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
82 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
83 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
85 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
86 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
88 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
90 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
92 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
95 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
98 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
100 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
101 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
102 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
103 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
105 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
107 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
108 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
109 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
110 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
113 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
114 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
115 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
117 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
118 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
119 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
120 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
122 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
123 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
124 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
125 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
126 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
127 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
128 delivery, as in LMTP.
130 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
131 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
133 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
135 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
139 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
140 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
141 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
142 username as equal to the username.
144 This change corrects that bug.
146 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
147 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
148 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
150 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
152 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
153 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
154 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
155 NULL dereference and crash.
157 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
159 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
160 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
161 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
163 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
165 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
166 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
167 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
168 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
169 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
170 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
171 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
172 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
173 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
174 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
175 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
177 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
178 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
180 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
181 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
184 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
185 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
186 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
187 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
188 an empty string is now equivalent.
190 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
191 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
192 not performing validation itself.
194 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
195 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
197 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
200 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
202 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
203 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
204 other false fix of the same issue.
205 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
208 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
209 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
211 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
212 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
213 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
215 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
216 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
217 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
219 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
221 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
223 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
224 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
226 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
229 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
230 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
231 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
232 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
233 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
235 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
236 the src/util/ subdirectory.
242 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
244 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
250 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
251 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
252 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
254 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
256 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
259 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
261 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
263 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
265 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
266 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
268 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
269 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
271 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
272 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
274 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
275 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
276 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
278 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
280 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
281 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
283 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
285 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
287 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
288 non-compliant senders.
289 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
291 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
292 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
293 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
295 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
296 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
297 in spool file corruption.
299 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
300 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
301 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
304 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
305 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
306 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
308 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
309 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
311 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
313 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
315 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
317 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
318 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
319 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
321 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
322 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
323 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
324 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
326 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
327 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
329 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
330 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
331 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
332 resolver implementation change.
334 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
335 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
337 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
339 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
341 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
342 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
344 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
345 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
347 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
348 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
350 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
351 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
352 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
353 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
354 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
356 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
358 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
359 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
360 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
362 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
364 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
365 read-only, out of scope).
366 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
368 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
369 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
370 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
371 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
373 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
375 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
376 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
377 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
378 real issues in debug logging.
380 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
381 assignment on my part. Fixed.
383 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
384 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
385 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
387 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
388 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
389 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
392 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
393 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
395 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
396 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
397 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
398 needs to override this, it can.
400 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
401 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
402 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
404 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
405 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
406 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
407 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
409 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
415 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
416 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
418 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
420 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
423 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
424 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
426 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
427 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
428 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
430 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
431 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
432 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
433 not safe for signals.
435 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
436 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
437 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
438 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
441 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
443 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
444 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
445 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
446 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
447 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
449 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
450 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
451 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
452 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
453 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
454 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
456 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
457 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
458 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
459 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
461 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
462 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
463 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
464 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
466 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
467 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
468 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
469 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
470 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
471 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
472 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
473 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
474 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
476 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
477 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
478 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
479 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
481 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
482 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
483 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
484 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
485 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
486 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
487 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
488 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
489 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
490 details in the main documentation.
492 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
494 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
496 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
497 repository when doing development or release builds.
499 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
500 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
502 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
503 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
506 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
508 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
509 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
511 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
512 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
514 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
515 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
517 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
518 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
520 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
521 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
523 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
525 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
528 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
529 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
530 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
532 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
534 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
536 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
537 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
543 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
545 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
546 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
548 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
550 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
552 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
555 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
556 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
558 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
559 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
561 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
564 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
567 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
568 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
570 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
571 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
572 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
573 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
575 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
576 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
582 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
585 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
586 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
587 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
589 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
590 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
592 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
593 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
594 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
596 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
597 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
599 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
600 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
602 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
603 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
605 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
606 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
608 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
609 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
611 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
614 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
615 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
617 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
618 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
620 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
621 SQL string expansion failure details.
622 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
624 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
625 Patch from Simon Arlott.
627 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
628 extern declarations in function scope.
629 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
631 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
632 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
633 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
636 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
637 Patch from Mark Zealey.
639 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
640 Patch from Mark Zealey.
642 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
643 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
645 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
646 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
648 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
649 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
652 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
654 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
656 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
657 Patch by Simon Arlott
659 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
660 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
666 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
667 consequences so log it to the panic log.
669 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
670 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
672 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
674 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
675 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
676 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
678 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
679 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
680 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
682 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
683 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
684 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
685 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
687 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
688 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
689 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
690 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
692 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
693 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
694 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
697 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
700 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
701 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
702 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
703 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
704 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
710 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
711 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
712 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
714 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
715 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
717 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
719 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
721 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
723 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
725 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
727 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
728 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
729 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
730 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
732 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
733 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
734 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
735 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
736 more caution in buffer sizes.
738 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
740 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
742 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
744 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
746 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
748 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
750 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
752 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
753 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
754 ignore trailing whitespace.
756 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
758 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
761 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
762 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
764 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
765 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
766 Notification from John Horne.
768 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
771 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
772 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
775 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
778 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
779 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
780 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
782 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
783 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
784 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
787 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
788 option (effectively making it always true).
790 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
791 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
793 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
794 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
796 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
797 run-time user, instead of root.
