1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
9 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
12 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
15 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
19 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
21 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
27 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
34 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
36 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
38 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
41 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
45 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
47 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
49 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
51 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
53 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
54 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
56 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
58 PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
60 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
61 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
63 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
64 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
67 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
69 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
71 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
72 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
74 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
77 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
78 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
80 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
81 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
83 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
86 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
89 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
92 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
94 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
95 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
96 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
97 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
99 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
101 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
102 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
103 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
104 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
107 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
108 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
109 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
111 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
112 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
113 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
114 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
116 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
117 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
118 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
119 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
120 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
121 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
122 delivery, as in LMTP.
124 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
125 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
127 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
129 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
133 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
134 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
135 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
136 username as equal to the username.
138 This change corrects that bug.
140 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
141 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
142 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
144 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
146 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
147 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
148 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
149 NULL dereference and crash.
151 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
153 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
154 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
155 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
157 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
159 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
160 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
161 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
162 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
163 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
164 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
165 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
166 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
167 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
168 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
169 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
171 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
172 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
174 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
175 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
178 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
179 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
180 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
181 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
182 an empty string is now equivalent.
184 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
185 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
186 not performing validation itself.
188 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
189 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
195 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
197 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
203 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
204 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
205 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
207 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
209 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
212 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
214 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
216 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
218 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
219 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
221 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
222 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
224 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
225 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
227 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
228 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
229 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
231 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
233 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
234 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
236 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
238 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
240 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
241 non-compliant senders.
242 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
244 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
245 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
246 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
248 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
249 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
250 in spool file corruption.
252 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
253 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
254 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
257 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
258 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
259 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
261 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
262 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
264 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
266 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
268 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
270 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
271 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
272 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
274 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
275 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
276 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
277 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
279 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
280 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
282 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
283 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
284 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
285 resolver implementation change.
287 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
288 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
290 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
292 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
294 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
295 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
297 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
298 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
300 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
301 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
303 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
304 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
305 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
306 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
307 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
309 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
311 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
312 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
313 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
315 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
317 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
318 read-only, out of scope).
319 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
321 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
322 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
323 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
324 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
326 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
328 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
329 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
330 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
331 real issues in debug logging.
333 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
334 assignment on my part. Fixed.
336 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
337 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
338 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
340 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
341 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
342 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
345 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
346 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
348 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
349 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
350 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
351 needs to override this, it can.
353 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
354 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
355 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
357 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
358 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
359 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
360 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
362 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
368 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
369 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
371 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
373 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
376 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
377 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
379 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
380 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
381 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
383 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
384 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
385 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
386 not safe for signals.
388 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
389 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
390 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
391 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
394 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
396 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
397 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
398 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
399 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
400 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
402 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
403 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
404 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
405 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
406 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
407 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
409 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
410 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
411 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
412 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
414 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
415 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
416 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
417 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
419 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
420 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
421 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
422 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
423 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
424 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
425 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
426 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
427 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
429 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
430 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
431 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
432 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
434 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
435 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
436 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
437 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
438 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
439 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
440 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
441 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
442 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
443 details in the main documentation.
445 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
447 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
449 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
450 repository when doing development or release builds.
452 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
453 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
455 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
456 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
459 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
461 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
462 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
464 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
465 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
467 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
468 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
470 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
471 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
473 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
474 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
476 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
478 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
481 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
482 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
483 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
485 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
487 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
489 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
490 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
496 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
498 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
499 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
501 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
503 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
505 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
508 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
509 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
511 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
512 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
514 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
517 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
520 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
521 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
523 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
524 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
525 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
526 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
528 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
529 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
535 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
538 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
539 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
540 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
542 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
543 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
545 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
546 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
547 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
549 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
550 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
552 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
553 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
555 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
556 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
558 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
559 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
561 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
562 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
564 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
567 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
568 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
570 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
571 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
573 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
574 SQL string expansion failure details.
575 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
577 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
578 Patch from Simon Arlott.
580 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
581 extern declarations in function scope.
582 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
584 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
585 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
586 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
589 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
590 Patch from Mark Zealey.
592 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
593 Patch from Mark Zealey.
595 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
596 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
598 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
599 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
601 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
602 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
605 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
607 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
609 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
610 Patch by Simon Arlott
612 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
613 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
619 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
620 consequences so log it to the panic log.
622 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
623 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
625 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
627 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
628 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
629 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
631 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
632 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
633 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
635 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
636 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
637 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
638 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
640 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
641 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
642 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
643 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
645 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
646 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
647 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
650 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
653 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
654 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
655 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
656 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
657 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
663 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
664 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
665 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
667 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
668 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
670 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
672 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
674 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
676 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
678 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
680 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
681 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
682 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
683 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
685 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
686 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
687 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
688 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
689 more caution in buffer sizes.
691 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
693 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
695 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
697 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
699 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
701 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
703 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
705 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
706 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
707 ignore trailing whitespace.
709 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
711 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
714 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
715 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
717 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
718 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
719 Notification from John Horne.
721 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
724 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
725 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
728 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
731 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
732 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
733 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
735 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
736 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
737 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
740 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
741 option (effectively making it always true).
743 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
744 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
746 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
747 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
749 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
750 run-time user, instead of root.
752 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
753 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
755 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
756 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
759 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
760 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
761 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
763 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
765 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
771 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
772 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
775 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
776 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
779 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
780 Patch from Alain Williams
782 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
784 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
785 Patch from Andreas Metzler
787 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
788 Patch from Kirill Miazine
790 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
792 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
794 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
795 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
797 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
799 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
801 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
802 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
803 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
805 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
806 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
808 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
809 Patch by Simon Arlott
811 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
812 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
818 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
820 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
822 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
824 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
826 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
832 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
833 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
835 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
836 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
839 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
840 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
841 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
843 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
844 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
846 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
847 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
848 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
849 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
851 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
852 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
853 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
855 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
857 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
859 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
860 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
862 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
864 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
865 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
866 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
867 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
869 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
870 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
872 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
874 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
876 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
877 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
879 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
880 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
882 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
883 that they are available at delivery time.
