1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.82 2005/02/17 09:49:08 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
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10 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
11 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
12 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
13 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
14 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
15 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
18 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
19 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
20 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
21 historical information.
27 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
29 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
30 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
32 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
33 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
36 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
37 filter fails to execute.
39 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
40 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
41 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
42 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
43 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
45 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
47 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
48 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
49 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
50 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
52 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
53 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
54 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
55 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
56 control that does not make sense is encountered.
58 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
60 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
62 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
63 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
64 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
65 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
67 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
68 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
71 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
72 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
74 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
76 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
79 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
80 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
82 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
83 the spool by the -Mrm option.
85 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
86 information about exactly what failed.
88 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
90 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
91 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
92 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
94 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
95 It is now set to "smtps".
97 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
100 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
101 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
102 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
103 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
106 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
107 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
108 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
110 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
111 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
112 wake it up if nothing else does.
114 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
115 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
116 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
119 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
120 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
122 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
124 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
125 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
126 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
127 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
128 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
129 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
130 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
131 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
133 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
134 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
137 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
138 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
139 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
140 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
142 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
143 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
144 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
145 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
146 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
149 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
150 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
151 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
152 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
154 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
155 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
158 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
159 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
160 $sender_host_address.
162 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
163 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
164 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
165 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
166 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
169 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
171 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
172 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
174 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
175 just the host names, not the priorities.
177 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
178 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
179 controlled by a keyword.
181 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
182 multiple records are returned.
184 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
185 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
188 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
190 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
191 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
193 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
194 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
195 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
197 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
199 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
201 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
203 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
204 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
205 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
206 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
207 because the tests only now provoked it.
209 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
210 (this can affect the format of dates).
212 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
213 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
214 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
215 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
217 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
219 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
220 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
221 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
222 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
224 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
225 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
226 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
228 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
231 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
232 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
233 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
234 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
235 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
236 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
239 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
240 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
241 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
244 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
245 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
246 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
248 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
249 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
250 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
251 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
252 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
253 so I produce this patch..."
255 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
256 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
259 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
260 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
261 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
262 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
265 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
267 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
268 long debug lines gets shown.
270 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
271 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
273 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
275 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
276 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
277 of $primary_hostname.
279 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
280 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
281 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
282 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
283 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
284 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
285 by change 4.50/55 above.
287 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
288 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
289 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
290 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
291 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
295 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
296 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
297 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
300 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
301 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
303 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
304 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
305 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
306 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
307 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
309 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
312 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
313 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
314 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
315 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
318 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
320 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
321 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
322 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
323 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
325 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
326 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
328 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
329 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
330 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
332 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
333 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
334 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
337 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
338 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
339 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
341 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
342 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
343 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
344 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
346 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
349 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
350 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
352 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
354 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
355 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
356 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
357 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
358 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
361 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
362 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
364 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
365 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
366 for the non-SMTP ACL.
368 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
370 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
371 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
372 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
373 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
374 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
375 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
378 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
379 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
380 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
381 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
382 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
384 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
387 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
389 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
393 ----------------------------------------------------
394 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
395 ----------------------------------------------------
401 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
402 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
405 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
406 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
409 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
410 filter fails to execute.
412 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
413 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
414 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
415 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
416 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
418 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
419 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
420 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
421 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
423 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
424 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
425 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
426 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
427 control that does not make sense is encountered.
429 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
431 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
432 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
433 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
434 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
436 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
437 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
440 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
441 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
443 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
444 the spool by the -Mrm option.
446 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
449 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
450 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
451 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
452 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
455 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
456 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
457 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
459 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
460 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
461 wake it up if nothing else does.
463 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
464 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
465 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
468 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
469 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
471 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
473 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
474 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
477 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
478 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
481 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
482 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
483 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
484 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
485 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
488 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
489 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
492 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
493 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
494 $sender_host_address.
496 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
498 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
499 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
500 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
502 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
505 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
506 (this can affect the format of dates).
508 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
509 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
510 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
511 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
513 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
514 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
515 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
517 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
518 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
519 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
520 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
522 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
523 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
524 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
526 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
529 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
530 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
531 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
532 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
533 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
534 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
537 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
538 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
539 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
540 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
543 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
544 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
545 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
546 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
547 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
548 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
549 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
551 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
552 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
553 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
554 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
555 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
559 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
560 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
561 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
564 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
565 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
566 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
567 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
568 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
570 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
571 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
572 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
573 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
576 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
577 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
578 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
579 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
580 because the tests only now provoked it.
