1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.632 2010/06/12 15:21:25 jetmore Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
11 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
12 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
14 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
16 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
18 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
25 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
28 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
29 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
30 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
32 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
33 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
35 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
36 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
37 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
39 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
40 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
42 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
43 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
45 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
46 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
48 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
49 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
51 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
52 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
54 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
57 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
58 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
60 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
61 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
63 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
64 SQL string expansion failure details.
65 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
67 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
68 Patch from Simon Arlott.
70 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
71 extern declarations in function scope.
72 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
74 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
75 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
76 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
79 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
80 Patch from Mark Zealey.
82 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
83 Patch from Mark Zealey.
85 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
86 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
88 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
89 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
91 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
92 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
95 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
97 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
99 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
100 Patch by Simon Arlott
102 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
103 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
109 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
110 consequences so log it to the panic log.
112 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
113 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
115 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
117 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
118 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
119 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
121 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
122 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
123 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
125 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
126 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
127 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
128 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
130 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
131 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
132 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
133 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
135 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
136 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
137 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
140 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
143 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
144 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
145 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
146 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
147 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
153 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
154 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
155 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
157 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
158 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
160 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
162 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
164 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
166 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
168 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
170 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
171 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
172 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
173 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
175 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
176 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
177 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
178 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
179 more caution in buffer sizes.
181 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
183 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
185 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
187 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
189 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
191 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
193 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
195 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
196 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
197 ignore trailing whitespace.
199 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
201 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
204 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
205 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
207 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
208 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
209 Notification from John Horne.
211 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
214 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
215 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
218 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
221 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
222 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
223 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
225 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
226 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
227 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
230 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
231 option (effectively making it always true).
233 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
234 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
236 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
237 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
239 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
240 run-time user, instead of root.
242 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overriden by the
243 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
245 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
246 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
249 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
250 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
251 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
253 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
255 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
261 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
262 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
265 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
266 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
269 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
270 Patch from Alain Williams
272 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
274 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
275 Patch from Andreas Metzler
277 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
278 Patch from Kirill Miazine
280 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
282 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
284 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
285 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
287 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
289 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
291 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
292 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
293 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
295 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
296 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
298 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
299 Patch by Simon Arlott
301 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
302 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
308 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
310 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
312 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
314 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
316 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
322 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
323 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
325 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
326 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
329 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
330 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
331 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
333 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
334 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
336 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
337 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
338 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
339 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
341 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
342 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
343 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
345 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
347 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
349 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
350 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
352 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
354 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
355 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
356 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
357 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
359 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
360 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
362 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
364 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
366 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
367 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
369 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
370 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
372 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
373 that they are available at delivery time.
375 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
377 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
378 incoming_port log selectors.
380 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
381 setting expands to an empty string.
383 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
384 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
386 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
387 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
389 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
390 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
392 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
393 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
395 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
396 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
398 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
399 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
401 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
403 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
404 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
406 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
407 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
409 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
411 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
412 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
414 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
416 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
418 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
421 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
422 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
424 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
425 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
427 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
428 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
430 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
431 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
433 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
434 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
436 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
437 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
439 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
440 plus update to original patch.
442 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
444 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
445 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
447 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
449 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
451 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
453 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
455 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
456 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
458 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
459 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
461 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
462 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
464 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
465 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
467 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
469 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
471 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
473 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
479 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
480 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
481 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
483 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
484 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
485 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
486 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
487 build errors in sieve.c.
489 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
490 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
491 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
493 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
495 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
497 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
499 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
505 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
507 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
508 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
509 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
510 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
511 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
512 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
513 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
514 for iplsearch lookups.
516 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
517 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
518 previously such lookups could never work.
520 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
521 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
522 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
524 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
527 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
528 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
529 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
530 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
531 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
532 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
534 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
535 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
537 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
538 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
539 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
540 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
541 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
542 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
544 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
547 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
549 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
550 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
553 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
554 by clients under certain conditions.
556 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
557 "_responses" off the end of the name.
559 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
561 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
562 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
564 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
566 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
568 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
570 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
571 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
573 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
575 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
576 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
578 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
580 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
582 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
583 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
584 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
585 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
587 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
588 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
589 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
591 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
592 and InterBase are left for another time.)
594 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
596 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
598 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
600 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
601 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
602 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
608 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
609 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
612 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
613 issue a MAIL command.
615 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
617 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
619 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
620 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
621 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
622 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
623 item. This has been fixed.
625 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
626 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
628 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
629 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
631 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
632 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
633 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
635 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
637 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
638 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
639 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
640 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
641 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
643 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
644 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
645 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
647 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
648 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
649 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
650 the server_setid option was incorrect.
652 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
654 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
656 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
657 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
658 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
659 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
660 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
662 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
664 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
665 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
666 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
669 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
671 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
673 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
675 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
677 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
679 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
680 no_callout_flush is set.
682 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
683 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
684 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
687 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
689 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
690 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
691 other ACL rejections are.
693 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
694 with slight modification.
696 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
697 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
699 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
700 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
703 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
704 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
706 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
708 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
709 expansion side effects.
711 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
712 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
713 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
716 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
717 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
718 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
720 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
721 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
722 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
723 were accidentally chopped off.
725 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
726 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
727 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
728 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
729 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
730 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
731 pipelining has not been advertised.