885 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
887 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
888 incoming_port log selectors.
890 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
891 setting expands to an empty string.
893 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
894 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
896 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
897 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
899 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
900 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
902 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
903 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
905 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
906 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
908 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
909 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
911 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
913 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
914 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
916 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
917 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
919 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
921 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
922 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
924 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
926 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
928 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
931 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
932 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
934 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
935 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
937 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
938 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
940 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
941 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
943 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
944 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
946 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
947 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
949 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
950 plus update to original patch.
952 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
954 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
955 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
957 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
959 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
961 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
963 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
965 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
966 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
968 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
969 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
971 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
972 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
974 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
975 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
977 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
979 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
981 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
983 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
989 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
990 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
991 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
993 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
994 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
995 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
996 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
997 build errors in sieve.c.
999 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1000 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1001 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1003 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1005 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1007 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1009 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1015 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1017 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1018 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1019 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1020 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1021 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1022 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1023 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1024 for iplsearch lookups.
1026 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1027 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1028 previously such lookups could never work.
1030 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1031 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1032 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1034 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1037 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1038 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1039 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1040 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1041 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1042 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1044 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1045 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1047 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1048 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1049 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1050 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1051 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1052 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1054 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1057 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1059 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1060 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1063 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1064 by clients under certain conditions.
1066 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1067 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1069 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1071 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1072 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1074 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1076 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1078 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1080 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1081 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1083 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1085 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1086 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1088 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1090 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1092 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1093 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1094 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1095 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1097 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1098 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1099 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1101 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1102 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1104 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1106 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1108 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1110 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1111 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1112 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1118 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1119 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1122 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1123 issue a MAIL command.
1125 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1127 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1129 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1130 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1131 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1132 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1133 item. This has been fixed.
1135 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1136 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1138 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1139 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1141 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1142 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1143 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1145 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1147 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1148 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1149 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1150 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1151 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1153 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1154 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1155 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1157 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1158 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1159 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1160 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1162 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1164 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1166 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1167 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1168 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1169 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1170 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1172 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1174 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1175 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1176 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1179 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1181 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1183 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1185 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1187 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1189 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1190 no_callout_flush is set.
1192 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1193 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1194 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1197 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1199 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1200 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1201 other ACL rejections are.
1203 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1204 with slight modification.
1206 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1207 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1209 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1210 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1213 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1214 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1216 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1218 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1219 expansion side effects.
1221 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1222 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1223 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1226 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1227 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1228 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1230 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1231 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1232 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1233 were accidentally chopped off.
1235 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1236 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1237 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1238 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1239 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1240 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1241 pipelining has not been advertised.
1243 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1245 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1246 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1247 This has been fixed.
1249 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1250 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1251 reported on Solaris.
1253 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1254 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1255 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1256 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1257 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1258 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1259 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1261 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1264 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1266 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1268 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1269 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1270 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1271 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1272 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1273 criteria to be more general.
1275 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1276 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1277 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1278 host_all_ignored option.
1280 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1281 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1282 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1283 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1284 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1285 is what is supposed to happen).
1287 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1288 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1289 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1290 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1291 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1294 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1295 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1296 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1297 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1298 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1299 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1302 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1304 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1305 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1307 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1308 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1310 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1312 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1314 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1315 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1316 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1317 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1318 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1319 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1320 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1321 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1322 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1323 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1324 least in a lot of common cases.
1326 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1327 advertised in response to EHLO.
1333 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1334 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1336 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1337 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1339 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1340 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1341 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1343 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1344 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1345 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1346 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1347 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1353 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1354 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1357 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1358 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1359 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1361 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1362 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1363 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1364 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1365 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1366 rather than extend the field.
1372 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1373 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1374 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1375 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1378 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1379 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1380 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1382 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1383 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1384 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1386 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1387 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1388 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1391 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1392 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1393 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1394 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1395 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1396 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1397 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1398 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1399 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1400 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1401 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1403 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1406 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1407 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1408 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1409 ignores EPIPE as well.
1411 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1412 (quoted-printable decoding).
1414 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1415 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1417 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1419 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1421 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1423 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1424 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1426 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1429 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1430 miscellaneous code fixes
1432 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1435 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1436 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1437 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1438 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1439 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1440 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1441 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1442 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1444 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1445 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1446 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1447 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1449 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1450 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1451 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1452 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1453 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1454 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1455 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1456 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1457 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1459 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1462 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1463 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1464 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1465 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1466 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1467 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1468 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1469 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1471 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1472 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1475 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1476 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1477 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1478 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1479 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1480 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1481 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1482 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1483 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1484 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1485 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1486 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1487 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1489 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1490 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1491 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1492 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1493 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1494 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1495 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1497 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1498 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1499 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1500 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1501 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1502 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1503 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1504 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1505 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1506 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1508 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1509 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1510 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1511 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1512 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1514 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1515 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1516 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1517 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1518 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1519 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1520 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1522 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1523 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1524 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1525 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1526 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1527 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1530 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1531 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1532 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1535 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1536 if any retry times were supplied.
1538 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1539 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1540 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1542 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1544 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1546 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1547 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1548 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1549 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1550 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1551 before) are ignored.
1553 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1554 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1556 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1557 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1558 committing the later change.]