586 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
587 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
588 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
589 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
590 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
591 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
592 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
594 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
595 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
598 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
600 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
602 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
603 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
606 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
607 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
608 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
609 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
610 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
612 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
613 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
615 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
617 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
619 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
622 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
623 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
625 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
626 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
627 affecting debugging statements).
629 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
631 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
632 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
633 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
634 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
635 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
636 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
637 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
638 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
639 after the received time, and all would be well.
641 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
642 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
643 condition in an expansion string.
645 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
647 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
648 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
649 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
650 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
651 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
652 job under whatever limits there are.
654 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
656 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
659 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
660 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
661 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
662 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
665 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
666 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
667 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
668 binary data in such strings.
670 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
672 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
673 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
674 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
675 failure, which is pointless.
677 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
679 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
681 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
682 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
683 Sender: header lines.
685 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
686 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
687 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
689 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
690 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
691 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
692 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
693 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
696 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
697 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
698 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
699 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
700 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
702 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
703 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
704 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
707 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
708 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
710 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
711 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
713 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
715 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
717 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
719 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
722 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
724 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
726 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
727 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
728 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
729 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
731 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
732 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
738 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
739 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
740 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
742 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
743 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
744 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
745 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
746 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
747 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
749 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
750 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
751 verification failure".
753 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
754 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
755 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
756 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
758 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
759 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
760 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
761 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
762 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
763 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
764 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
765 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
766 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
767 treated as a timeout.
769 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
770 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
771 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
772 not set for Exim filters).
774 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
775 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
776 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
778 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
780 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
781 try to make them clearer.
783 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
784 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
786 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
788 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
790 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
791 only the Cygwin environment.
793 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
794 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
795 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
796 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
797 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
799 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
800 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
801 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
802 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
803 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
804 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
805 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
807 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
808 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
810 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
812 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
813 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
814 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
816 To: susanne@some.where
818 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
819 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
820 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
821 of addresses in From: header lines).
823 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
824 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
825 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
827 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
828 treated as non-personal.
830 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
831 because it now seems ill-conceived.
833 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
835 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
837 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
838 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
839 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
841 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
842 ACL and the local_scan() function.
844 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
845 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
846 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
847 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
848 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
849 (I found it when inspecting the code).
851 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
852 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
853 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
854 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
855 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
856 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
857 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
858 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
860 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
862 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
863 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
865 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
866 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
867 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
869 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
870 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
872 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
873 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
874 rather than long int.
876 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
878 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
884 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
885 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
886 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
887 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
888 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
889 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
895 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
896 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
898 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
899 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
900 socklen_t is defined.
902 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
905 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
908 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
909 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
910 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
911 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
912 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
914 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
915 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
916 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
917 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
919 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
920 of flapping under certain conditions.
922 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
923 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
924 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
926 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
928 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
930 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
931 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
932 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
933 the duration of the SMTP connection.
935 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
936 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
937 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
938 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
939 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
940 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
941 preserved with the message after it was received.
943 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
944 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
945 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
946 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
947 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
948 test suite worked just fine.
950 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
951 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
952 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
954 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
955 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
958 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
959 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
960 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
961 does not fully solve it.
963 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
964 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
965 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
966 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
967 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
969 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
970 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
971 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
973 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
976 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
978 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
979 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
980 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
981 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
982 the routers could not see them.
984 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
985 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
987 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
988 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
991 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
992 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
993 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
994 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
997 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
998 was not being matched caselessly.
1000 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1003 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1004 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1005 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1006 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1007 when use_sender is false.
1009 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1011 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1013 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1015 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1016 the configuration file.
1018 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1019 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1021 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1023 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1024 bytes in the message body.
1026 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1027 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1030 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1032 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1034 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1035 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1036 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1037 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1044 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1045 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1047 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1048 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1049 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1050 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1051 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1053 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1054 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1056 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1057 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1058 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1060 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1061 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1062 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1064 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1067 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1068 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1069 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1070 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1071 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1072 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1073 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1079 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1080 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1081 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1082 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1083 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1084 default (and expected) setting.
1086 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1087 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1088 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1089 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1091 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1092 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1094 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1097 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1098 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1099 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1100 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1101 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1102 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1104 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1105 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1106 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1108 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1109 part (NOT match_host).
1111 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1113 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1114 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1115 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1116 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1117 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1118 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1119 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1120 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1121 the same named file.
1123 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1124 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1127 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1128 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1129 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1130 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1133 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1134 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1135 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1137 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1139 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1141 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1143 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1144 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1146 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1147 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1148 before starting the TLS session.
1150 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1152 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1153 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1155 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1156 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1157 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1158 colon in the middle).