733 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
735 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
736 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
739 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
740 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
743 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
744 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
745 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
746 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
747 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
748 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
749 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
751 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
754 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
756 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
758 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
759 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
760 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
761 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
762 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
763 criteria to be more general.
765 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
766 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
767 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
768 host_all_ignored option.
770 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
771 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
772 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
773 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
774 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
775 is what is supposed to happen).
777 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
778 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
779 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
780 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
781 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
784 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
785 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
786 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
787 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
788 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
789 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
792 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
794 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
795 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
797 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
798 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
800 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
802 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
804 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
805 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
806 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
807 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
808 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
809 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
810 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
811 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
812 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
813 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
814 least in a lot of common cases.
816 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
817 advertised in response to EHLO.
823 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
824 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
826 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
827 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
829 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
830 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
831 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
833 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
834 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
835 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
836 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
837 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
843 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
844 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
847 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
848 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
849 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
851 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
852 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
853 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
854 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
855 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
856 rather than extend the field.
862 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
863 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
864 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
865 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
868 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
869 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
870 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
872 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
873 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
874 hence the _LINUX specificness.
876 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
877 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
878 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
881 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
882 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
883 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
884 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
885 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
886 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
887 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
888 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
889 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
890 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
891 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
893 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
896 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
897 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
898 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
899 ignores EPIPE as well.
901 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
902 (quoted-printable decoding).
904 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
905 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
907 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
909 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
911 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
913 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
914 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
916 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
919 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
920 miscellaneous code fixes
922 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
925 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
926 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
927 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
928 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
929 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
930 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
931 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
932 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
934 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
935 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
936 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
937 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
939 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
940 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
941 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
942 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
943 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
944 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
945 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
946 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
947 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
949 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
952 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
953 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
954 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
955 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
956 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
957 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
958 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
959 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
961 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
962 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
965 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
966 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
967 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
968 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
969 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
970 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
971 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
972 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
973 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
974 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
975 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
976 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
977 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
979 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
980 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
981 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
982 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
983 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
984 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
985 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
987 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
988 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
989 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
990 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
991 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
992 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
993 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
994 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
995 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
996 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
998 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
999 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1000 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1001 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1002 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1004 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1005 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1006 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1007 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1008 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1009 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1010 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1012 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1013 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1014 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1015 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1016 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1017 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1020 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1021 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1022 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1025 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1026 if any retry times were supplied.
1028 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1029 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1030 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1032 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1034 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1036 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1037 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1038 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1039 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1040 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1041 before) are ignored.
1043 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1044 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1046 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1047 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1048 committing the later change.]
1050 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1051 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1052 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1053 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1054 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1055 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1056 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1057 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1058 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1060 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1061 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1062 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1063 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1064 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1065 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1066 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1067 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1068 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1070 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1071 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1072 hammering the server.
1074 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1075 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1077 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1079 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1080 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1081 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1083 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1084 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1085 one case where this was not true.
1087 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1088 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1089 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1090 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1093 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1094 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1095 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1096 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1097 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1098 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1099 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1100 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1101 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1104 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1105 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1106 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1107 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1109 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1110 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1112 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1113 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1114 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1116 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1118 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1120 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1122 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1123 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1124 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1125 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1127 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1128 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1130 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1131 be meaningful with "accept".
1133 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1134 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1136 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1137 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1138 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1140 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1141 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1142 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1143 there is data to show.
1144 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1146 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1147 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1148 as well as the number of messages.
1150 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1151 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1152 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1154 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1155 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1156 have a flag are now skipped.
1158 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1159 Added the -emptyok flag.
1161 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1162 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1164 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1165 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1166 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1168 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1171 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1172 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1174 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1176 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1177 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1179 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1181 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1182 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1183 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1184 contravention of the specifications.
1186 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1187 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1188 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1190 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1191 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1192 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1194 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1196 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1197 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1198 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1199 some point in the past.
1201 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1202 transport during callout processing was broken.
1204 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1205 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1207 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1208 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1210 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1211 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1213 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1219 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1220 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1222 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1223 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1224 there is data to show.
1225 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1227 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1228 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1230 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1231 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1233 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1234 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1236 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1237 submissions from trusted users.
1239 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1240 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1242 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1243 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1244 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1245 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1246 there is now a framework to start from.
1248 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1249 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1250 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1252 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1254 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1256 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1258 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1259 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1260 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1262 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1265 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1266 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1267 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1269 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1270 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1271 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1274 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1275 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1276 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1277 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1278 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1280 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1281 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1283 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1285 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1286 operations in malware.c.
1288 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1291 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1292 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1293 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1296 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1297 statements to "add_header".
1299 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1300 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1302 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1303 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1306 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1310 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1311 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1312 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1315 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1316 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1318 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1319 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1321 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1322 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1323 any possible encoding problems.
1325 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1326 but not after initializing Perl.
1328 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1329 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1330 apparently, which is not desirable.
1332 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1335 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1338 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1340 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1341 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1342 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1343 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1345 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1346 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1347 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1349 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1350 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1351 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1354 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1355 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1356 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1357 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1358 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1364 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1365 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1367 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1370 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1371 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1372 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1373 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1374 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1375 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1376 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1377 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1380 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1382 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1383 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1384 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1386 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1387 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1388 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1391 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1392 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1394 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1395 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1396 option (which defaults to 0600).
