1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.67 2005/01/12 12:51:54 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
11 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
12 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
14 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
15 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
18 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
19 filter fails to execute.
21 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
22 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
23 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
24 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
25 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
27 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
29 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
30 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
31 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
32 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
34 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
35 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
36 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
37 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
38 control that does not make sense is encountered.
40 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
42 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
44 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
45 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
46 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
47 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
49 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
50 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
53 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
54 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
56 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
58 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
61 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
62 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
64 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
65 the spool by the -Mrm option.
67 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
68 information about exactly what failed.
70 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
72 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
73 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
74 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
76 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
77 It is now set to "smtps".
79 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
82 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
83 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
84 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
85 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
88 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
89 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
90 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
92 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
93 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
94 wake it up if nothing else does.
96 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
97 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
98 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
101 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
102 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
104 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
106 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
107 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
108 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
109 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
110 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
111 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
112 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
113 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
115 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
116 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
119 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
120 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
121 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
122 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
124 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
125 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
126 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
127 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
128 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
131 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
132 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
133 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
134 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
136 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
137 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
140 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
141 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
142 $sender_host_address.
144 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
145 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
146 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
147 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
148 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
151 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
153 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
154 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
156 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
157 just the host names, not the priorities.
159 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
160 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
161 controlled by a keyword.
163 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
164 multiple records are returned.
166 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
167 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
170 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
172 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
173 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
175 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
176 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
177 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
179 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
181 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
183 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
185 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
186 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
187 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
188 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
189 because the tests only now provoked it.
191 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
192 (this can affect the format of dates).
194 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
195 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
196 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
197 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
199 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
201 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
202 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
203 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
204 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
206 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
207 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
208 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
210 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
213 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
214 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
215 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
216 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
217 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
218 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
221 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
222 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
223 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
226 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
227 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
228 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
230 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
231 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
232 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
233 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
234 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
235 so I produce this patch..."
237 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
238 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
239 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
240 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
242 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
244 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
245 long debug lines gets shown.
247 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
248 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
250 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
252 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
253 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
254 of $primary_hostname.
256 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
257 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
258 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
259 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
260 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
261 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
262 by change 4.50/55 above.
264 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
265 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
266 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
267 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
268 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
271 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
272 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
273 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
275 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
276 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
278 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
279 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
280 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
281 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
282 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
284 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
287 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
288 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
289 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
290 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
293 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
295 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
296 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
297 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
298 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
300 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
301 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
303 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
304 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
305 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
311 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
312 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
313 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
314 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
315 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
316 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
317 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
319 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
320 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
323 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
325 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
327 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
328 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
331 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
332 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
333 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
334 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
335 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
337 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
338 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
340 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
342 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
344 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
347 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
348 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
350 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
351 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
352 affecting debugging statements).
354 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
356 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
357 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
358 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
359 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
360 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
361 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
362 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
363 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
364 after the received time, and all would be well.
366 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
367 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
368 condition in an expansion string.
370 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
372 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
373 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
374 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
375 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
376 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
377 job under whatever limits there are.
379 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
381 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
384 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
385 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
386 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
387 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
390 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
391 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
392 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
393 binary data in such strings.
395 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
397 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
398 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
399 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
400 failure, which is pointless.
402 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
404 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
406 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
407 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
408 Sender: header lines.
410 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
411 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
412 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
414 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
415 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
416 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
417 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
418 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
421 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
422 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
423 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
424 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
425 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
427 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
428 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
429 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
432 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
433 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
435 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
436 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
438 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
440 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
442 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
444 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
447 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
449 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
451 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
452 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
453 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
454 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
456 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
457 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
463 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
464 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
465 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
467 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
468 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
469 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
470 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
471 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
472 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
474 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
475 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
476 verification failure".
478 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
479 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
480 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
481 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
483 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
484 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
485 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
486 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
487 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
488 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
489 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
490 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
491 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
492 treated as a timeout.
494 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
495 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
496 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
497 not set for Exim filters).
499 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
500 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
501 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
503 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
505 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
506 try to make them clearer.
508 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
509 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
511 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
513 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
515 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
516 only the Cygwin environment.
518 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
519 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
520 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
521 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
522 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
524 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
525 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
526 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
527 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
528 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
529 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
530 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
532 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
533 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
535 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
537 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
538 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
539 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
541 To: susanne@some.where
543 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
544 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
545 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
546 of addresses in From: header lines).