799 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
800 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
802 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
803 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
806 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
807 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
808 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
810 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
812 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
818 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
819 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
822 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
823 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
826 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
827 Patch from Alain Williams
829 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
831 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
832 Patch from Andreas Metzler
834 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
835 Patch from Kirill Miazine
837 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
839 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
841 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
842 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
844 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
846 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
848 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
849 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
850 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
852 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
853 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
855 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
856 Patch by Simon Arlott
858 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
859 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
865 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
867 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
869 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
871 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
873 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
879 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
880 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
882 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
883 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
886 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
887 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
888 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
890 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
891 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
893 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
894 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
895 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
896 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
898 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
899 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
900 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
902 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
904 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
906 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
907 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
909 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
911 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
912 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
913 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
914 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
916 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
917 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
919 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
921 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
923 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
924 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
926 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
927 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
929 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
930 that they are available at delivery time.
932 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
934 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
935 incoming_port log selectors.
937 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
938 setting expands to an empty string.
940 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
941 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
943 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
944 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
946 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
947 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
949 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
950 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
952 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
953 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
955 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
956 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
958 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
960 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
961 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
963 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
964 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
966 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
968 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
969 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
971 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
973 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
975 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
978 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
979 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
981 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
982 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
984 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
985 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
987 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
988 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
990 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
991 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
993 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
994 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
996 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
997 plus update to original patch.
999 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
1001 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1002 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
1004 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
1006 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
1008 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
1010 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
1012 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
1013 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
1015 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1016 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
1018 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
1019 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1021 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1022 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1024 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1026 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1028 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1030 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1036 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1037 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1038 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1040 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1041 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1042 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1043 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1044 build errors in sieve.c.
1046 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1047 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1048 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1050 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1052 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1054 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1056 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1062 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1064 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1065 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1066 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1067 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1068 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1069 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1070 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1071 for iplsearch lookups.
1073 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1074 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1075 previously such lookups could never work.
1077 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1078 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1079 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1081 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1084 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1085 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1086 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1087 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1088 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1089 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1091 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1092 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1094 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1095 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1096 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1097 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1098 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1099 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1101 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1104 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1106 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1107 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1110 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1111 by clients under certain conditions.
1113 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1114 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1116 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1118 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1119 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1121 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1123 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1125 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1127 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1128 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1130 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1132 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1133 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1135 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1137 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1139 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1140 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1141 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1142 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1144 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1145 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1146 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1148 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1149 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1151 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1153 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1155 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1157 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1158 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1159 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1165 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1166 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1169 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1170 issue a MAIL command.
1172 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1174 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1176 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1177 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1178 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1179 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1180 item. This has been fixed.
1182 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1183 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1185 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1186 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1188 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1189 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1190 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1192 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1194 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1195 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1196 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1197 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1198 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1200 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1201 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1202 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1204 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1205 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1206 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1207 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1209 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1211 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1213 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1214 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1215 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1216 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1217 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1219 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1221 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1222 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1223 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1226 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1228 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1230 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1232 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1234 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1236 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1237 no_callout_flush is set.
1239 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1240 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1241 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1244 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1246 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1247 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1248 other ACL rejections are.
1250 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1251 with slight modification.
1253 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1254 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1256 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1257 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1260 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1261 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1263 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1265 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1266 expansion side effects.
1268 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1269 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1270 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1273 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1274 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1275 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1277 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1278 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1279 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1280 were accidentally chopped off.
1282 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1283 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1284 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1285 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1286 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1287 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1288 pipelining has not been advertised.
1290 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1292 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1293 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1294 This has been fixed.
1296 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1297 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1298 reported on Solaris.
1300 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1301 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1302 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1303 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1304 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1305 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1306 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1308 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1311 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1313 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1315 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1316 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1317 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1318 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1319 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1320 criteria to be more general.
1322 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1323 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1324 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1325 host_all_ignored option.
1327 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1328 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1329 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1330 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1331 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1332 is what is supposed to happen).
1334 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1335 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1336 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1337 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1338 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1341 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1342 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1343 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1344 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1345 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1346 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1349 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1351 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1352 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1354 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1355 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1357 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1359 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1361 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1362 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1363 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1364 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1365 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1366 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1367 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1368 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1369 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1370 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1371 least in a lot of common cases.
1373 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1374 advertised in response to EHLO.
1380 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1381 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1383 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1384 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1386 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1387 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1388 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1390 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1391 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1392 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1393 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1394 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1400 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1401 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1404 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1405 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1406 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1408 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1409 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1410 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1411 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1412 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1413 rather than extend the field.
1419 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1420 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1421 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1422 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1425 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1426 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1427 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1429 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1430 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1431 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1433 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1434 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1435 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1438 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1439 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1440 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1441 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1442 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1443 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1444 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1445 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1446 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1447 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1448 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1450 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1453 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1454 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1455 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1456 ignores EPIPE as well.
1458 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1459 (quoted-printable decoding).
1461 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1462 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1464 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1466 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1468 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1470 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1471 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1473 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1476 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1477 miscellaneous code fixes
1479 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1482 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1483 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1484 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1485 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1486 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1487 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1488 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1489 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1491 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1492 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1493 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1494 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1496 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1497 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1498 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1499 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1500 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1501 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1502 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1503 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1504 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1506 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1509 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1510 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1511 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1512 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1513 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1514 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1515 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1516 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1518 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1519 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1522 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1523 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1524 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1525 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1526 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1527 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1528 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1529 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1530 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1531 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1532 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1533 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1534 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1536 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1537 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1538 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1539 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1540 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1541 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1542 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1544 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1545 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1546 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1547 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1548 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1549 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1550 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1551 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1552 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1553 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1555 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1556 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1557 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1558 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1559 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1561 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1562 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1563 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1564 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1565 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1566 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1567 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1569 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1570 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1571 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1572 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1573 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1574 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1577 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1578 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1579 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1582 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1583 if any retry times were supplied.
1585 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1586 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1587 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1589 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1591 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1593 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1594 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1595 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1596 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1597 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1598 before) are ignored.
1600 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1601 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1603 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1604 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1605 committing the later change.]