1164 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1165 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1166 multiple configurations are in use.
1168 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1169 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1170 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1171 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1172 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1173 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1175 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1176 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1178 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1179 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1180 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1182 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1183 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1186 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1187 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1189 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1191 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1192 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1194 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1202 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1203 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1204 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1205 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1206 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1208 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1211 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1212 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1213 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1214 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1215 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1216 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1218 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1219 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1220 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1221 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1222 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1223 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1224 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1227 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1228 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1229 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1230 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1231 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1233 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1235 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1236 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1237 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1239 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1241 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1242 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1243 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1246 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1247 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1249 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1250 Three changes have been made:
1252 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1253 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1254 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1255 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1256 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1258 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1261 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1262 the modified behaviour.
1268 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1271 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1272 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1274 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1275 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1276 try to track down a specific problem.
1278 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1279 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1280 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1282 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1285 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1286 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1287 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1288 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1289 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1290 some earlier ones do not.
1292 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1294 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1295 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1296 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1297 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1298 address literals are enabled, of course).
1300 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
1302 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
1303 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
1304 by a command such as
1308 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
1310 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
1312 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
1313 remained set. It is now erased.
1315 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
1316 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
1318 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
1319 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
1320 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
1321 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
1322 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
1323 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
1324 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
1325 appropriate error code.
1327 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
1328 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
1329 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
1330 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
1331 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
1332 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
1334 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
1335 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
1336 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
1338 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
1339 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
1340 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
1341 terminate the header.
1343 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
1344 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
1345 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
1347 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
1348 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
1349 (4.30/29). In particular:
1351 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
1354 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
1355 to write a maildirsize file.
1357 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
1358 the transport, the new value overrides.
1360 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
1363 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
1364 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
1365 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
1368 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
1369 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
1370 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
1373 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
1374 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
1375 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
1377 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
1378 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
1381 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
1382 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
1383 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
1385 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
1387 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
1389 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
1391 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
1392 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
1395 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
1396 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
1397 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
1398 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
1399 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
1400 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
1401 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
1404 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
1405 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
1406 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
1407 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
1408 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
1411 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
1412 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
1413 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
1414 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
1415 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
1416 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
1417 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
1418 cached value only when the same options are set.
1420 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
1422 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
1423 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
1424 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
1425 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
1426 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
1428 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
1429 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
1430 it is clearly obsolete.
1432 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
1435 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
1436 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
1437 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
1440 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
1441 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
1442 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
1443 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
1444 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
1446 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
1447 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
1448 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
1449 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
1451 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
1453 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
1455 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
1456 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
1459 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
1460 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
1461 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
1462 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
1463 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
1464 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
1467 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
1468 with the -f command-line option.
1470 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
1471 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
1472 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
1473 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
1474 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
1475 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1477 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
1478 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
1481 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
1482 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
1483 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
1484 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
1485 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
1486 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
1487 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
1488 buffer is too small.
1490 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
1491 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
1493 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
1494 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
1495 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
1496 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
1497 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
1498 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
1499 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
1500 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
1501 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
1503 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
1504 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
1505 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
1507 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
1508 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
1511 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
1512 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
1513 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
1514 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
1515 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
1517 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
1518 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
1519 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
1520 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
1523 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
1525 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
1527 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
1528 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
1530 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
1531 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
1532 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
1534 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
1535 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
1536 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
1537 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
1538 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
1540 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
1541 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
1542 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
1543 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
1544 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
1545 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
1546 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
1548 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
1549 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
1550 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
1551 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
1552 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
1553 the test of how many are available.
1555 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
1556 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
1557 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
1558 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
1559 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
1560 new message is started.
1562 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
1563 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
1565 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
1566 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
1568 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
1569 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
1570 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
1573 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
1574 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
1575 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
1576 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
1577 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
1578 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
1579 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
1581 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
1582 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
1583 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
1584 interpreted as octal.
1586 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
1589 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
1590 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
1591 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
1592 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
1593 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
1594 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
1596 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
1597 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
1598 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
1599 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
1601 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
1602 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
1603 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
1604 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
1606 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
1607 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
1610 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
1611 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
1613 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1615 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
1616 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
1617 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
1618 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
1620 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
1621 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
1622 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
1623 supplied", which is not helpful.