548 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
549 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
550 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
552 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
553 treated as non-personal.
555 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
556 because it now seems ill-conceived.
558 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
560 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
562 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
563 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
564 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
566 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
567 ACL and the local_scan() function.
569 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
570 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
571 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
572 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
573 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
574 (I found it when inspecting the code).
576 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
577 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
578 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
579 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
580 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
581 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
582 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
583 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
585 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
587 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
588 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
590 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
591 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
592 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
594 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
595 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
597 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
598 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
599 rather than long int.
601 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
603 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
609 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
610 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
611 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
612 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
613 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
614 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
620 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
621 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
623 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
624 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
625 socklen_t is defined.
627 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
630 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
633 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
634 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
635 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
636 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
637 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
639 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
640 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
641 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
642 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
644 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
645 of flapping under certain conditions.
647 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
648 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
649 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
651 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
653 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
655 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
656 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
657 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
658 the duration of the SMTP connection.
660 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
661 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
662 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
663 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
664 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
665 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
666 preserved with the message after it was received.
668 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
669 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
670 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
671 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
672 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
673 test suite worked just fine.
675 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
676 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
677 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
679 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
680 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
683 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
684 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
685 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
686 does not fully solve it.
688 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
689 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
690 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
691 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
692 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
694 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
695 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
696 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
698 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
701 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
703 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
704 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
705 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
706 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
707 the routers could not see them.
709 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
710 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
712 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
713 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
716 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
717 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
718 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
719 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
722 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
723 was not being matched caselessly.
725 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
728 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
729 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
730 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
731 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
732 when use_sender is false.
734 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
736 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
738 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
740 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
741 the configuration file.
743 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
744 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
746 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
748 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
749 bytes in the message body.
751 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
752 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
755 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
757 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
759 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
760 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
761 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
762 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
769 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
770 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
772 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
773 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
774 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
775 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
776 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
778 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
779 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
781 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
782 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
783 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
785 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
786 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
787 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
789 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
792 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
793 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
794 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
795 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
796 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
797 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
798 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
804 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
805 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
806 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
807 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
808 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
809 default (and expected) setting.
811 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
812 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
813 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
814 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
816 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
817 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
819 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
822 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
823 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
824 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
825 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
826 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
827 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
829 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
830 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
831 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
833 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
834 part (NOT match_host).
836 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
838 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
839 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
840 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
841 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
842 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
843 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
844 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
845 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
848 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
849 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
852 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
853 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
854 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
855 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
858 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
859 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
860 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
862 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
864 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
866 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
868 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
869 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
871 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
872 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
873 before starting the TLS session.
875 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
877 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
878 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
880 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
881 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
882 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
883 colon in the middle).
889 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
890 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
891 multiple configurations are in use.
893 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
894 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
895 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
896 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
897 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
898 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
900 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
901 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
903 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
904 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
905 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
907 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
908 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
911 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
912 that used bh_ and bheader_.
914 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
916 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
917 allowing one more file than it should have been.
919 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
927 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
928 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
929 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
930 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
931 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
933 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
936 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
937 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
938 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
939 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
940 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
941 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
943 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
944 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
945 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
946 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
947 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
948 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
949 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
952 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
953 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
954 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
955 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
956 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
958 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
960 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
961 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
962 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
964 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
966 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
967 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
968 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
971 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
972 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
974 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
975 Three changes have been made:
977 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
978 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
979 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
980 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
981 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
983 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
986 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
987 the modified behaviour.
993 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
996 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
997 indeed breaks things for older releases.
999 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1000 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1001 try to track down a specific problem.
1003 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1004 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1005 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1007 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1010 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1011 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1012 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1013 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1014 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1015 some earlier ones do not.
1017 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1019 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1020 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1021 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1022 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1023 address literals are enabled, of course).
1025 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
1027 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
1028 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
1029 by a command such as
1033 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
1035 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
1037 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
1038 remained set. It is now erased.
1040 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
1041 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
1043 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
1044 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
1045 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
1046 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
1047 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
1048 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
1049 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
1050 appropriate error code.
1052 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
1053 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
1054 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
1055 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
1056 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
1057 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
1059 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
1060 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
1061 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
1063 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
1064 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
1065 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
1066 terminate the header.