1607 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1608 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1609 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1610 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1611 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1612 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1613 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1614 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1615 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1617 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1618 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1619 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1620 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1621 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1622 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1623 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1624 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1625 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1627 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1628 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1629 hammering the server.
1631 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1632 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1634 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1636 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1637 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1638 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1640 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1641 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1642 one case where this was not true.
1644 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1645 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1646 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1647 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1650 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1651 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1652 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1653 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1654 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1655 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1656 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1657 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1658 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1661 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1662 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1663 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1664 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1666 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1667 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1669 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1670 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1671 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1673 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1675 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1677 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1679 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1680 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1681 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1682 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1684 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1685 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1687 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1688 be meaningful with "accept".
1690 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1691 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1693 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1694 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1695 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1697 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1698 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1699 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1700 there is data to show.
1701 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1703 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1704 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1705 as well as the number of messages.
1707 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1708 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1709 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1711 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1712 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1713 have a flag are now skipped.
1715 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1716 Added the -emptyok flag.
1718 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1719 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1721 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1722 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1723 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1725 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1728 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1729 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1731 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1733 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1734 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1736 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1738 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1739 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1740 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1741 contravention of the specifications.
1743 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1744 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1745 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1747 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1748 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1749 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1751 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1753 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1754 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1755 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1756 some point in the past.
1758 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1759 transport during callout processing was broken.
1761 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1762 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1764 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1765 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1767 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1768 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1770 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1776 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1777 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1779 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1780 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1781 there is data to show.
1782 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1784 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1785 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1787 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1788 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1790 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1791 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1793 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1794 submissions from trusted users.
1796 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1797 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1799 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1800 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1801 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1802 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1803 there is now a framework to start from.
1805 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1806 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1807 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1809 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1811 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1813 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1815 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1816 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1817 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1819 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1822 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1823 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1824 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1826 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1827 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1828 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1831 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1832 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1833 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1834 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1835 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1837 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1838 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1840 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1842 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1843 operations in malware.c.
1845 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1848 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1849 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1850 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1853 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1854 statements to "add_header".
1856 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1857 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1859 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1860 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1863 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1867 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1868 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1869 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1872 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1873 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1875 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1876 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1878 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1879 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1880 any possible encoding problems.
1882 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1883 but not after initializing Perl.
1885 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1886 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1887 apparently, which is not desirable.
1889 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1892 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1895 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1897 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1898 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1899 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1900 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1902 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1903 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1904 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1906 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1907 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1908 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1911 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1912 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1913 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1914 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1915 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1921 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1922 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1924 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1927 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1928 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1929 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1930 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1931 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1932 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1933 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1934 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1937 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1939 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1940 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1941 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1943 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1944 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1945 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1948 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1949 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1951 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1952 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1953 option (which defaults to 0600).
1955 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1957 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1958 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1959 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1960 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1961 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1962 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1963 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1965 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1971 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1972 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1973 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1974 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1975 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1976 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1979 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1980 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1982 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1984 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1985 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1986 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1987 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1988 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1991 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1992 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1994 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1995 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1996 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1997 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1998 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2000 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2001 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2002 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2003 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2005 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2006 be the same on different OS.
2008 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2011 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2012 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2014 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2017 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2018 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2019 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2020 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2021 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2022 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2025 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2026 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2027 when Exim was called.
2029 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2030 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2032 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2033 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2034 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2035 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2037 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2038 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2039 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2040 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2043 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2044 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2045 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2047 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2048 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2049 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2051 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2054 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2055 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2056 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2057 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2058 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2059 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2060 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2061 values from the SRV records were lost.
2063 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2064 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2065 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2067 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2068 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2069 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2071 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2072 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2073 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2074 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2075 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2076 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2077 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2078 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2079 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2080 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2082 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2083 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2084 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2086 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2087 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2089 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2090 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2091 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2092 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2095 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2096 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2097 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2099 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2100 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2101 PH/23 above applies.
2103 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2104 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2105 (for which there is an explicit test).
2107 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2109 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2110 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2111 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2112 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2113 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2115 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2116 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2117 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2118 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2120 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2121 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2122 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2124 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2126 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2128 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2129 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2130 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2132 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2133 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2134 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2135 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2136 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2138 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2139 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2140 the message gets confusing).
2142 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2143 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2144 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2145 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2147 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2148 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2149 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2150 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2153 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2154 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2155 the different processes.
2157 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2159 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2161 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2162 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2164 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2165 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2167 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2168 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2169 messages matching specified criteria.
2171 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2173 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2174 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2176 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2177 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2178 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2179 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2180 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2181 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2182 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2183 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2184 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2185 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2187 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2188 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2189 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2191 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2193 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2194 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2195 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2196 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2197 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2198 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2199 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2202 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2203 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2205 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2207 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2209 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2211 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2212 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2213 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2214 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2215 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2216 size of the count of files.
2218 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2220 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2223 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2224 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2225 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2226 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2228 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2229 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2230 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2232 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2233 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2234 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2235 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2236 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2238 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2239 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2241 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2242 will now be deprecated.
2244 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2246 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2247 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2248 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2250 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2251 with very large, slow to parse queues
2253 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2255 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2257 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2258 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2259 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2262 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2263 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2264 Sieve code now uses this.
2266 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2267 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2269 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2270 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2272 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2274 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2275 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2276 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2277 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2278 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2280 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2281 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2282 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2283 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2285 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2287 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2289 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2290 is preferred over IPv4.