1398 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1400 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1401 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1402 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1403 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1404 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1405 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1406 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1408 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1414 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1415 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1416 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1417 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1418 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1419 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1422 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1423 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1425 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1427 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1428 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1429 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1430 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1431 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1434 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1435 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1437 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1438 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1439 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1440 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1441 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1443 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1444 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1445 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1446 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1448 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1449 be the same on different OS.
1451 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1454 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1455 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1457 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1460 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1461 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1462 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1463 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1464 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1465 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1468 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1469 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1470 when Exim was called.
1472 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1473 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1475 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1476 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1477 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1478 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1480 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1481 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1482 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1483 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1486 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1487 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1488 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1490 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1491 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1492 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1494 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1497 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1498 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1499 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1500 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1501 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1502 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1503 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1504 values from the SRV records were lost.
1506 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1507 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1508 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1510 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1511 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1512 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1514 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1515 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1516 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1517 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1518 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1519 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1520 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1521 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1522 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1523 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1525 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1526 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1527 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1529 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1530 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1532 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1533 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1534 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1535 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1538 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1539 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1540 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1542 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1543 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1544 PH/23 above applies.
1546 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1547 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1548 (for which there is an explicit test).
1550 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1552 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1553 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1554 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1555 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1556 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1558 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1559 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1560 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1561 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1563 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1564 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1565 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1567 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1569 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1571 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1572 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1573 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1575 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1576 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1577 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1578 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1579 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1581 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1582 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1583 the message gets confusing).
1585 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1586 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1587 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1588 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1590 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1591 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1592 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1593 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1596 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1597 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1598 the different processes.
1600 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1602 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1604 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1605 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1607 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1608 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1610 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1611 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1612 messages matching specified criteria.
1614 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1616 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1617 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1619 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1620 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1621 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1622 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1623 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1624 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1625 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1626 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1627 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1628 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1630 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1631 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1632 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1634 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1636 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1637 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1638 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1639 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1640 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1641 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1642 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1645 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1646 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1648 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1650 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1652 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1654 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1655 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1656 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1657 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1658 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1659 size of the count of files.
1661 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1663 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1666 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1667 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1668 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1669 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1671 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1672 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1673 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1675 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1676 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1677 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1678 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1679 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1681 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1682 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1684 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1685 will now be deprecated.
1687 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1689 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1690 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1691 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1693 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1694 with very large, slow to parse queues
1696 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1698 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1700 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1701 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1702 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1705 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1706 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1707 Sieve code now uses this.
1709 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1710 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1712 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1713 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1715 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1717 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1718 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1719 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1720 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1721 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1723 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1724 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1725 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1726 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1728 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1730 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1732 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1733 is preferred over IPv4.
1735 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1736 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1737 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1738 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1739 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1740 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1741 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1743 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1744 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1745 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1747 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1749 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1750 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1751 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1752 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1753 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1754 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1755 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1756 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1757 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1758 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1759 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1761 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1762 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1763 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1769 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1771 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1772 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1774 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1775 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1776 statements are most likely to be submissions.
1778 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1780 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1783 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1786 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1787 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1788 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1791 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1792 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1794 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1795 inside the third argument.
1797 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1798 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1801 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1802 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
1804 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1805 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1807 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1809 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1810 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1813 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1815 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1816 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1817 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1818 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1819 identical. For example:
1821 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1823 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1824 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1825 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1827 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1828 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1829 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1830 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1832 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1833 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1834 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1837 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1839 o fixes some comments
1840 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1841 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1842 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1843 and documents the missing references header update
1847 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1848 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1851 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1852 Electronic Mail") by including:
1854 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1856 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1857 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1858 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1859 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1860 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1862 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1864 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1866 The auto-replied keyword:
1868 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1869 message by an automatic process,
1871 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1873 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1874 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1876 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1877 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1880 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1881 to the default Received: header definition.
1883 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1885 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1886 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1887 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1889 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1890 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1891 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1893 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1894 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1895 and treats the condition as false.
1897 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1899 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1900 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1901 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1902 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1903 not changing the active code.
1905 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1906 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1908 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1909 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1911 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1914 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1915 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1916 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1917 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1918 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1919 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1920 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1921 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1922 the text comparison.
1924 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1925 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1926 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1927 The same fix has been applied.
1933 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1934 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1937 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1938 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1940 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1942 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1943 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1944 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1945 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1946 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1948 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1949 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1950 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1951 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1954 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1962 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1963 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1965 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1967 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1969 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1970 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1971 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1973 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1974 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1975 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1977 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1978 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1981 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1982 ${stat: expansion item.
1984 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1985 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1987 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1988 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1991 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1993 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1996 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1997 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1999 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2001 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2002 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2003 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2004 the end of the subprocess.
2006 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2007 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2008 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2009 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2010 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2012 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2014 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2016 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2017 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2019 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2021 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2023 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2024 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2027 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2029 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2030 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2031 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2033 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2034 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2036 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2037 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2039 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2040 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2042 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2043 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2045 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2046 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2047 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2048 contributed by a Radius user.
2050 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2051 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2053 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2054 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2056 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2059 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2060 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2063 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2064 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2065 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2066 header lines when this was not necessary.