1560 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1561 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1562 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1563 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1564 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1565 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1566 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1567 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1568 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1570 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1571 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1572 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1573 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1574 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1575 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1576 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1577 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1578 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1580 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1581 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1582 hammering the server.
1584 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1585 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1587 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1589 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1590 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1591 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1593 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1594 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1595 one case where this was not true.
1597 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1598 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1599 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1600 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1603 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1604 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1605 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1606 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1607 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1608 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1609 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1610 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1611 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1614 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1615 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1616 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1617 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1619 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1620 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1622 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1623 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1624 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1626 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1628 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1630 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1632 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1633 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1634 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1635 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1637 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1638 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1640 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1641 be meaningful with "accept".
1643 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1644 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1646 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1647 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1648 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1650 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1651 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1652 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1653 there is data to show.
1654 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1656 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1657 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1658 as well as the number of messages.
1660 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1661 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1662 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1664 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1665 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1666 have a flag are now skipped.
1668 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1669 Added the -emptyok flag.
1671 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1672 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1674 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1675 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1676 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1678 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1681 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1682 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1684 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1686 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1687 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1689 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1691 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1692 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1693 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1694 contravention of the specifications.
1696 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1697 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1698 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1700 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1701 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1702 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1704 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1706 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1707 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1708 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1709 some point in the past.
1711 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1712 transport during callout processing was broken.
1714 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1715 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1717 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1718 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1720 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1721 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1723 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1729 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1730 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1732 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1733 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1734 there is data to show.
1735 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1737 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1738 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1740 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1741 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1743 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1744 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1746 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1747 submissions from trusted users.
1749 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1750 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1752 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1753 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1754 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1755 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1756 there is now a framework to start from.
1758 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1759 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1760 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1762 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1764 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1766 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1768 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1769 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1770 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1772 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1775 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1776 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1777 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1779 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1780 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1781 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1784 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1785 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1786 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1787 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1788 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1790 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1791 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1793 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1795 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1796 operations in malware.c.
1798 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1801 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1802 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1803 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1806 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1807 statements to "add_header".
1809 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1810 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1812 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1813 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1816 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1820 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1821 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1822 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1825 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1826 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1828 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1829 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1831 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1832 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1833 any possible encoding problems.
1835 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1836 but not after initializing Perl.
1838 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1839 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1840 apparently, which is not desirable.
1842 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1845 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1848 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1850 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1851 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1852 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1853 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1855 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1856 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1857 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1859 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1860 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1861 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1864 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1865 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1866 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1867 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1868 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1874 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1875 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1877 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1880 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1881 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1882 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1883 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1884 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1885 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1886 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1887 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1890 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1892 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1893 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1894 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1896 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1897 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1898 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1901 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1902 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1904 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1905 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1906 option (which defaults to 0600).
1908 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1910 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1911 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1912 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1913 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1914 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1915 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1916 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1918 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1924 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1925 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1926 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1927 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1928 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1929 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1932 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1933 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1935 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1937 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1938 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1939 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1940 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1941 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1944 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1945 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1947 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1948 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1949 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1950 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1951 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1953 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1954 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1955 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1956 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1958 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1959 be the same on different OS.
1961 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1964 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1965 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1967 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1970 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1971 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1972 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1973 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1974 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1975 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1978 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1979 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1980 when Exim was called.
1982 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1983 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1985 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1986 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1987 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1988 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1990 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1991 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1992 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1993 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1996 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1997 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1998 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2000 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2001 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2002 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2004 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2007 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2008 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2009 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2010 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2011 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2012 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2013 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2014 values from the SRV records were lost.
2016 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2017 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2018 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2020 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2021 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2022 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2024 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2025 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2026 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2027 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2028 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2029 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2030 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2031 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2032 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2033 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2035 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2036 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2037 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2039 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2040 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2042 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2043 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2044 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2045 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2048 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2049 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2050 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2052 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2053 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2054 PH/23 above applies.
2056 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2057 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2058 (for which there is an explicit test).
2060 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2062 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2063 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2064 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2065 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2066 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2068 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2069 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2070 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2071 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2073 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2074 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2075 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2077 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2079 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2081 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2082 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2083 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2085 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2086 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2087 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2088 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2089 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2091 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2092 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2093 the message gets confusing).
2095 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2096 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2097 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2098 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2100 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2101 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2102 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2103 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2106 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2107 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2108 the different processes.
2110 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2112 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2114 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2115 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2117 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2118 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2120 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2121 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2122 messages matching specified criteria.
2124 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2126 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2127 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2129 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2130 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2131 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2132 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2133 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2134 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2135 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2136 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2137 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2138 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2140 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2141 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2142 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2144 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2146 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2147 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2148 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2149 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2150 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2151 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2152 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2155 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2156 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2158 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2160 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2162 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2164 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2165 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2166 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2167 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2168 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2169 size of the count of files.
2171 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2173 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2176 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2177 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2178 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2179 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2181 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2182 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2183 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2185 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2186 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2187 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2188 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2189 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2191 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2192 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2194 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2195 will now be deprecated.
2197 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2199 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2200 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2201 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2203 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2204 with very large, slow to parse queues
2206 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2208 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2210 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2211 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2212 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2215 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2216 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2217 Sieve code now uses this.
2219 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2220 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2222 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2223 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2225 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2227 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2228 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2229 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2230 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2231 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2233 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2234 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2235 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2236 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2238 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2240 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2242 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2243 is preferred over IPv4.
2245 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2246 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2247 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2248 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2249 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2250 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2251 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2253 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2254 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2255 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2257 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2259 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2260 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2261 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2262 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2263 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2264 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2265 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2266 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2267 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2268 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2269 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2271 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2272 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2273 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2279 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2281 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2282 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2284 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2285 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2286 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2288 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2290 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2293 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2296 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2297 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2298 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2301 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2302 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2304 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2305 inside the third argument.