2292 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2293 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2294 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2295 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2296 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2297 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2298 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2300 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2301 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2302 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2304 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2306 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2307 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2308 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2309 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2310 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2311 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2312 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2313 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2314 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2315 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2316 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2318 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2319 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2320 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2326 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2328 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2329 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2331 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2332 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2333 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2335 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2337 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2340 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2343 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2344 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2345 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2348 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2349 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2351 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2352 inside the third argument.
2354 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2355 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2358 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2359 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2361 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2362 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2364 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2366 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2367 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2370 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2372 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2373 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2374 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2375 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2376 identical. For example:
2378 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2380 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2381 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2382 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2384 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2385 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2386 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2387 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2389 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2390 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2391 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2394 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2396 o fixes some comments
2397 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2398 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2399 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2400 and documents the missing references header update
2404 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2405 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2408 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2409 Electronic Mail") by including:
2411 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2413 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2414 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2415 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2416 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2417 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2419 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2421 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2423 The auto-replied keyword:
2425 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2426 message by an automatic process,
2428 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2430 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2431 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2433 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2434 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2437 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2438 to the default Received: header definition.
2440 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2442 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2443 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2444 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2446 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2447 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2448 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2450 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2451 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2452 and treats the condition as false.
2454 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2456 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2457 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2458 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2459 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2460 not changing the active code.
2462 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2463 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2465 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2466 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2468 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2471 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2472 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2473 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2474 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2475 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2476 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2477 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2478 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2479 the text comparison.
2481 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2482 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2483 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2484 The same fix has been applied.
2490 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2491 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2494 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2495 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2497 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2499 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2500 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2501 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2502 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2503 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2505 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2506 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2507 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2508 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2511 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2519 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2520 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2522 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2524 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2526 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2527 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2528 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2530 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2531 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2532 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2534 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2535 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2538 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2539 ${stat: expansion item.
2541 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2542 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2544 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2545 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2548 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2550 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2553 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2554 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2556 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2558 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2559 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2560 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2561 the end of the subprocess.
2563 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2564 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2565 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2566 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2567 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2569 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2571 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2573 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2574 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2576 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2578 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2580 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2581 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2584 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2586 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2587 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2588 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2590 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2591 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2593 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2594 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2596 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2597 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2599 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2600 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2602 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2603 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2604 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2605 contributed by a Radius user.
2607 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2608 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2610 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2611 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2613 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2616 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2617 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2620 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2621 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2622 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2623 header lines when this was not necessary.
2625 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2627 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2628 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2629 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2632 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2635 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2636 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2637 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2638 return code was incorrect.
2640 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2642 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2644 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2646 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2648 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2649 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2650 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2651 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2652 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2655 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2657 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2658 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2659 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2660 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2661 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2662 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2663 which is clearly wrong.
2665 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2667 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2668 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2669 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2672 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2673 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2675 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2677 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2678 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2680 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2681 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2683 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2684 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2686 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2687 recipients, not senders.
2689 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2690 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2692 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2694 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2696 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2697 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2698 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2699 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2701 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2703 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2704 clock is set back in time.
2706 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2707 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2709 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2710 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2712 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2713 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2716 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2717 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2720 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2723 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2725 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2726 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2727 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2729 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2730 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2731 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2732 helo verification defer as a failure.
2734 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2735 actual error message.
2741 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2743 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2744 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2745 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2746 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2748 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2750 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2751 can still be requested.
2753 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2754 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2755 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2756 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2758 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2759 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2760 circumstances, but probably never did.
2762 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2763 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2764 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2767 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2769 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2770 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2772 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2774 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2776 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2777 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2778 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2779 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2780 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2781 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2783 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2784 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2785 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2786 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2787 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2788 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2790 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2791 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2793 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2794 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2796 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2797 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2799 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2801 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2803 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2805 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2807 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2809 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2811 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2813 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2814 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2815 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2817 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2818 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2819 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2820 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2822 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2823 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2824 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2826 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2827 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2828 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2829 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2831 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2832 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2835 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2836 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2837 should work with maildirs and everything.
2839 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2840 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2842 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2845 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2846 function for BDB 4.3.
2848 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2850 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2851 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2854 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2855 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2856 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2857 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2858 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2859 formatting function string_vformat().
2861 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2862 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2863 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2864 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2865 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2866 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2867 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2868 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2870 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2871 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2874 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2875 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2877 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2878 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2879 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2880 test. It is now used for both.
2882 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2883 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2884 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2885 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2886 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2887 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2889 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2890 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2891 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2894 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2895 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2896 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2898 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2899 experimental DomainKeys support:
2901 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2902 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2903 the control was given.
2905 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2907 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2909 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2911 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2912 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2913 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2916 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2917 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2918 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2919 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2920 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2921 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2924 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2925 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2926 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2927 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2928 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2929 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2931 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2932 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2933 do -d+all out of habit.
2935 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2936 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2939 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2940 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2941 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2942 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2943 record types that Exim uses.
2945 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2946 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2947 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2948 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2949 non-existent file that was broken.
2951 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2952 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2954 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2955 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2956 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2958 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2960 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2961 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2962 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2963 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2964 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2967 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2968 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2969 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2970 at a slight CPU cost.
2972 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2973 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2975 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2978 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2980 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2981 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2987 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2988 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2990 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2992 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2994 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2995 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2997 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2998 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2999 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3000 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3001 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3002 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3005 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3006 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3007 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3008 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3011 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3012 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3013 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3014 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3015 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3016 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3017 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3020 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3021 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3023 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3024 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3025 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3026 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3027 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3028 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3030 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3031 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3032 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3033 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3035 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3038 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3039 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3041 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3042 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3043 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3044 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3047 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3049 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3050 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3052 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3053 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3054 to what was transported.)
3056 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3058 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3059 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3060 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3061 spamd_address settings.