2068 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2070 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2071 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2072 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2075 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2078 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2079 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2080 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2081 return code was incorrect.
2083 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2085 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2087 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2089 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2091 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2092 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2093 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2094 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2095 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2098 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2100 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2101 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2102 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2103 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2104 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2105 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2106 which is clearly wrong.
2108 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2110 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2111 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2112 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2115 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2116 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2118 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2120 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2121 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2123 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2124 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2126 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2127 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2129 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2130 recipients, not senders.
2132 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2133 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2135 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2137 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2139 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2140 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2141 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2142 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2144 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2146 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2147 clock is set back in time.
2149 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2150 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2152 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2153 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2155 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2156 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2159 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2160 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2163 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2166 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2168 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2169 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2170 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2172 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2173 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2174 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2175 helo verification defer as a failure.
2177 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2178 actual error message.
2184 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2186 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2187 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2188 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2189 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2191 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2193 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2194 can still be requested.
2196 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2197 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2198 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2199 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2201 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2202 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2203 circumstances, but probably never did.
2205 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2206 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2207 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2210 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2212 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2213 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2215 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2217 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2219 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2220 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2221 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2222 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2223 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2224 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2226 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2227 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2228 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2229 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2230 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2231 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2233 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2234 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2236 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2237 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2239 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2240 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2242 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2244 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2246 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2248 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2250 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2252 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2254 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2256 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2257 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2258 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2260 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2261 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2262 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2263 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2265 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2266 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2267 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2269 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2270 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2271 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2272 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2274 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2275 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2278 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2279 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2280 should work with maildirs and everything.
2282 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2283 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2285 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2288 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2289 function for BDB 4.3.
2291 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2293 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2294 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2297 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2298 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2299 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2300 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2301 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2302 formatting function string_vformat().
2304 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2305 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2306 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2307 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2308 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2309 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2310 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2311 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2313 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2314 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2317 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2318 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2320 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2321 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2322 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2323 test. It is now used for both.
2325 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2326 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2327 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2328 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2329 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2330 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2332 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2333 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2334 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2337 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2338 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2339 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2341 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2342 experimental DomainKeys support:
2344 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2345 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2346 the control was given.
2348 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2350 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2352 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2354 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2355 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2356 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2359 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2360 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2361 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2362 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2363 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2364 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2367 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2368 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2369 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2370 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2371 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2372 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2374 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2375 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2376 do -d+all out of habit.
2378 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2379 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2382 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2383 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2384 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2385 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2386 record types that Exim uses.
2388 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2389 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2390 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2391 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2392 non-existent file that was broken.
2394 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2395 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2397 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2398 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2399 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2401 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2403 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2404 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2405 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2406 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2407 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2410 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2411 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2412 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2413 at a slight CPU cost.
2415 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2416 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2418 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2421 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2423 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2424 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2430 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2431 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2433 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2435 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2437 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2438 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2440 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2441 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2442 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2443 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2444 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2445 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2448 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2449 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2450 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2451 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2454 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2455 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2456 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2457 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2458 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2459 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2460 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2463 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2464 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2466 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2467 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2468 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2469 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2470 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2471 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2473 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2474 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2475 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2476 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2478 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2481 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2482 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2484 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2485 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2486 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2487 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2490 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2492 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2493 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2495 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2496 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2497 to what was transported.)
2499 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2501 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2502 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2503 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2504 spamd_address settings.
2506 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2507 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2508 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2509 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2510 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2512 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2514 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2515 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2516 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2517 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2518 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2520 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2521 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2523 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2524 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2525 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2526 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2527 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2528 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2529 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2532 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2533 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2534 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2535 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2536 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2537 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2538 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2541 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2543 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2544 driver and ACL definitions.
2546 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2547 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2549 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2550 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2551 understands it better than I do:
2553 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2554 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2556 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2557 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2558 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2559 => three warnings about OTP not working
2560 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2562 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2563 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2564 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2565 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2567 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2568 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2570 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2571 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2572 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2574 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2575 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2578 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2579 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2582 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2583 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2584 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2586 warn !verify = sender
2587 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2589 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2590 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2592 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2594 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2595 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2597 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2598 nomenclature these days.)
2600 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2601 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2603 PH/30 In these circumstances:
2604 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2605 . First host does not offer TLS;
2606 . First host accepts first address;
2607 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2608 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2609 . Second host accepts second address.
2610 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2611 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2614 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2615 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2616 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2617 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2618 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2620 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2621 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2623 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2624 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2626 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2627 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2628 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2630 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2631 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2634 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2636 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2637 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2638 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2639 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2640 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2641 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2642 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2644 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2645 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2646 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2647 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2648 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2650 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2651 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2654 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2655 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2656 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2657 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2658 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2659 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2661 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2663 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2664 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2665 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2666 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2667 printable escape sequences.
2669 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2670 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2673 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2674 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2677 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2678 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2679 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2680 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2681 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2683 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2684 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2685 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2687 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2689 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2690 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2693 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2694 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2695 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2696 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2697 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2698 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2699 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2700 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2701 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2704 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2705 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2706 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2707 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2711 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2712 ----------------------------------------
2714 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2715 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2716 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2717 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2718 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2719 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2722 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
2723 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2724 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2725 historical information.