1625 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
1626 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
1627 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
1629 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
1630 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
1631 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
1632 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
1633 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
1634 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
1635 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
1636 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
1638 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
1639 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
1640 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
1641 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
1642 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
1644 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
1645 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
1646 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
1647 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
1648 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
1649 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
1651 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
1652 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
1653 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
1655 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
1657 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
1658 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
1659 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
1662 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
1664 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
1665 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
1666 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
1667 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
1668 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
1669 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
1670 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
1671 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
1673 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
1674 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
1675 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
1676 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
1677 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
1679 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
1682 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
1683 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
1684 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
1685 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
1686 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
1687 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
1688 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
1689 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
1690 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
1696 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
1697 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
1698 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
1700 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
1703 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
1704 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
1705 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
1707 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
1708 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
1709 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
1710 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
1711 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
1712 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
1714 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
1715 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
1716 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
1717 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
1718 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
1719 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
1720 the Exim test suite.
1722 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
1723 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
1724 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
1725 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
1727 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
1728 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
1729 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
1730 specify it in this variable.
1732 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
1733 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
1734 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
1735 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
1737 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
1738 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
1739 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
1740 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
1742 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
1743 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
1744 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
1745 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
1746 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
1748 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
1750 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
1753 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
1754 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
1755 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
1756 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
1757 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
1759 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
1760 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
1762 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
1763 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
1764 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
1765 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
1766 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
1768 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
1769 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
1771 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
1772 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1773 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
1775 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
1776 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
1778 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
1779 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
1781 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
1782 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
1783 to get rid of the compiler warning.
1785 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
1786 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
1788 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
1789 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
1790 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
1791 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
1793 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
1795 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
1796 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
1797 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
1798 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
1800 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
1802 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
1803 line; previously there was no indication of these.
1805 25. Added .include_if_exists.
1807 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
1808 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
1809 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
1810 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
1811 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
1812 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
1814 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
1816 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
1817 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
1820 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
1822 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
1823 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
1825 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
1826 550 Sender verify failed
1828 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
1829 the final line of the response.
1831 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
1832 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
1833 all other user lookups.
1835 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
1838 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
1839 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
1840 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
1841 result into an int without checking.
1843 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
1844 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
1845 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
1847 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
1848 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
1849 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
1850 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
1852 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
1855 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
1856 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
1858 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
1859 to the empty sender.
1861 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
1862 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
1863 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
1864 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
1865 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
1866 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
1867 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
1870 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
1871 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
1872 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
1873 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
1876 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
1877 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
1879 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
1882 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
1883 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
1885 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
1887 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
1888 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
1891 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
1892 as soon as it is encountered.
1894 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
1896 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
1899 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
1900 recognizes a tab character.
1902 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
1903 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
1904 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
1905 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
1907 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
1909 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
1912 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
1914 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
1916 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
1917 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
1920 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
1921 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
1922 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
1923 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
1924 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
1926 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
1927 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
1929 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
1930 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
1931 list (.included file names were always shown).
1933 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
1934 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
1935 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
1938 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
1939 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
1941 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
1943 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
1945 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
1947 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
1948 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
1949 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
1950 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
1951 failures to open the logs.
1953 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
1954 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
1955 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
1956 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
1957 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
1958 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
1959 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
1965 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
1966 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
1967 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
1970 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
1971 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
1972 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
1974 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
1975 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
1976 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
1978 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
1979 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
1980 causing some misleading effects.
1982 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
1983 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
1984 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
1986 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
1987 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
1988 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
1989 queue-runner function directly.
1995 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
1998 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
1999 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2000 was always written to the default place.
2002 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2003 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2004 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2006 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2008 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2010 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2011 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2012 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2014 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2015 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2018 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2019 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2020 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2022 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2023 command line option is disabled.
2025 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2026 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2028 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2030 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2032 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2033 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2035 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2037 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2038 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2039 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2040 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2041 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2042 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2044 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2045 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2048 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2049 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2051 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2052 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2054 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2055 received was valid base64.
2057 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2058 name of the variable that was being set.
2060 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2062 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2063 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2064 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2065 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2066 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2067 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2069 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2071 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2072 nor realm was specified.
2074 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2075 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2076 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2077 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2079 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2080 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2081 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2083 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2084 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2085 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2087 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2088 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2089 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2090 some systems use these upper case variants.
2092 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2093 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2094 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2095 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2097 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2099 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2100 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2102 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2103 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2106 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2108 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2109 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2110 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2111 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2113 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2116 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2117 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2118 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2120 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2121 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2123 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2124 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2125 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2126 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2128 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2129 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2130 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2132 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2134 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2135 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2136 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2137 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2140 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2141 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2142 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2144 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2146 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2147 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2149 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2150 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2152 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2153 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2154 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2155 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2156 when emails are that large.