3063 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3064 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3065 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3066 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3067 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3069 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3071 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3072 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3073 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3074 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3075 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3077 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3078 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3080 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3081 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3082 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3083 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3084 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3085 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3086 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3089 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3090 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3091 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3092 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3093 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3094 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3095 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3098 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3100 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3101 driver and ACL definitions.
3103 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3104 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3106 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3107 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3108 understands it better than I do:
3110 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3111 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3113 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3114 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3115 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3116 => three warnings about OTP not working
3117 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3119 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3120 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3121 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3122 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3124 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3125 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3127 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3128 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3129 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3131 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3132 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3135 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3136 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3139 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3140 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3141 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3143 warn !verify = sender
3144 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3146 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3147 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3149 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3151 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3152 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3154 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3155 nomenclature these days.)
3157 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3158 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3160 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3161 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3162 . First host does not offer TLS;
3163 . First host accepts first address;
3164 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3165 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3166 . Second host accepts second address.
3167 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3168 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3171 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3172 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3173 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3174 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3175 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3177 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3178 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3180 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3181 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3183 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3184 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3185 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3187 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3188 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3191 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3193 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3194 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3195 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3196 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3197 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3198 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3199 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3201 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3202 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3203 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3204 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3205 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3207 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3208 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3211 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3212 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3213 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3214 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3215 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3216 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3218 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3220 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3221 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3222 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3223 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3224 printable escape sequences.
3226 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3227 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3230 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3231 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3234 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3235 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3236 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3237 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3238 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3240 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3241 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3242 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3244 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3246 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3247 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3250 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3251 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3252 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3253 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3254 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3255 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3256 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3257 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3258 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3261 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3262 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3263 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3264 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3268 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3269 ----------------------------------------
3271 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3272 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3273 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3274 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3275 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3276 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3279 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3280 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3281 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3282 historical information.
3288 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3290 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3291 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3293 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3294 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3297 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3298 filter fails to execute.
3300 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3301 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3302 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3303 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3304 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3306 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3308 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3309 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3310 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3311 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3313 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3314 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3315 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3316 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3317 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3319 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3321 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3323 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3324 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3325 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3326 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3328 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3329 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3330 sender verification.
3332 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3333 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3335 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3337 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3340 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3341 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3343 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3344 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3346 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3347 information about exactly what failed.
3349 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3351 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3352 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3353 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3355 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3356 It is now set to "smtps".
3358 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3359 ignore_target_hosts.
3361 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3362 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3363 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3364 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3367 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3368 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3369 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3371 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3372 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3373 wake it up if nothing else does.
3375 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3376 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3377 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3380 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3381 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3383 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3385 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3386 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3387 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3388 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3389 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3390 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3391 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3392 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3394 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3395 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3396 than one IP address.
3398 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3399 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3400 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3401 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3403 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3404 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3405 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3406 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3407 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3410 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3411 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3412 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3413 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3415 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3416 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3419 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3420 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3421 $sender_host_address.
3423 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3424 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3425 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3426 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3427 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3430 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3432 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3433 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3435 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3436 just the host names, not the priorities.
3438 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3439 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3440 controlled by a keyword.
3442 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3443 multiple records are returned.
3445 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3446 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3449 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3451 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3452 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3454 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3455 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3456 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3458 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3460 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3462 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3464 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3465 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3466 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3467 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3468 because the tests only now provoked it.
3470 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3471 (this can affect the format of dates).
3473 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3474 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3475 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3476 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3478 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3480 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3481 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3482 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3483 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3485 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3486 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3487 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3489 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3492 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3493 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3494 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3495 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3496 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3497 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3500 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3501 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3502 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3505 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3506 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3507 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3509 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3510 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3511 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3512 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3513 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3514 so I produce this patch..."
3516 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3517 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3520 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3521 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3522 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3523 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3526 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3528 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3529 long debug lines gets shown.
3531 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3532 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3534 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3536 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3537 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3538 of $primary_hostname.
3540 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3541 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3542 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3543 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3544 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3545 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3546 by change 4.50/55 above.
3548 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3549 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3550 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3551 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3552 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3553 running as the user.
3556 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3557 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3558 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3561 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3562 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3564 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3565 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3566 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3567 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3568 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3570 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3571 This has been fixed.
3573 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3574 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3575 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3576 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3579 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3581 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3582 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3583 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3584 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3586 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3587 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3589 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3590 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3591 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3593 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3594 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3595 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3598 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3599 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3600 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3602 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3603 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3604 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3605 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3607 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3608 during host lookups.
3610 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3611 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3613 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3615 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3616 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3617 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3618 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3619 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3622 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3623 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3625 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3626 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3627 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3629 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3631 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3632 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3633 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3634 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3635 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3636 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3639 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3640 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3641 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3642 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3643 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3645 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3648 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3650 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3651 "vacation" handling.
3653 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3654 OS variants using glibc.
3656 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3659 ----------------------------------------------------
3660 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3661 ----------------------------------------------------
3667 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3668 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3671 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3672 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3675 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3676 filter fails to execute.
3678 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3679 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3680 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3681 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3682 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3684 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3685 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3686 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3687 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3689 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3690 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3691 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3692 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3693 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3695 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3697 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3698 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3699 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3700 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3702 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3703 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3704 sender verification.
3706 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3707 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3709 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3710 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3712 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3713 ignore_target_hosts.
3715 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3716 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3717 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3718 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3721 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3722 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3723 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3725 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3726 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3727 wake it up if nothing else does.
3729 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3730 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3731 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3734 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3735 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3737 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3739 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3740 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3743 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3744 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3747 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3748 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3749 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3750 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3751 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3754 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3755 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3758 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3759 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3760 $sender_host_address.