2307 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2308 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2311 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2312 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2314 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2315 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2317 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2319 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2320 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2323 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2325 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2326 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2327 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2328 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2329 identical. For example:
2331 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2333 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2334 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2335 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2337 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2338 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2339 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2340 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2342 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2343 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2344 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2347 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2349 o fixes some comments
2350 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2351 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2352 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2353 and documents the missing references header update
2357 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2358 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2361 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2362 Electronic Mail") by including:
2364 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2366 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2367 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2368 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2369 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2370 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2372 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2374 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2376 The auto-replied keyword:
2378 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2379 message by an automatic process,
2381 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2383 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2384 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2386 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2387 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2390 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2391 to the default Received: header definition.
2393 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2395 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2396 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2397 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2399 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2400 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2401 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2403 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2404 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2405 and treats the condition as false.
2407 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2409 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2410 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2411 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2412 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2413 not changing the active code.
2415 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2416 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2418 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2419 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2421 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2424 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2425 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2426 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2427 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2428 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2429 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2430 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2431 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2432 the text comparison.
2434 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2435 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2436 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2437 The same fix has been applied.
2443 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2444 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2447 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2448 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2450 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2452 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2453 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2454 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2455 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2456 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2458 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2459 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2460 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2461 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2464 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2472 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2473 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2475 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2477 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2479 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2480 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2481 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2483 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2484 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2485 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2487 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2488 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2491 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2492 ${stat: expansion item.
2494 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2495 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2497 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2498 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2501 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2503 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2506 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2507 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2509 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2511 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2512 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2513 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2514 the end of the subprocess.
2516 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2517 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2518 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2519 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2520 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2522 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2524 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2526 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2527 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2529 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2531 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2533 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2534 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2537 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2539 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2540 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2541 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2543 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2544 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2546 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2547 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2549 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2550 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2552 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2553 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2555 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2556 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2557 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2558 contributed by a Radius user.
2560 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2561 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2563 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2564 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2566 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2569 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2570 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2573 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2574 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2575 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2576 header lines when this was not necessary.
2578 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2580 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2581 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2582 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2585 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2588 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2589 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2590 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2591 return code was incorrect.
2593 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2595 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2597 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2599 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2601 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2602 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2603 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2604 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2605 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2608 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2610 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2611 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2612 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2613 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2614 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2615 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2616 which is clearly wrong.
2618 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2620 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2621 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2622 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2625 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2626 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2628 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2630 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2631 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2633 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2634 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2636 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2637 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2639 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2640 recipients, not senders.
2642 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2643 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2645 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2647 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2649 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2650 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2651 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2652 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2654 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2656 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2657 clock is set back in time.
2659 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2660 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2662 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2663 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2665 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2666 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2669 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2670 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2673 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2676 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2678 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2679 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2680 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2682 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2683 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2684 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2685 helo verification defer as a failure.
2687 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2688 actual error message.
2694 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2696 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2697 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2698 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2699 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2701 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2703 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2704 can still be requested.
2706 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2707 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2708 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2709 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2711 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2712 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2713 circumstances, but probably never did.
2715 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2716 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2717 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2720 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2722 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2723 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2725 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2727 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2729 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2730 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2731 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2732 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2733 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2734 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2736 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2737 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2738 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2739 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2740 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2741 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2743 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2744 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2746 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2747 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2749 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2750 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2752 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2754 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2756 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2758 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2760 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2762 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2764 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2766 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2767 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2768 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2770 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2771 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2772 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2773 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2775 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2776 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2777 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2779 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2780 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2781 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2782 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2784 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2785 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2788 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2789 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2790 should work with maildirs and everything.
2792 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2793 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2795 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2798 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2799 function for BDB 4.3.
2801 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2803 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2804 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2807 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2808 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2809 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2810 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2811 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2812 formatting function string_vformat().
2814 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2815 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2816 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2817 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2818 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2819 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2820 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2821 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2823 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2824 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2827 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2828 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2830 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2831 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2832 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2833 test. It is now used for both.
2835 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2836 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2837 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2838 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2839 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2840 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2842 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2843 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2844 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2847 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2848 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2849 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2851 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2852 experimental DomainKeys support:
2854 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2855 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2856 the control was given.
2858 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2860 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2862 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2864 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2865 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2866 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2869 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2870 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2871 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2872 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2873 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2874 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2877 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2878 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2879 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2880 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2881 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2882 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2884 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2885 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2886 do -d+all out of habit.
2888 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2889 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2892 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2893 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2894 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2895 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2896 record types that Exim uses.
2898 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2899 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2900 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2901 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2902 non-existent file that was broken.
2904 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2905 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2907 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2908 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2909 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2911 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2913 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2914 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2915 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2916 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2917 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2920 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2921 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2922 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2923 at a slight CPU cost.
2925 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2926 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2928 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2931 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2933 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2934 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2940 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2941 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2943 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2945 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2947 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2948 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2950 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2951 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2952 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2953 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2954 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2955 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2958 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2959 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2960 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2961 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2964 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2965 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2966 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2967 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2968 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2969 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2970 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2973 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2974 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2976 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2977 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2978 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2979 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2980 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2981 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2983 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2984 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2985 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2986 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2988 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2991 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2992 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2994 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2995 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2996 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2997 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3000 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3002 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3003 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3005 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3006 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3007 to what was transported.)
3009 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3011 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3012 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3013 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3014 spamd_address settings.