1068 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
1069 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
1070 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
1072 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
1073 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
1074 (4.30/29). In particular:
1076 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
1079 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
1080 to write a maildirsize file.
1082 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
1083 the transport, the new value overrides.
1085 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
1088 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
1089 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
1090 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
1093 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
1094 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
1095 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
1098 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
1099 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
1100 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
1102 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
1103 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
1106 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
1107 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
1108 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
1110 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
1112 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
1114 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
1116 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
1117 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
1120 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
1121 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
1122 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
1123 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
1124 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
1125 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
1126 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
1129 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
1130 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
1131 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
1132 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
1133 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
1136 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
1137 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
1138 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
1139 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
1140 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
1141 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
1142 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
1143 cached value only when the same options are set.
1145 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
1147 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
1148 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
1149 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
1150 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
1151 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
1153 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
1154 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
1155 it is clearly obsolete.
1157 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
1160 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
1161 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
1162 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
1165 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
1166 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
1167 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
1168 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
1169 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
1171 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
1172 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
1173 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
1174 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
1176 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
1178 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
1180 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
1181 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
1184 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
1185 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
1186 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
1187 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
1188 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
1189 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
1192 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
1193 with the -f command-line option.
1195 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
1196 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
1197 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
1198 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
1199 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
1200 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1202 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
1203 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
1206 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
1207 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
1208 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
1209 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
1210 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
1211 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
1212 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
1213 buffer is too small.
1215 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
1216 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
1218 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
1219 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
1220 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
1221 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
1222 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
1223 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
1224 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
1225 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
1226 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
1228 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
1229 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
1230 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
1232 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
1233 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
1236 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
1237 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
1238 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
1239 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
1240 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
1242 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
1243 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
1244 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
1245 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
1248 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
1250 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
1252 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
1253 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
1255 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
1256 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
1257 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
1259 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
1260 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
1261 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
1262 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
1263 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
1265 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
1266 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
1267 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
1268 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
1269 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
1270 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
1271 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
1273 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
1274 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
1275 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
1276 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
1277 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
1278 the test of how many are available.
1280 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
1281 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
1282 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
1283 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
1284 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
1285 new message is started.
1287 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
1288 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
1290 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
1291 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
1293 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
1294 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
1295 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
1298 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
1299 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
1300 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
1301 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
1302 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
1303 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
1304 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
1306 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
1307 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
1308 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
1309 interpreted as octal.
1311 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
1314 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
1315 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
1316 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
1317 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
1318 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
1319 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
1321 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
1322 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
1323 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
1324 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
1326 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
1327 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
1328 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
1329 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
1331 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
1332 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
1335 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
1336 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
1338 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1340 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
1341 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
1342 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
1343 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
1345 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
1346 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
1347 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
1348 supplied", which is not helpful.
1350 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
1351 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
1352 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
1354 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
1355 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
1356 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
1357 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
1358 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
1359 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
1360 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
1361 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
1363 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
1364 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
1365 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
1366 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
1367 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
1369 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
1370 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
1371 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
1372 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
1373 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
1374 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
1376 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
1377 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
1378 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
1380 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
1382 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
1383 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
1384 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
1387 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
1389 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
1390 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
1391 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
1392 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
1393 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
1394 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
1395 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
1396 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
1398 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
1399 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
1400 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
1401 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
1402 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
1404 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
1407 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
1408 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
1409 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
1410 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
1411 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
1412 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
1413 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
1414 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
1415 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
1421 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
1422 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
1423 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
1425 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
1428 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
1429 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
1430 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
1432 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
1433 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
1434 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
1435 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
1436 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
1437 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
1439 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
1440 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
1441 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
1442 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
1443 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
1444 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
1445 the Exim test suite.
1447 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
1448 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
1449 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
1450 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
1452 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
1453 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
1454 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
1455 specify it in this variable.
1457 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
1458 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
1459 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
1460 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
1462 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
1463 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
1464 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
1465 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
1467 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
1468 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
1469 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
1470 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
1471 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
1473 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
1475 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
1478 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
1479 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
1480 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
1481 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
1482 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
1484 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
1485 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
1487 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
1488 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
1489 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
1490 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
1491 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
1493 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
1494 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
1496 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
1497 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1498 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
1500 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
1501 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
1503 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
1504 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
1506 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
1507 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
1508 to get rid of the compiler warning.