2163 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2164 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2166 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2167 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2168 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2170 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2171 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2172 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2174 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2175 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2176 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2177 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2178 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2180 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2181 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2182 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2183 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2184 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2187 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2188 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2189 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2190 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2191 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2192 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2193 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2194 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2195 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2196 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2197 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2198 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2199 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2200 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2202 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2203 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2206 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2207 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2208 error should be diagnosed.
2210 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2211 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2212 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2213 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2214 appeared instead of "NULL".
2216 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2217 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2218 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2219 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2220 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2221 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2224 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2225 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2226 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2232 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2233 or receiver verification errors.
2235 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2238 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2239 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2240 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2241 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2243 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2244 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2245 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2246 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2247 shouldn't happen again.
2249 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2250 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2251 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2253 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2254 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2256 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2258 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2259 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2261 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2262 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2265 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2266 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2267 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2269 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2270 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2271 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2272 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2274 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2275 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2276 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2277 to define what should happen).
2279 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2280 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2281 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2283 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2285 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2287 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2288 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2290 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2291 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2292 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2293 structure in all cases.
2295 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2296 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2297 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2298 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2300 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
2301 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
2304 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
2305 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
2307 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
2308 MD5 (which is deprecated).
2310 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
2311 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
2312 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
2314 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
2315 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
2316 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
2318 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
2319 the book and for uniformity.
2321 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
2323 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2324 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
2325 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
2326 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
2327 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
2328 non-existent command as the problem.
2330 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
2331 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
2332 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
2334 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
2336 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
2337 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
2338 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
2340 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
2341 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
2342 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
2343 timestamps using strftime().
2345 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
2346 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
2348 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
2349 transport-time rewrites.
2351 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
2352 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
2353 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
2354 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
2356 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
2357 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
2359 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
2360 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
2361 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
2362 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
2365 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
2366 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
2367 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
2368 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
2369 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
2370 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
2371 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
2373 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
2374 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
2375 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
2376 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
2377 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
2379 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
2380 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
2381 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
2382 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
2383 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
2384 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
2385 remaining text gets split now.
2387 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
2388 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
2389 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
2390 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
2392 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
2393 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
2394 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
2395 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
2398 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
2399 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
2400 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
2401 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
2402 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
2403 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
2404 passed through if needed.
2406 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
2407 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
2408 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
2409 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
2410 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
2411 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
2413 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
2414 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
2415 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
2416 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
2417 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
2419 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
2420 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
2421 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
2422 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
2423 incorrect size information for certain domains.
2425 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
2426 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
2429 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
2430 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
2431 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
2432 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
2433 mayhem of various kinds.
2435 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
2436 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
2437 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
2438 the right test for positive values.
2440 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
2441 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
2442 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
2443 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
2444 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
2445 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
2446 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
2447 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
2448 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
2449 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
2452 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
2455 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
2456 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
2459 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
2460 the existing equality matching.
2462 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
2463 dealing with inode numbers.
2465 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
2466 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
2467 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
2469 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
2470 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
2471 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
2472 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
2475 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
2476 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
2477 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
2478 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
2479 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
2480 relay addresses has also been removed.
2482 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
2484 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
2485 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
2486 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
2488 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
2489 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
2490 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
2491 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
2492 processing applies to CR:
2494 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
2495 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
2497 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
2498 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
2499 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
2500 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
2502 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
2503 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
2504 This is a VOB (very old bug).
2506 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
2507 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
2508 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
2509 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
2510 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
2511 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
2514 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
2517 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
2518 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
2519 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
2520 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
2523 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2525 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
2527 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
2529 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
2530 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
2531 not considered personal.
2533 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
2535 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
2537 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
2539 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
2540 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
2541 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
2542 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
2543 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
2544 header lines, and spool format errors.
2546 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
2547 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
2548 for more flexibility.
2550 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
2551 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
2552 consulting and updating the callout cache.
2554 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
2557 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
2558 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
2559 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
2560 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
2561 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
2562 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
2563 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
2564 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
2565 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
2567 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
2568 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
2569 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
2570 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
2571 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
2572 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
2573 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
2575 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
2576 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
2577 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
2579 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
2580 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
2581 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
2582 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
2583 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
2584 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
2585 instead of killing the process with assert().
2587 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
2588 than Unicode encoding.
2590 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
2591 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
2592 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
2593 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
2595 77. Added process_log_path.
2597 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
2598 check_log_inodes was ignored.
2600 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
2601 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
2603 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
2604 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
2605 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
2607 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
2608 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
2609 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
2610 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
2611 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
2614 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
2615 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
2618 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
2619 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
2620 they will be used during message reception.
2626 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.