3016 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3017 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3018 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3019 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3020 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3022 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3024 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3025 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3026 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3027 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3028 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3030 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3031 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3033 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3034 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3035 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3036 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3037 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3038 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3039 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3042 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3043 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3044 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3045 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3046 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3047 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3048 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3051 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3053 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3054 driver and ACL definitions.
3056 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3057 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3059 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3060 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3061 understands it better than I do:
3063 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3064 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3066 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3067 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3068 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3069 => three warnings about OTP not working
3070 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3072 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3073 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3074 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3075 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3077 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3078 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3080 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3081 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3082 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3084 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3085 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3088 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3089 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3092 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3093 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3094 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3096 warn !verify = sender
3097 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3099 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3100 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3102 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3104 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3105 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3107 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3108 nomenclature these days.)
3110 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3111 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3113 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3114 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3115 . First host does not offer TLS;
3116 . First host accepts first address;
3117 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3118 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3119 . Second host accepts second address.
3120 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3121 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3124 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3125 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3126 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3127 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3128 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3130 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3131 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3133 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3134 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3136 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3137 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3138 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3140 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3141 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3144 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3146 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3147 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3148 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3149 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3150 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3151 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3152 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3154 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3155 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3156 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3157 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3158 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3160 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3161 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3164 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3165 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3166 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3167 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3168 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3169 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3171 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3173 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3174 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3175 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3176 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3177 printable escape sequences.
3179 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3180 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3183 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3184 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3187 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3188 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3189 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3190 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3191 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3193 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3194 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3195 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3197 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3199 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3200 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3203 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3204 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3205 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3206 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3207 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3208 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3209 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3210 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3211 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3214 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3215 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3216 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3217 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3221 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3222 ----------------------------------------
3224 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3225 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3226 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3227 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3228 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3229 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3232 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3233 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3234 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3235 historical information.
3241 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3243 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3244 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3246 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3247 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3250 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3251 filter fails to execute.
3253 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3254 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3255 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3256 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3257 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3259 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3261 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3262 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3263 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3264 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3266 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3267 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3268 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3269 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3270 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3272 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3274 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3276 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3277 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3278 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3279 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3281 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3282 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3283 sender verification.
3285 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3286 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3288 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3290 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3293 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3294 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3296 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3297 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3299 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3300 information about exactly what failed.
3302 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3304 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3305 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3306 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3308 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3309 It is now set to "smtps".
3311 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3312 ignore_target_hosts.
3314 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3315 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3316 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3317 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3320 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3321 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3322 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3324 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3325 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3326 wake it up if nothing else does.
3328 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3329 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3330 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3333 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3334 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3336 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3338 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3339 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3340 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3341 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3342 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3343 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3344 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3345 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3347 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3348 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3349 than one IP address.
3351 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3352 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3353 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3354 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3356 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3357 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3358 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3359 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3360 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3363 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3364 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3365 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3366 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3368 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3369 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3372 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3373 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3374 $sender_host_address.
3376 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3377 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3378 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3379 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3380 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3383 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3385 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3386 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3388 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3389 just the host names, not the priorities.
3391 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3392 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3393 controlled by a keyword.
3395 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3396 multiple records are returned.
3398 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3399 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3402 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3404 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3405 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3407 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3408 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3409 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3411 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3413 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3415 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3417 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3418 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3419 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3420 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3421 because the tests only now provoked it.
3423 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3424 (this can affect the format of dates).
3426 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3427 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3428 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3429 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3431 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3433 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3434 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3435 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3436 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3438 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3439 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3440 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3442 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3445 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3446 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3447 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3448 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3449 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3450 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3453 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3454 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3455 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3458 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3459 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3460 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3462 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3463 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3464 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3465 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3466 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3467 so I produce this patch..."
3469 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3470 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3473 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3474 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3475 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3476 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3479 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3481 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3482 long debug lines gets shown.
3484 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3485 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3487 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3489 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3490 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3491 of $primary_hostname.
3493 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3494 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3495 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3496 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3497 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3498 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3499 by change 4.50/55 above.
3501 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3502 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3503 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3504 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3505 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3506 running as the user.
3509 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3510 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3511 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3514 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3515 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3517 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3518 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3519 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3520 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3521 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3523 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3524 This has been fixed.
3526 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3527 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3528 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3529 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3532 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3534 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3535 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3536 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3537 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3539 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3540 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3542 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3543 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3544 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3546 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3547 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3548 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3551 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3552 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3553 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3555 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3556 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3557 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3558 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3560 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3561 during host lookups.
3563 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3564 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3566 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3568 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3569 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3570 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3571 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3572 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3575 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3576 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3578 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3579 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3580 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3582 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3584 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3585 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3586 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3587 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3588 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3589 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3592 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3593 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3594 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3595 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3596 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3598 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3601 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3603 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3604 "vacation" handling.
3606 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3607 OS variants using glibc.
3609 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3612 ----------------------------------------------------
3613 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3614 ----------------------------------------------------
3620 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3621 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3624 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3625 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3628 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3629 filter fails to execute.
3631 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3632 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3633 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3634 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3635 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3637 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3638 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3639 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3640 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3642 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3643 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3644 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3645 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3646 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3648 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3650 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3651 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3652 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3653 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3655 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3656 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3657 sender verification.
3659 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3660 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3662 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3663 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3665 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3666 ignore_target_hosts.
3668 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3669 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3670 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3671 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3674 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3675 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3676 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3678 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3679 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3680 wake it up if nothing else does.
3682 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3683 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3684 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3687 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3688 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3690 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3692 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3693 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3696 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3697 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3700 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3701 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3702 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3703 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3704 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3707 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3708 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3711 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3712 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3713 $sender_host_address.