1510 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
1511 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
1513 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
1514 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
1515 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
1516 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
1518 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
1520 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
1521 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
1522 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
1523 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
1525 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
1527 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
1528 line; previously there was no indication of these.
1530 25. Added .include_if_exists.
1532 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
1533 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
1534 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
1535 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
1536 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
1537 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
1539 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
1541 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
1542 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
1545 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
1547 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
1548 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
1550 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
1551 550 Sender verify failed
1553 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
1554 the final line of the response.
1556 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
1557 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
1558 all other user lookups.
1560 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
1563 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
1564 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
1565 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
1566 result into an int without checking.
1568 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
1569 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
1570 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
1572 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
1573 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
1574 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
1575 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
1577 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
1580 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
1581 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
1583 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
1584 to the empty sender.
1586 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
1587 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
1588 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
1589 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
1590 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
1591 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
1592 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
1595 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
1596 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
1597 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
1598 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
1601 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
1602 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
1604 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
1607 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
1608 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
1610 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
1612 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
1613 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
1616 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
1617 as soon as it is encountered.
1619 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
1621 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
1624 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
1625 recognizes a tab character.
1627 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
1628 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
1629 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
1630 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
1632 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
1634 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
1637 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
1639 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
1641 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
1642 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
1645 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
1646 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
1647 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
1648 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
1649 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
1651 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
1652 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
1654 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
1655 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
1656 list (.included file names were always shown).
1658 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
1659 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
1660 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
1663 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
1664 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
1666 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
1668 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
1670 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
1672 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
1673 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
1674 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
1675 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
1676 failures to open the logs.
1678 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
1679 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
1680 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
1681 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
1682 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
1683 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
1684 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
1690 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
1691 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
1692 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
1695 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
1696 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
1697 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
1699 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
1700 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
1701 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
1703 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
1704 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
1705 causing some misleading effects.
1707 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
1708 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
1709 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
1711 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
1712 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
1713 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
1714 queue-runner function directly.
1720 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
1723 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
1724 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
1725 was always written to the default place.
1727 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
1728 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
1729 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
1731 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
1733 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
1735 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
1736 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
1737 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
1739 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
1740 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
1743 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
1744 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
1745 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
1747 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
1748 command line option is disabled.
1750 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
1751 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
1753 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
1755 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
1757 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
1758 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
1760 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
1762 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
1763 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
1764 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
1765 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
1766 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
1767 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
1769 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
1770 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
1773 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
1774 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
1776 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
1777 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
1779 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
1780 received was valid base64.
1782 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
1783 name of the variable that was being set.
1785 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
1787 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
1788 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
1789 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
1790 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
1791 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
1792 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
1794 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
1796 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
1797 nor realm was specified.
1799 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
1800 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
1801 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
1802 errors are given to SMTP connections.
1804 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
1805 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
1806 failing to send a response to QUIT.
1808 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
1809 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
1810 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
1812 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
1813 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
1814 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
1815 some systems use these upper case variants.
1817 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
1818 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
1819 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
1820 socket" when it tried to send the third.
1822 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
1824 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
1825 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
1827 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
1828 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
1831 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
1833 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
1834 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
1835 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
1836 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
1838 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
1841 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
1842 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
1843 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
1845 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
1846 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
1848 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
1849 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
1850 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
1851 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
1853 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
1854 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
1855 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
1857 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
1859 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
1860 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
1861 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
1862 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
1865 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
1866 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
1867 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
1869 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
1871 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
1872 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
1874 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
1875 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
1877 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
1878 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
1879 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
1880 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
1881 when emails are that large.
1888 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
1889 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
1891 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
1892 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
1893 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
1895 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
1896 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
1897 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
1899 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
1900 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
1901 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
1902 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
1903 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
1905 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
1906 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
1907 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
1908 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
1909 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
1912 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
1913 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
1914 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
1915 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
1916 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
1917 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
1918 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
1919 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
1920 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
1921 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
1922 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
1923 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
1924 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
1925 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
1927 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
1928 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
1931 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
1932 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
1933 error should be diagnosed.
1935 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
1936 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
1937 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
1938 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
1939 appeared instead of "NULL".