3762 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3764 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3765 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3766 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3768 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3771 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3772 (this can affect the format of dates).
3774 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3775 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3776 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3777 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3779 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3780 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3781 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3783 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3784 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3785 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3786 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3788 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3789 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3790 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3792 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3795 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3796 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3797 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3798 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3799 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3800 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3803 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3804 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3805 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3806 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3809 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3810 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3811 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3812 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3813 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3814 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3815 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3817 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3818 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3819 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3820 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3821 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3822 running as the user.
3825 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3826 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3827 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3830 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3831 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3832 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3833 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3834 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3836 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3837 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3838 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3839 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3842 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3843 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3844 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3845 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3846 because the tests only now provoked it.
3852 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3853 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3854 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3855 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3856 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3857 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3858 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3860 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3861 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3864 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3866 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3868 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3869 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3872 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3873 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3874 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3875 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3876 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3878 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3879 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3881 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3883 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3885 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3888 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3889 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3891 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3892 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3893 affecting debugging statements).
3895 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3897 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3898 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3899 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3900 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3901 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3902 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3903 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3904 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3905 after the received time, and all would be well.
3907 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3908 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3909 condition in an expansion string.
3911 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3913 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3914 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3915 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3916 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3917 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3918 job under whatever limits there are.
3920 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3922 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3925 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3926 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3927 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3928 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3931 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3932 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3933 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3934 binary data in such strings.
3936 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3938 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3939 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3940 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3941 failure, which is pointless.
3943 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3945 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3947 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3948 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3949 Sender: header lines.
3951 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3952 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3953 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3955 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3956 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3957 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3958 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3959 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3962 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3963 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3964 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3965 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3966 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3968 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3969 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3970 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3973 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3974 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3976 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3977 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3979 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3981 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3983 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3985 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3988 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3990 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3992 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3993 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3994 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3995 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3997 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3998 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4004 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4005 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4006 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4008 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4009 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4010 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4011 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4012 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4013 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4015 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4016 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4017 verification failure".
4019 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4020 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4021 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4022 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4024 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4025 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4026 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4027 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4028 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4029 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4030 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4031 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4032 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4033 treated as a timeout.
4035 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4036 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4037 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4038 not set for Exim filters).
4040 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4041 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4042 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4044 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4046 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4047 try to make them clearer.
4049 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4050 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4052 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4054 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4056 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4057 only the Cygwin environment.
4059 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4060 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4061 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4062 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4063 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4065 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4066 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4067 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4068 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4069 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4070 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4071 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4073 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4074 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4076 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4078 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4079 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4080 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4082 To: susanne@some.where
4084 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4085 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4086 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4087 of addresses in From: header lines).
4089 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4090 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4091 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4093 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4094 treated as non-personal.
4096 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4097 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4099 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4101 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4103 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4104 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4105 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4107 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4108 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4110 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4111 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4112 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4113 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4114 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4115 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4117 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4118 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4119 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4120 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4121 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4122 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4123 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4124 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4126 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4128 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4129 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4131 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4132 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4133 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4135 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4136 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4138 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4139 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4140 rather than long int.
4142 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4144 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4150 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4151 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4152 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4153 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4154 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4155 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4161 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4162 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4164 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4165 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4166 socklen_t is defined.
4168 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4171 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4174 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4175 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4176 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4177 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4178 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4180 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4181 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4182 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4183 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4185 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4186 of flapping under certain conditions.
4188 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4189 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4190 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4192 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4194 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4196 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4197 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4198 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4199 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4201 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4202 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4203 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4204 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4205 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4206 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4207 preserved with the message after it was received.
4209 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4210 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4211 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4212 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4213 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4214 test suite worked just fine.
4216 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4217 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4218 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4220 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4221 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4224 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4225 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4226 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4227 does not fully solve it.
4229 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4230 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4231 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4232 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4233 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4235 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4236 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4237 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4239 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4240 string, for example:
4242 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4244 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4245 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4246 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4247 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4248 the routers could not see them.
4250 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4251 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4253 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4254 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4257 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4258 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4259 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4260 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4261 that needed quoting.
4263 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4264 was not being matched caselessly.
4266 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4269 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4270 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4271 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4272 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4273 when use_sender is false.
4275 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4277 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4279 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4281 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4282 the configuration file.
4284 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4285 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4287 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4289 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4290 bytes in the message body.
4292 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4293 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4296 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4298 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4300 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4301 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4302 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4303 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4310 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4311 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4313 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4314 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4315 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4316 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4317 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4319 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4320 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4322 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4323 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4324 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4326 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4327 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4328 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4330 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4333 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4334 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4335 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4336 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4337 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4338 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4339 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4345 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4346 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4347 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4348 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4349 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4350 default (and expected) setting.
4352 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4353 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4354 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4355 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4357 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4358 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4360 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4363 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4364 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4365 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4366 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4367 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4368 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4370 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4371 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4372 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4374 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4375 part (NOT match_host).
4377 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4379 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4380 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4381 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4382 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4383 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4384 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4385 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4386 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4387 the same named file.
4389 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4390 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4393 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4394 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4395 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4396 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4399 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4400 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4401 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4403 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4405 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4407 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4409 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4410 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4412 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4413 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4414 before starting the TLS session.
4416 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4418 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4419 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4421 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4422 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4423 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4424 colon in the middle).
4430 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4431 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4432 multiple configurations are in use.