3715 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3717 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3718 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3719 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3721 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3724 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3725 (this can affect the format of dates).
3727 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3728 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3729 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3730 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3732 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3733 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3734 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3736 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3737 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3738 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3739 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3741 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3742 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3743 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3745 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3748 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3749 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3750 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3751 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3752 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3753 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3756 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3757 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3758 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3759 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3762 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3763 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3764 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3765 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3766 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3767 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3768 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3770 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3771 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3772 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3773 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3774 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3775 running as the user.
3778 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3779 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3780 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3783 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3784 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3785 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3786 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3787 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3789 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3790 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3791 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3792 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3795 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3796 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3797 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3798 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3799 because the tests only now provoked it.
3805 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3806 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3807 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3808 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3809 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3810 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3811 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3813 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3814 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3817 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3819 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3821 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3822 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3825 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3826 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3827 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3828 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3829 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3831 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3832 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3834 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3836 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3838 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3841 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3842 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3844 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3845 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3846 affecting debugging statements).
3848 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3850 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3851 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3852 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3853 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3854 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3855 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3856 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3857 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3858 after the received time, and all would be well.
3860 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3861 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3862 condition in an expansion string.
3864 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3866 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3867 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3868 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3869 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3870 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3871 job under whatever limits there are.
3873 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3875 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3878 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3879 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3880 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3881 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3884 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3885 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3886 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3887 binary data in such strings.
3889 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3891 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3892 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3893 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3894 failure, which is pointless.
3896 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3898 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3900 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3901 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3902 Sender: header lines.
3904 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3905 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3906 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3908 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3909 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3910 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3911 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3912 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3915 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3916 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3917 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3918 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3919 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3921 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3922 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3923 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3926 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3927 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3929 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3930 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3932 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3934 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3936 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3938 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3941 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3943 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3945 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3946 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3947 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3948 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3950 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3951 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3957 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3958 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3959 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3961 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3962 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3963 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3964 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3965 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3966 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3968 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3969 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3970 verification failure".
3972 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3973 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3974 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3975 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3977 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3978 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3979 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3980 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3981 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3982 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3983 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3984 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3985 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3986 treated as a timeout.
3988 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3989 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3990 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3991 not set for Exim filters).
3993 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3994 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3995 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3997 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3999 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4000 try to make them clearer.
4002 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4003 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4005 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4007 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4009 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4010 only the Cygwin environment.
4012 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4013 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4014 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4015 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4016 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4018 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4019 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4020 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4021 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4022 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4023 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4024 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4026 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4027 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4029 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4031 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4032 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4033 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4035 To: susanne@some.where
4037 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4038 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4039 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4040 of addresses in From: header lines).
4042 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4043 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4044 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4046 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4047 treated as non-personal.
4049 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4050 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4052 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4054 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4056 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4057 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4058 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4060 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4061 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4063 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4064 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4065 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4066 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4067 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4068 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4070 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4071 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4072 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4073 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4074 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4075 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4076 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4077 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4079 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4081 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4082 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4084 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4085 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4086 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4088 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4089 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4091 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4092 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4093 rather than long int.
4095 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4097 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4103 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4104 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4105 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4106 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4107 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4108 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4114 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4115 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4117 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4118 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4119 socklen_t is defined.
4121 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4124 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4127 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4128 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4129 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4130 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4131 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4133 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4134 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4135 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4136 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4138 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4139 of flapping under certain conditions.
4141 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4142 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4143 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4145 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4147 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4149 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4150 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4151 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4152 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4154 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4155 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4156 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4157 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4158 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4159 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4160 preserved with the message after it was received.
4162 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4163 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4164 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4165 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4166 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4167 test suite worked just fine.
4169 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4170 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4171 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4173 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4174 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4177 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4178 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4179 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4180 does not fully solve it.
4182 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4183 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4184 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4185 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4186 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4188 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4189 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4190 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4192 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4193 string, for example:
4195 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4197 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4198 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4199 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4200 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4201 the routers could not see them.
4203 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4204 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4206 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4207 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4210 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4211 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4212 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4213 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4214 that needed quoting.
4216 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4217 was not being matched caselessly.
4219 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4222 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4223 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4224 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4225 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4226 when use_sender is false.
4228 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4230 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4232 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4234 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4235 the configuration file.
4237 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4238 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4240 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4242 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4243 bytes in the message body.
4245 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4246 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4249 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4251 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4253 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4254 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4255 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4256 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4263 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4264 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4266 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4267 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4268 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4269 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4270 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4272 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4273 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4275 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4276 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4277 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4279 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4280 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4281 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4283 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4286 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4287 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4288 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4289 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4290 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4291 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4292 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4298 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4299 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4300 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4301 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4302 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4303 default (and expected) setting.
4305 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4306 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4307 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4308 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4310 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4311 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4313 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4316 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4317 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4318 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4319 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4320 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4321 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4323 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4324 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4325 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4327 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4328 part (NOT match_host).
4330 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4332 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4333 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4334 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4335 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4336 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4337 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4338 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4339 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4340 the same named file.
4342 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4343 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4346 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4347 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4348 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4349 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4352 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4353 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4354 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4356 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4358 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4360 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4362 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4363 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4365 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4366 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4367 before starting the TLS session.
4369 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4371 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4372 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4374 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4375 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4376 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4377 colon in the middle).
4383 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4384 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4385 multiple configurations are in use.
4387 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4388 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4389 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4390 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4391 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4392 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4394 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4395 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4397 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4398 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4399 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4401 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4402 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4405 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4406 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4408 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4410 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4411 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4413 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4421 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4422 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4423 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4424 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4425 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4427 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4430 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4431 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4432 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4433 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4434 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4435 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4437 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4438 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4439 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4440 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4441 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4442 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4443 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4446 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4447 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4448 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4449 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4450 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4452 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4454 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4455 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4456 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4458 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4460 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4461 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4462 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4465 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4466 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4468 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4469 Three changes have been made:
4471 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4472 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4473 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4474 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4475 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4477 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4480 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4481 the modified behaviour.