2731 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2733 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
2734 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
2736 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2737 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2740 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2741 filter fails to execute.
2743 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2744 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2745 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2746 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2747 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2749 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2751 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2752 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2753 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2754 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2756 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2757 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2758 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2759 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2760 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2762 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2764 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2766 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2767 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2768 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2769 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2771 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2772 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2773 sender verification.
2775 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2776 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2778 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2780 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2783 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2784 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2786 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2787 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2789 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2790 information about exactly what failed.
2792 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2794 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2795 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2796 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2798 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2799 It is now set to "smtps".
2801 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2802 ignore_target_hosts.
2804 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2805 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2806 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2807 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2810 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2811 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2812 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2814 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2815 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2816 wake it up if nothing else does.
2818 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2819 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2820 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2823 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2824 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2826 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2828 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2829 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2830 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2831 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2832 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2833 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2834 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2835 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2837 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2838 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2839 than one IP address.
2841 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2842 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2843 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2844 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2846 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2847 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2848 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2849 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2850 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2853 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2854 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2855 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2856 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2858 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2859 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2862 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2863 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2864 $sender_host_address.
2866 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2867 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2868 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2869 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2870 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2873 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2875 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2876 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2878 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2879 just the host names, not the priorities.
2881 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
2882 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2883 controlled by a keyword.
2885 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
2886 multiple records are returned.
2888 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2889 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2892 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2894 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2895 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2897 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2898 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2899 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2901 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2903 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2905 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2907 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2908 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2909 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2910 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2911 because the tests only now provoked it.
2913 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2914 (this can affect the format of dates).
2916 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2917 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2918 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2919 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2921 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2923 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2924 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2925 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2926 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2928 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2929 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2930 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2932 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2935 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2936 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2937 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2938 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2939 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2940 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2943 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2944 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2945 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2948 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2949 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2950 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2952 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2953 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2954 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2955 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2956 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2957 so I produce this patch..."
2959 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2960 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2963 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2964 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2965 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2966 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2969 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2971 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2972 long debug lines gets shown.
2974 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2975 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2977 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2979 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2980 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2981 of $primary_hostname.
2983 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2984 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2985 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2986 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2987 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2988 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2989 by change 4.50/55 above.
2991 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2992 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2993 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2994 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2995 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2996 running as the user.
2999 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3000 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3001 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3004 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3005 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3007 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3008 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3009 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3010 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3011 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3013 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3014 This has been fixed.
3016 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3017 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3018 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3019 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3022 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3024 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3025 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3026 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3027 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3029 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3030 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3032 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3033 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3034 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3036 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3037 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3038 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3041 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3042 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3043 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3045 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3046 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3047 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3048 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3050 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3051 during host lookups.
3053 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3054 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3056 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3058 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3059 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3060 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3061 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3062 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3065 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3066 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3068 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3069 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3070 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3072 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3074 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3075 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3076 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3077 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3078 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3079 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3082 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3083 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3084 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3085 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3086 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3088 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3091 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3093 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3094 "vacation" handling.
3096 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3097 OS variants using glibc.
3099 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3102 ----------------------------------------------------
3103 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3104 ----------------------------------------------------
3110 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3111 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3114 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3115 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3118 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3119 filter fails to execute.
3121 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3122 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3123 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3124 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3125 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3127 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3128 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3129 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3130 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3132 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3133 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3134 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3135 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3136 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3138 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3140 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3141 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3142 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3143 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3145 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3146 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3147 sender verification.
3149 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3150 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3152 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3153 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3155 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3156 ignore_target_hosts.
3158 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3159 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3160 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3161 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3164 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3165 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3166 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3168 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3169 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3170 wake it up if nothing else does.
3172 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3173 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3174 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3177 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3178 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3180 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3182 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3183 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3186 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3187 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3190 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3191 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3192 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3193 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3194 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3197 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3198 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3201 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3202 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3203 $sender_host_address.
3205 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3207 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3208 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3209 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3211 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3214 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3215 (this can affect the format of dates).
3217 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3218 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3219 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3220 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3222 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3223 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3224 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3226 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3227 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3228 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3229 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3231 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3232 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3233 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3235 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3238 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3239 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3240 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3241 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3242 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3243 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3246 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3247 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3248 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3249 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3252 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3253 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3254 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3255 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3256 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3257 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3258 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3260 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3261 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3262 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3263 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3264 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3265 running as the user.
3268 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3269 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3270 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3273 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3274 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3275 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3276 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3277 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3279 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3280 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3281 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3282 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3285 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3286 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3287 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3288 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3289 because the tests only now provoked it.
3295 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3296 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3297 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3298 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3299 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3300 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3301 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3303 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3304 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3307 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3309 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3311 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3312 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3315 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3316 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3317 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3318 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3319 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3321 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3322 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3324 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3326 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3328 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3331 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3332 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3334 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3335 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3336 affecting debugging statements).
3338 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3340 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3341 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3342 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3343 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3344 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3345 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3346 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3347 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3348 after the received time, and all would be well.
3350 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3351 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3352 condition in an expansion string.
3354 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3356 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3357 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3358 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3359 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3360 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3361 job under whatever limits there are.
3363 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3365 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3368 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3369 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3370 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3371 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3374 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3375 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3376 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3377 binary data in such strings.