1941 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
1942 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
1943 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
1944 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
1945 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
1946 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
1949 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
1950 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
1951 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
1957 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
1958 or receiver verification errors.
1960 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
1963 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
1964 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
1965 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
1966 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
1968 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
1969 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
1970 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
1971 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
1972 shouldn't happen again.
1974 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
1975 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
1976 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
1978 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
1979 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
1981 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
1983 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
1984 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
1986 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
1987 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
1990 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
1991 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
1992 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
1994 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
1995 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
1996 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
1997 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
1999 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2000 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2001 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2002 to define what should happen).
2004 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2005 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2006 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2008 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2010 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2012 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2013 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2015 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2016 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2017 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2018 structure in all cases.
2020 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2021 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2022 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2023 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2025 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
2026 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
2029 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
2030 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
2032 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
2033 MD5 (which is deprecated).
2035 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
2036 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
2037 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
2039 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
2040 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
2041 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
2043 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
2044 the book and for uniformity.
2046 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
2048 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2049 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
2050 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
2051 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
2052 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
2053 non-existent command as the problem.
2055 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
2056 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
2057 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
2059 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
2061 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
2062 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
2063 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
2065 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
2066 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
2067 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
2068 timestamps using strftime().
2070 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
2071 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
2073 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
2074 transport-time rewrites.
2076 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
2077 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
2078 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
2079 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
2081 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
2082 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
2084 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
2085 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
2086 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
2087 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
2090 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
2091 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
2092 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
2093 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
2094 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
2095 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
2096 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
2098 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
2099 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
2100 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
2101 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
2102 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
2104 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
2105 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
2106 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
2107 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
2108 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
2109 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
2110 remaining text gets split now.
2112 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
2113 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
2114 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
2115 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
2117 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
2118 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
2119 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
2120 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
2123 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
2124 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
2125 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
2126 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
2127 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
2128 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
2129 passed through if needed.
2131 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
2132 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
2133 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
2134 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
2135 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
2136 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
2138 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
2139 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
2140 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
2141 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
2142 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
2144 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
2145 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
2146 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
2147 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
2148 incorrect size information for certain domains.
2150 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
2151 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
2154 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
2155 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
2156 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
2157 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
2158 mayhem of various kinds.
2160 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
2161 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
2162 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
2163 the right test for positive values.
2165 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
2166 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
2167 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
2168 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
2169 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
2170 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
2171 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
2172 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
2173 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
2174 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
2177 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
2180 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
2181 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
2184 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
2185 the existing equality matching.
2187 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
2188 dealing with inode numbers.
2190 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
2191 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
2192 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
2194 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
2195 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
2196 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
2197 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
2200 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
2201 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
2202 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
2203 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
2204 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
2205 relay addresses has also been removed.
2207 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
2209 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
2210 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
2211 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
2213 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
2214 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
2215 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
2216 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
2217 processing applies to CR:
2219 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
2220 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
2222 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
2223 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
2224 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
2225 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
2227 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
2228 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
2229 This is a VOB (very old bug).
2231 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
2232 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
2233 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
2234 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
2235 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
2236 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
2239 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
2242 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
2243 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
2244 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
2245 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
2248 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2250 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
2252 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
2254 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
2255 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
2256 not considered personal.
2258 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
2260 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
2262 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
2264 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
2265 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
2266 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
2267 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
2268 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
2269 header lines, and spool format errors.
2271 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
2272 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
2273 for more flexibility.
2275 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
2276 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
2277 consulting and updating the callout cache.
2279 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
2282 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
2283 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
2284 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
2285 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
2286 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
2287 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
2288 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
2289 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
2290 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
2292 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
2293 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
2294 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
2295 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
2296 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
2297 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
2298 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
2300 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
2301 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
2302 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
2304 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
2305 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
2306 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
2307 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
2308 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
2309 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
2310 instead of killing the process with assert().
2312 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
2313 than Unicode encoding.
2315 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
2316 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
2317 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
2318 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
2320 77. Added process_log_path.
2322 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
2323 check_log_inodes was ignored.
2325 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
2326 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
2328 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
2329 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
2330 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
2332 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
2333 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
2334 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
2335 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
2336 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
2339 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
2340 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
2343 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
2344 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
2345 they will be used during message reception.
2351 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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