4487 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4490 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4491 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4493 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4494 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4495 try to track down a specific problem.
4497 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4498 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4499 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4501 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4504 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4505 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4506 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4507 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4508 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4509 some earlier ones do not.
4511 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4513 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4514 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4515 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4516 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4517 address literals are enabled, of course).
4519 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4521 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4522 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4523 by a command such as
4527 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4529 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4531 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4532 remained set. It is now erased.
4534 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4535 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4537 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4538 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4539 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4540 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4541 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4542 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4543 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4544 appropriate error code.
4546 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4547 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4548 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4549 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4550 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4551 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4553 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4554 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4555 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4557 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4558 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4559 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4560 terminate the header.
4562 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4563 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4564 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4566 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4567 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4568 (4.30/29). In particular:
4570 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4573 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4574 to write a maildirsize file.
4576 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4577 the transport, the new value overrides.
4579 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4582 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4583 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4584 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4587 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4588 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4589 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4592 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4593 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4594 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4596 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4597 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4600 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4601 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4602 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4604 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4606 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4608 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4610 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4611 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4614 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4615 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4616 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4617 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4618 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4619 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4620 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4623 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4624 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4625 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4626 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4627 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4630 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4631 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4632 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4633 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4634 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4635 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4636 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4637 cached value only when the same options are set.
4639 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4641 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4642 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4643 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4644 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4645 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4647 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4648 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4649 it is clearly obsolete.
4651 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4654 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4655 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4656 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4659 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4660 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4661 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4662 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4663 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4665 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4666 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4667 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4668 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4670 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4672 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4674 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4675 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4678 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4679 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4680 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4681 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4682 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4683 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4686 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4687 with the -f command-line option.
4689 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4690 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4691 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4692 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4693 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4694 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4696 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4697 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4700 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4701 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4702 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4703 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4704 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4705 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4706 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4707 buffer is too small.
4709 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4710 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4712 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4713 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4714 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4715 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4716 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4717 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4718 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4719 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4720 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4722 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4723 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4724 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4726 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4727 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4730 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4731 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4732 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4733 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4734 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4736 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4737 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4738 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4739 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4742 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4744 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4746 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4747 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4749 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4750 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4751 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4753 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4754 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4755 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4756 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4757 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4759 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4760 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4761 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4762 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4763 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4764 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4765 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4767 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4768 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4769 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4770 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4771 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4772 the test of how many are available.
4774 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4775 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4776 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4777 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4778 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4779 new message is started.
4781 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4782 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4784 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4785 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4787 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4788 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4789 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4792 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4793 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4794 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4795 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4796 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4797 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4798 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4800 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4801 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4802 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4803 interpreted as octal.
4805 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4808 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4809 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4810 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4811 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4812 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4813 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4815 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4816 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4817 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4818 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4820 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4821 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4822 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4823 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4825 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4826 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4829 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4830 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4832 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4834 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4835 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4836 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4837 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4839 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4840 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4841 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4842 supplied", which is not helpful.
4844 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4845 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4846 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4848 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4849 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4850 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4851 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4852 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4853 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4854 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4855 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4857 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4858 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4859 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4860 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4861 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4863 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4864 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4865 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4866 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4867 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4868 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4870 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4871 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4872 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4874 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4876 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4877 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4878 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4881 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4883 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4884 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4885 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4886 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4887 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4888 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4889 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4890 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4892 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4893 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4894 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4895 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4896 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4898 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4901 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4902 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4903 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4904 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4905 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4906 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4907 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4908 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4909 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4915 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4916 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4917 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4919 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4922 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4923 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4924 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4926 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4927 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4928 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4929 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4930 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4931 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4933 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4934 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4935 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4936 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4937 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4938 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4939 the Exim test suite.
4941 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4942 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4943 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4944 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4946 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4947 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4948 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4949 specify it in this variable.
4951 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4952 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4953 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4954 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4956 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4957 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4958 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4959 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4961 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4962 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4963 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4964 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4965 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4967 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4969 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4972 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4973 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4974 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4975 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4976 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4978 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4979 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4981 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4982 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4983 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4984 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4985 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4987 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4988 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4990 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4991 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4992 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4994 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4995 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4997 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4998 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5000 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5001 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5002 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5004 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5005 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5007 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5008 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5009 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5010 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5012 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5014 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5015 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5016 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5017 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5019 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5021 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5022 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5024 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5026 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5027 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5028 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5029 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5030 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5031 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5033 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5035 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5036 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5039 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5041 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5042 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5044 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5045 550 Sender verify failed
5047 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5048 the final line of the response.
5050 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5051 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5052 all other user lookups.
5054 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5057 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5058 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5059 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5060 result into an int without checking.
5062 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5063 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5064 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5066 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5067 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5068 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5069 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5071 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5074 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5075 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5077 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5078 to the empty sender.
5080 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5081 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5082 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5083 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5084 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5085 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5086 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5089 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5090 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5091 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5092 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5095 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5096 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5098 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5101 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5102 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5104 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5106 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5107 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5110 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5111 as soon as it is encountered.
5113 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5115 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5118 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5119 recognizes a tab character.
5121 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5122 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5123 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5124 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5126 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5128 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5131 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5133 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5135 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5136 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5139 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5140 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5141 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5142 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5143 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5145 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5146 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5148 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5149 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5150 list (.included file names were always shown).