3379 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3381 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3382 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3383 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3384 failure, which is pointless.
3386 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3388 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3390 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3391 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3392 Sender: header lines.
3394 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3395 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3396 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3398 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3399 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3400 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3401 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3402 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3405 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3406 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3407 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3408 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3409 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3411 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3412 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3413 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3416 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3417 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3419 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3420 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3422 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3424 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3426 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3428 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3431 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3433 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3435 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3436 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3437 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3438 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3440 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3441 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3447 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3448 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3449 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3451 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3452 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3453 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3454 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3455 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3456 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3458 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3459 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3460 verification failure".
3462 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3463 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3464 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3465 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3467 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3468 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3469 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3470 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3471 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3472 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3473 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3474 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3475 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3476 treated as a timeout.
3478 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3479 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3480 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3481 not set for Exim filters).
3483 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3484 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3485 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3487 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3489 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3490 try to make them clearer.
3492 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3493 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3495 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3497 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3499 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3500 only the Cygwin environment.
3502 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3503 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3504 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3505 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3506 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3508 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3509 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3510 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3511 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3512 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3513 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3514 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3516 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3517 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3519 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3521 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3522 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3523 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3525 To: susanne@some.where
3527 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3528 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3529 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3530 of addresses in From: header lines).
3532 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3533 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3534 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3536 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3537 treated as non-personal.
3539 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3540 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3542 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3544 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3546 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3547 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3548 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3550 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3551 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3553 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3554 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3555 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3556 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3557 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3558 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3560 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3561 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3562 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3563 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3564 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3565 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3566 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3567 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3569 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3571 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3572 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3574 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3575 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3576 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3578 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3579 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3581 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3582 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3583 rather than long int.
3585 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3587 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3593 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3594 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3595 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3596 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3597 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3598 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3604 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3605 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3607 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3608 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3609 socklen_t is defined.
3611 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3614 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3617 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3618 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3619 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3620 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3621 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3623 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3624 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3625 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3626 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3628 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3629 of flapping under certain conditions.
3631 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3632 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3633 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3635 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3637 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3639 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3640 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3641 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3642 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3644 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3645 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3646 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3647 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3648 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3649 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3650 preserved with the message after it was received.
3652 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3653 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3654 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3655 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3656 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3657 test suite worked just fine.
3659 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3660 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3661 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3663 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3664 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3667 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3668 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3669 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3670 does not fully solve it.
3672 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3673 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3674 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3675 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3676 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3678 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3679 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3680 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3682 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3683 string, for example:
3685 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3687 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3688 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3689 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3690 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3691 the routers could not see them.
3693 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3694 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3696 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3697 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3700 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3701 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3702 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3703 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3704 that needed quoting.
3706 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3707 was not being matched caselessly.
3709 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3712 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3713 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3714 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3715 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3716 when use_sender is false.
3718 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3720 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3722 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3724 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3725 the configuration file.
3727 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3728 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3730 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3732 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3733 bytes in the message body.
3735 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3736 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3739 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3741 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3743 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3744 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3745 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3746 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3753 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3754 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3756 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3757 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3758 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3759 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3760 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3762 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3763 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3765 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3766 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3767 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3769 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3770 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3771 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3773 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3776 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3777 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3778 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3779 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3780 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3781 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3782 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3788 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3789 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3790 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3791 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3792 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3793 default (and expected) setting.
3795 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3796 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3797 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3798 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3800 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3801 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3803 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3806 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3807 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3808 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3809 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3810 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3811 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3813 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3814 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3815 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3817 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3818 part (NOT match_host).
3820 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3822 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3823 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3824 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3825 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3826 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3827 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3828 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3829 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3830 the same named file.
3832 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3833 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3836 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3837 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3838 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3839 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3842 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3843 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3844 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3846 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3848 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3850 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3852 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3853 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3855 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3856 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3857 before starting the TLS session.
3859 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3861 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3862 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3864 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3865 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3866 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3867 colon in the middle).
3873 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3874 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3875 multiple configurations are in use.
3877 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3878 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3879 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3880 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3881 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3882 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3884 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3885 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3887 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3888 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3889 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3891 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3892 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3895 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3896 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3898 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3900 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3901 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3903 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3911 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3912 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3913 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3914 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3915 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3917 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3920 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3921 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3922 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3923 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3924 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3925 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3927 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3928 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3929 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3930 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3931 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3932 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3933 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3936 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3937 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3938 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3939 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3940 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3942 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3944 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3945 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3946 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3948 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3950 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3951 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3952 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3955 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3956 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3958 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3959 Three changes have been made:
3961 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3962 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3963 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3964 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3965 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3967 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3970 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3971 the modified behaviour.
3977 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3980 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3981 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3983 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3984 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3985 try to track down a specific problem.
3987 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3988 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3989 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3991 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3994 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3995 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3996 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3997 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3998 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3999 some earlier ones do not.
4001 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4003 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4004 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4005 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4006 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4007 address literals are enabled, of course).
4009 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4011 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4012 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4013 by a command such as
4017 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4019 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4021 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4022 remained set. It is now erased.
4024 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4025 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4027 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4028 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4029 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4030 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4031 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4032 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4033 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4034 appropriate error code.