4434 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4435 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4436 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4437 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4438 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4439 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4441 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4442 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4444 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4445 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4446 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4448 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4449 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4452 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4453 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4455 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4457 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4458 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4460 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4468 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4469 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4470 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4471 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4472 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4474 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4477 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4478 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4479 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4480 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4481 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4482 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4484 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4485 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4486 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4487 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4488 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4489 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4490 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4493 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4494 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4495 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4496 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4497 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4499 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4501 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4502 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4503 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4505 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4507 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4508 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4509 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4512 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4513 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4515 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4516 Three changes have been made:
4518 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4519 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4520 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4521 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4522 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4524 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4527 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4528 the modified behaviour.
4534 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4537 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4538 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4540 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4541 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4542 try to track down a specific problem.
4544 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4545 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4546 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4548 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4551 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4552 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4553 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4554 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4555 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4556 some earlier ones do not.
4558 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4560 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4561 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4562 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4563 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4564 address literals are enabled, of course).
4566 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4568 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4569 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4570 by a command such as
4574 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4576 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4578 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4579 remained set. It is now erased.
4581 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4582 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4584 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4585 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4586 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4587 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4588 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4589 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4590 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4591 appropriate error code.
4593 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4594 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4595 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4596 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4597 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4598 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4600 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4601 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4602 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4604 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4605 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4606 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4607 terminate the header.
4609 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4610 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4611 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4613 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4614 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4615 (4.30/29). In particular:
4617 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4620 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4621 to write a maildirsize file.
4623 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4624 the transport, the new value overrides.
4626 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4629 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4630 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4631 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4634 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4635 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4636 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4639 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4640 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4641 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4643 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4644 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4647 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4648 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4649 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4651 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4653 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4655 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4657 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4658 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4661 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4662 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4663 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4664 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4665 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4666 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4667 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4670 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4671 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4672 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4673 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4674 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4677 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4678 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4679 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4680 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4681 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4682 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4683 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4684 cached value only when the same options are set.
4686 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4688 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4689 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4690 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4691 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4692 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4694 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4695 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4696 it is clearly obsolete.
4698 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4701 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4702 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4703 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4706 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4707 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4708 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4709 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4710 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4712 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4713 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4714 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4715 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4717 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4719 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4721 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4722 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4725 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4726 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4727 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4728 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4729 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4730 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4733 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4734 with the -f command-line option.
4736 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4737 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4738 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4739 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4740 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4741 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4743 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4744 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4747 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4748 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4749 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4750 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4751 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4752 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4753 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4754 buffer is too small.
4756 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4757 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4759 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4760 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4761 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4762 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4763 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4764 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4765 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4766 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4767 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4769 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4770 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4771 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4773 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4774 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4777 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4778 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4779 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4780 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4781 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4783 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4784 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4785 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4786 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4789 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4791 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4793 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4794 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4796 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4797 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4798 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4800 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4801 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4802 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4803 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4804 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4806 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4807 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4808 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4809 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4810 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4811 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4812 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4814 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4815 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4816 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4817 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4818 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4819 the test of how many are available.
4821 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4822 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4823 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4824 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4825 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4826 new message is started.
4828 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4829 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4831 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4832 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4834 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4835 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4836 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4839 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4840 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4841 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4842 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4843 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4844 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4845 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4847 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4848 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4849 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4850 interpreted as octal.
4852 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4855 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4856 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4857 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4858 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4859 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4860 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4862 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4863 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4864 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4865 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4867 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4868 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4869 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4870 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4872 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4873 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4876 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4877 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4879 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4881 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4882 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4883 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4884 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4886 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4887 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4888 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4889 supplied", which is not helpful.
4891 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4892 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4893 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4895 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4896 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4897 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4898 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4899 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4900 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4901 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4902 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4904 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4905 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4906 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4907 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4908 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4910 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4911 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4912 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4913 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4914 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4915 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4917 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4918 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4919 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4921 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4923 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4924 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4925 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4928 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4930 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4931 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4932 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4933 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4934 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4935 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4936 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4937 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4939 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4940 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4941 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4942 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4943 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4945 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4948 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4949 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4950 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4951 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4952 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4953 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4954 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4955 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4956 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4962 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4963 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4964 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4966 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4969 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4970 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4971 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4973 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4974 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4975 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4976 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4977 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4978 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4980 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4981 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4982 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4983 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4984 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4985 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4986 the Exim test suite.
4988 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4989 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4990 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4991 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4993 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4994 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4995 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4996 specify it in this variable.
4998 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4999 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5000 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5001 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5003 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5004 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5005 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5006 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5008 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5009 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5010 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5011 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5012 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5014 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5016 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5019 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5020 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5021 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5022 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5023 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5025 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5026 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5028 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5029 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5030 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5031 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5032 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5034 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5035 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5037 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5038 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5039 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5041 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5042 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5044 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5045 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5047 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5048 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5049 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5051 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5052 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5054 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5055 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5056 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5057 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5059 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5061 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5062 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5063 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5064 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5066 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5068 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5069 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5071 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5073 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5074 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5075 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5076 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5077 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5078 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5080 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5082 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5083 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5086 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5088 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5089 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5091 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5092 550 Sender verify failed
5094 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5095 the final line of the response.
5097 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5098 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5099 all other user lookups.
5101 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5104 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5105 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5106 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5107 result into an int without checking.
5109 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5110 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5111 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5113 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5114 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5115 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5116 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5118 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5121 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5122 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5124 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5125 to the empty sender.
5127 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5128 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5129 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5130 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5131 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5132 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5133 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5136 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5137 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5138 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5139 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5142 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5143 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5145 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5148 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5149 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5151 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5153 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5154 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5157 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5158 as soon as it is encountered.
5160 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5162 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5165 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5166 recognizes a tab character.
5168 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5169 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5170 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5171 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5173 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5175 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5178 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5180 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5182 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5183 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5186 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5187 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5188 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5189 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5190 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5192 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5193 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5195 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5196 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5197 list (.included file names were always shown).