5152 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5153 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5154 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5157 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5158 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5160 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5162 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5164 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5166 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5167 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5168 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5169 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5170 failures to open the logs.
5172 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5173 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5174 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5175 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5176 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5177 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5178 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5184 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5185 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5186 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5189 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5190 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5191 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5193 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5194 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5195 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5197 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5198 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5199 causing some misleading effects.
5201 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5202 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5203 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5205 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5206 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5207 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5208 queue-runner function directly.
5214 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5217 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5218 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5219 was always written to the default place.
5221 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5222 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5223 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5225 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5227 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5229 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5230 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5231 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5233 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5234 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5237 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5238 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5239 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5241 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5242 command line option is disabled.
5244 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5245 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5247 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5249 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5251 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5252 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5254 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5256 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5257 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5258 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5259 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5260 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5261 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5263 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5264 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5267 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5268 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5270 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5271 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5273 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5274 received was valid base64.
5276 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5277 name of the variable that was being set.
5279 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5281 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5282 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5283 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5284 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5285 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5286 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5288 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5290 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5291 nor realm was specified.
5293 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5294 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5295 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5296 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5298 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5299 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5300 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5302 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5303 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5304 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5306 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5307 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5308 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5309 some systems use these upper case variants.
5311 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5312 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5313 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5314 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5316 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5318 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5319 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5321 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5322 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5325 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5327 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5328 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5329 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5330 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5332 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5335 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5336 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5337 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5339 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5340 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5342 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5343 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5344 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5345 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5347 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5348 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5349 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5351 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5353 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5354 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5355 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5356 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5359 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5360 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5361 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5363 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5365 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5366 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5368 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5369 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5371 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5372 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5373 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5374 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5375 when emails are that large.
5382 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5383 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5385 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5386 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5387 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5389 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5390 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5391 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5393 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5394 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5395 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5396 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5397 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5399 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5400 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5401 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5402 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5403 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5406 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5407 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5408 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5409 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5410 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5411 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5412 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5413 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5414 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5415 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5416 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5417 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5418 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5419 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5421 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5422 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5425 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5426 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5427 error should be diagnosed.
5429 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5430 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5431 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5432 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5433 appeared instead of "NULL".
5435 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5436 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5437 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5438 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5439 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5440 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5443 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5444 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5445 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5451 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5452 or receiver verification errors.
5454 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5457 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5458 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5459 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5460 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5462 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5463 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5464 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5465 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5466 shouldn't happen again.
5468 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5469 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5470 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5472 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5473 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5475 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5477 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5478 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5480 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5481 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5484 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5485 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5486 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5488 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5489 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5490 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5491 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5493 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5494 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5495 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5496 to define what should happen).
5498 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5499 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5500 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5502 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5504 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5506 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5507 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5509 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5510 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5511 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5512 structure in all cases.
5514 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5515 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5516 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5517 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5519 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5520 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5523 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5524 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5526 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5527 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5529 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5530 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5531 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5533 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5534 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5535 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5537 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5538 the book and for uniformity.
5540 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5542 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5543 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5544 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5545 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5546 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5547 non-existent command as the problem.
5549 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5550 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5551 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5553 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5555 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5556 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5557 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5559 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5560 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5561 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5562 timestamps using strftime().
5564 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5565 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5567 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5568 transport-time rewrites.
5570 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5571 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5572 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5573 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5575 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5576 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5578 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5579 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5580 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5581 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5584 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5585 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5586 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5587 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5588 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5589 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5590 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5592 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5593 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5594 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5595 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5596 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5598 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5599 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5600 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5601 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5602 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5603 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5604 remaining text gets split now.
5606 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5607 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5608 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5609 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5611 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5612 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5613 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5614 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5617 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5618 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5619 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5620 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5621 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5622 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5623 passed through if needed.
5625 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5626 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5627 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5628 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5629 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5630 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5632 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5633 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5634 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5635 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5636 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5638 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5639 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5640 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5641 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5642 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5644 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5645 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5648 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5649 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5650 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5651 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5652 mayhem of various kinds.
5654 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5655 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5656 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5657 the right test for positive values.
5659 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5660 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5661 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5662 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5663 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5664 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5665 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5666 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5667 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5668 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5671 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5674 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5675 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5678 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5679 the existing equality matching.
5681 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5682 dealing with inode numbers.
5684 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5685 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5686 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5688 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5689 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5690 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5691 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5694 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5695 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5696 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5697 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5698 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5699 relay addresses has also been removed.
5701 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5703 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5704 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5705 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5707 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5708 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5709 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5710 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5711 processing applies to CR:
5713 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5714 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5716 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5717 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5718 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5719 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5721 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5722 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5723 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5725 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5726 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5727 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5728 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5729 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5730 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5733 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5736 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5737 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5738 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5739 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5742 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5744 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5746 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5748 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5749 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5750 not considered personal.
5752 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5754 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5756 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5758 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5759 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5760 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5761 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5762 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5763 header lines, and spool format errors.
5765 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5766 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5767 for more flexibility.
5769 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5770 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5771 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5773 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5776 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5777 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5778 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5779 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5780 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5781 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5782 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5783 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5784 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5786 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5787 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5788 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5789 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5790 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5791 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5792 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5794 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5795 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5796 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5798 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5799 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5800 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5801 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5802 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5803 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5804 instead of killing the process with assert().
5806 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5807 than Unicode encoding.
5809 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5810 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5811 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5812 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5814 77. Added process_log_path.
5816 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5817 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5819 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5820 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5822 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5823 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5824 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5826 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5827 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5828 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5829 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5830 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5833 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5834 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5837 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5838 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5839 they will be used during message reception.
5845 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.