4036 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4037 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4038 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4039 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4040 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4041 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4043 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4044 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4045 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4047 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4048 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4049 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4050 terminate the header.
4052 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4053 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4054 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4056 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4057 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4058 (4.30/29). In particular:
4060 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4063 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4064 to write a maildirsize file.
4066 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4067 the transport, the new value overrides.
4069 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4072 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4073 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4074 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4077 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4078 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4079 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4082 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4083 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4084 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4086 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4087 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4090 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4091 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4092 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4094 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4096 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4098 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4100 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4101 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4104 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4105 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4106 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4107 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4108 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4109 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4110 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4113 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4114 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4115 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4116 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4117 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4120 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4121 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4122 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4123 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4124 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4125 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4126 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4127 cached value only when the same options are set.
4129 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4131 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4132 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4133 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4134 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4135 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4137 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4138 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4139 it is clearly obsolete.
4141 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4144 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4145 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4146 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4149 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4150 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4151 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4152 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4153 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4155 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4156 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4157 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4158 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4160 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4162 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4164 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4165 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4168 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4169 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4170 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4171 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4172 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4173 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4176 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4177 with the -f command-line option.
4179 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4180 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4181 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4182 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4183 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4184 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4186 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4187 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4190 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4191 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4192 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4193 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4194 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4195 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4196 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4197 buffer is too small.
4199 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4200 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4202 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4203 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4204 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4205 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4206 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4207 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4208 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4209 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4210 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4212 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4213 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4214 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4216 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4217 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4220 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4221 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4222 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4223 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4224 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4226 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4227 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4228 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4229 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4232 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4234 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4236 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4237 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4239 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4240 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4241 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4243 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4244 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4245 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4246 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4247 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4249 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4250 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4251 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4252 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4253 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4254 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4255 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4257 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4258 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4259 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4260 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4261 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4262 the test of how many are available.
4264 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4265 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4266 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4267 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4268 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4269 new message is started.
4271 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4272 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4274 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4275 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4277 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4278 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4279 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4282 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4283 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4284 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4285 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4286 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4287 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4288 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4290 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4291 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4292 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4293 interpreted as octal.
4295 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4298 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4299 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4300 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4301 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4302 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4303 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4305 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4306 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4307 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4308 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4310 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4311 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4312 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4313 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4315 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4316 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4319 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4320 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4322 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4324 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4325 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4326 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4327 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4329 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4330 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4331 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4332 supplied", which is not helpful.
4334 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4335 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4336 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4338 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4339 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4340 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4341 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4342 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4343 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4344 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4345 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4347 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4348 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4349 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4350 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4351 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4353 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4354 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4355 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4356 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4357 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4358 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4360 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4361 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4362 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4364 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4366 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4367 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4368 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4371 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4373 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4374 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4375 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4376 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4377 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4378 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4379 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4380 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4382 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4383 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4384 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4385 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4386 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4388 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4391 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4392 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4393 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4394 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4395 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4396 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4397 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4398 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4399 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4405 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4406 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4407 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4409 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4412 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4413 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4414 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4416 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4417 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4418 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4419 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4420 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4421 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4423 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4424 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4425 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4426 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4427 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4428 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4429 the Exim test suite.
4431 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4432 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4433 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4434 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4436 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4437 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4438 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4439 specify it in this variable.
4441 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4442 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4443 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4444 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4446 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4447 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4448 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4449 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4451 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4452 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4453 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4454 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4455 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4457 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4459 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4462 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4463 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4464 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4465 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4466 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4468 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4469 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4471 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4472 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4473 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4474 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4475 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4477 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4478 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4480 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4481 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4482 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4484 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4485 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4487 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4488 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4490 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4491 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4492 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4494 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4495 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4497 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4498 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4499 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4500 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4502 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4504 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4505 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4506 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4507 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4509 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4511 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4512 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4514 25. Added .include_if_exists.
4516 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4517 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4518 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4519 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4520 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4521 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4523 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4525 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4526 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4529 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4531 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4532 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4534 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4535 550 Sender verify failed
4537 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4538 the final line of the response.
4540 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4541 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4542 all other user lookups.
4544 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4547 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4548 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4549 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4550 result into an int without checking.
4552 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4553 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4554 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4556 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4557 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4558 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4559 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4561 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4564 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4565 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4567 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4568 to the empty sender.
4570 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4571 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4572 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4573 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4574 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4575 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4576 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4579 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4580 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4581 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4582 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4585 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4586 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4588 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4591 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4592 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4594 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4596 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4597 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4600 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4601 as soon as it is encountered.
4603 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4605 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4608 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4609 recognizes a tab character.
4611 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4612 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4613 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4614 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4616 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4618 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4621 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4623 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4625 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4626 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4629 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4630 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4631 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4632 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4633 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4635 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4636 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4638 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4639 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4640 list (.included file names were always shown).
4642 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4643 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4644 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4647 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4648 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4650 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4652 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4654 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4656 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4657 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4658 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4659 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4660 failures to open the logs.
4662 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4663 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4664 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4665 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4666 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4667 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4668 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4674 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4675 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4676 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4679 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4680 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4681 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4683 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4684 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4685 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4687 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4688 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4689 causing some misleading effects.
4691 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4692 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4693 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4695 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4696 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4697 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4698 queue-runner function directly.