5199 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5200 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5201 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5204 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5205 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5207 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5209 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5211 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5213 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5214 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5215 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5216 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5217 failures to open the logs.
5219 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5220 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5221 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5222 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5223 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5224 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5225 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5231 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5232 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5233 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5236 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5237 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5238 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5240 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5241 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5242 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5244 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5245 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5246 causing some misleading effects.
5248 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5249 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5250 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5252 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5253 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5254 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5255 queue-runner function directly.
5261 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5264 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5265 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5266 was always written to the default place.
5268 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5269 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5270 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5272 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5274 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5276 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5277 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5278 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5280 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5281 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5284 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5285 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5286 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5288 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5289 command line option is disabled.
5291 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5292 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5294 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5296 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5298 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5299 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5301 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5303 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5304 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5305 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5306 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5307 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5308 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5310 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5311 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5314 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5315 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5317 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5318 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5320 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5321 received was valid base64.
5323 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5324 name of the variable that was being set.
5326 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5328 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5329 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5330 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5331 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5332 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5333 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5335 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5337 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5338 nor realm was specified.
5340 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5341 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5342 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5343 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5345 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5346 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5347 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5349 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5350 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5351 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5353 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5354 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5355 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5356 some systems use these upper case variants.
5358 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5359 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5360 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5361 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5363 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5365 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5366 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5368 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5369 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5372 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5374 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5375 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5376 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5377 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5379 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5382 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5383 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5384 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5386 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5387 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5389 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5390 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5391 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5392 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5394 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5395 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5396 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5398 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5400 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5401 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5402 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5403 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5406 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5407 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5408 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5410 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5412 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5413 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5415 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5416 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5418 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5419 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5420 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5421 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5422 when emails are that large.
5429 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5430 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5432 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5433 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5434 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5436 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5437 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5438 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5440 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5441 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5442 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5443 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5444 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5446 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5447 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5448 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5449 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5450 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5453 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5454 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5455 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5456 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5457 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5458 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5459 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5460 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5461 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5462 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5463 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5464 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5465 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5466 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5468 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5469 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5472 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5473 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5474 error should be diagnosed.
5476 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5477 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5478 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5479 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5480 appeared instead of "NULL".
5482 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5483 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5484 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5485 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5486 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5487 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5490 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5491 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5492 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5498 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5499 or receiver verification errors.
5501 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5504 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5505 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5506 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5507 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5509 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5510 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5511 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5512 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5513 shouldn't happen again.
5515 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5516 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5517 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5519 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5520 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5522 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5524 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5525 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5527 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5528 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5531 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5532 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5533 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5535 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5536 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5537 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5538 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5540 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5541 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5542 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5543 to define what should happen).
5545 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5546 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5547 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5549 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5551 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5553 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5554 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5556 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5557 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5558 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5559 structure in all cases.
5561 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5562 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5563 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5564 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5566 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5567 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5570 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5571 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5573 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5574 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5576 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5577 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5578 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5580 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5581 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5582 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5584 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5585 the book and for uniformity.
5587 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5589 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5590 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5591 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5592 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5593 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5594 non-existent command as the problem.
5596 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5597 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5598 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5600 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5602 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5603 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5604 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5606 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5607 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5608 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5609 timestamps using strftime().
5611 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5612 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5614 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5615 transport-time rewrites.
5617 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5618 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5619 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5620 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5622 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5623 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5625 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5626 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5627 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5628 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5631 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5632 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5633 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5634 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5635 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5636 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5637 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5639 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5640 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5641 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5642 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5643 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5645 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5646 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5647 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5648 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5649 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5650 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5651 remaining text gets split now.
5653 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5654 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5655 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5656 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5658 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5659 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5660 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5661 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5664 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5665 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5666 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5667 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5668 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5669 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5670 passed through if needed.
5672 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5673 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5674 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5675 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5676 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5677 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5679 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5680 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5681 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5682 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5683 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5685 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5686 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5687 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5688 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5689 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5691 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5692 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5695 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5696 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5697 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5698 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5699 mayhem of various kinds.
5701 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5702 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5703 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5704 the right test for positive values.
5706 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5707 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5708 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5709 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5710 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5711 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5712 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5713 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5714 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5715 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5718 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5721 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5722 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5725 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5726 the existing equality matching.
5728 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5729 dealing with inode numbers.
5731 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5732 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5733 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5735 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5736 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5737 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5738 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5741 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5742 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5743 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5744 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5745 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5746 relay addresses has also been removed.
5748 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5750 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5751 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5752 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5754 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5755 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5756 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5757 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5758 processing applies to CR:
5760 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5761 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5763 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5764 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5765 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5766 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5768 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5769 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5770 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5772 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5773 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5774 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5775 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5776 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5777 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5780 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5783 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5784 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5785 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5786 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5789 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5791 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5793 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5795 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5796 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5797 not considered personal.
5799 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5801 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5803 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5805 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5806 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5807 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5808 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5809 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5810 header lines, and spool format errors.
5812 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5813 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5814 for more flexibility.
5816 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5817 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5818 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5820 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5823 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5824 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5825 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5826 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5827 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5828 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5829 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5830 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5831 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5833 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5834 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5835 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5836 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5837 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5838 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5839 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5841 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5842 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5843 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5845 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5846 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5847 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5848 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5849 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5850 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5851 instead of killing the process with assert().
5853 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5854 than Unicode encoding.
5856 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5857 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5858 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5859 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5861 77. Added process_log_path.
5863 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5864 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5866 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5867 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5869 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5870 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5871 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5873 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5874 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5875 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5876 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5877 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5880 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5881 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5884 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5885 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5886 they will be used during message reception.
5892 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.