4704 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4707 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4708 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4709 was always written to the default place.
4711 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4712 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4713 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4715 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4717 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4719 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4720 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4721 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4723 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4724 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4727 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4728 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4729 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4731 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4732 command line option is disabled.
4734 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4735 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4737 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4739 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4741 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4742 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4744 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4746 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4747 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4748 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4749 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4750 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4751 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4753 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4754 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4757 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4758 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4760 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4761 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4763 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4764 received was valid base64.
4766 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4767 name of the variable that was being set.
4769 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4771 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4772 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4773 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4774 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4775 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4776 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4778 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4780 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4781 nor realm was specified.
4783 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4784 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4785 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4786 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4788 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4789 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4790 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4792 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4793 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4794 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4796 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4797 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4798 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4799 some systems use these upper case variants.
4801 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4802 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4803 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4804 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4806 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4808 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4809 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4811 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4812 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4815 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4817 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4818 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4819 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4820 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4822 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4825 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4826 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4827 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4829 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4830 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4832 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4833 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4834 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4835 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4837 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4838 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4839 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4841 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4843 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4844 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4845 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4846 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4849 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4850 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4851 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4853 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4855 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4856 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4858 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4859 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4861 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4862 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4863 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4864 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4865 when emails are that large.
4872 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4873 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4875 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4876 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4877 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4879 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4880 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4881 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4883 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4884 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4885 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4886 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4887 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4889 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4890 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4891 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4892 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4893 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4896 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4897 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4898 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4899 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4900 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4901 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4902 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4903 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4904 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4905 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4906 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4907 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4908 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4909 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4911 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4912 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4915 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4916 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4917 error should be diagnosed.
4919 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4920 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4921 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4922 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4923 appeared instead of "NULL".
4925 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4926 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4927 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4928 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4929 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4930 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4933 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4934 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4935 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4941 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4942 or receiver verification errors.
4944 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4947 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4948 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4949 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4950 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4952 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4953 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4954 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4955 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4956 shouldn't happen again.
4958 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4959 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4960 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4962 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4963 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4965 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4967 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4968 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4970 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4971 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4974 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4975 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4976 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4978 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4979 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4980 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4981 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4983 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4984 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4985 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4986 to define what should happen).
4988 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4989 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4990 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4992 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4994 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4996 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4997 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4999 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5000 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5001 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5002 structure in all cases.
5004 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5005 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5006 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5007 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5009 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5010 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5013 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5014 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5016 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5017 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5019 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5020 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5021 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5023 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5024 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5025 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5027 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5028 the book and for uniformity.
5030 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5032 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5033 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5034 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5035 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5036 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5037 non-existent command as the problem.
5039 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5040 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5041 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5043 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5045 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5046 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5047 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5049 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5050 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5051 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5052 timestamps using strftime().
5054 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5055 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5057 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5058 transport-time rewrites.
5060 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5061 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5062 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5063 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5065 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5066 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5068 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5069 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5070 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5071 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5074 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5075 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5076 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5077 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5078 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5079 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5080 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5082 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5083 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5084 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5085 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5086 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5088 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5089 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5090 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5091 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5092 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5093 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5094 remaining text gets split now.
5096 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5097 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5098 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5099 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5101 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5102 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5103 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5104 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5107 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5108 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5109 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5110 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5111 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5112 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5113 passed through if needed.
5115 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5116 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5117 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5118 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5119 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5120 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5122 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5123 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5124 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5125 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5126 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5128 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5129 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5130 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5131 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5132 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5134 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5135 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5138 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5139 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5140 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5141 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5142 mayhem of various kinds.
5144 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5145 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5146 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5147 the right test for positive values.
5149 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5150 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5151 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5152 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5153 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5154 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5155 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5156 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5157 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5158 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5161 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5164 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5165 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5168 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5169 the existing equality matching.
5171 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5172 dealing with inode numbers.
5174 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5175 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5176 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5178 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5179 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5180 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5181 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5184 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5185 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5186 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5187 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5188 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5189 relay addresses has also been removed.
5191 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5193 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5194 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5195 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5197 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5198 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5199 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5200 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5201 processing applies to CR:
5203 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5204 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5206 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5207 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5208 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5209 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5211 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5212 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5213 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5215 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5216 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5217 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5218 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5219 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5220 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5223 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5226 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5227 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5228 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5229 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5232 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5234 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5236 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5238 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5239 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5240 not considered personal.
5242 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5244 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5246 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5248 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5249 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5250 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5251 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5252 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5253 header lines, and spool format errors.
5255 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5256 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5257 for more flexibility.
5259 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5260 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5261 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5263 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5266 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5267 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5268 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5269 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5270 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5271 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5272 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5273 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5274 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5276 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5277 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5278 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5279 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5280 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5281 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5282 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5284 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5285 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5286 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5288 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5289 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5290 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5291 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5292 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5293 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5294 instead of killing the process with assert().
5296 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5297 than Unicode encoding.
5299 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5300 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5301 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5302 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5304 77. Added process_log_path.
5306 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5307 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5309 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5310 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5312 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5313 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5314 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5316 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5317 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5318 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5319 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5320 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5323 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5324 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5327 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5328 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5329 they will be used during message reception.
5335 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.