1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
9 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
12 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
15 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
19 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
21 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
27 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
34 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
36 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
38 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
41 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
45 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
47 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
49 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
50 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
52 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
54 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
56 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
58 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
59 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
61 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
63 PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
65 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
66 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
68 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
69 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
72 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
74 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
76 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
77 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
79 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
82 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
83 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
85 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
86 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
88 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
91 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
94 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
97 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
99 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
100 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
101 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
102 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
104 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
106 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
107 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
108 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
109 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
112 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
113 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
114 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
116 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
117 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
118 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
119 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
121 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
122 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
123 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
124 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
125 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
126 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
127 delivery, as in LMTP.
129 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
130 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
132 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
134 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
138 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
139 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
140 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
141 username as equal to the username.
143 This change corrects that bug.
145 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
146 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
147 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
149 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
151 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
152 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
153 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
154 NULL dereference and crash.
156 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
158 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
159 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
160 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
162 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
164 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
165 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
166 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
167 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
168 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
169 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
170 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
171 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
172 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
173 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
174 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
176 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
177 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
179 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
180 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
183 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
184 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
185 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
186 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
187 an empty string is now equivalent.
189 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
190 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
191 not performing validation itself.
193 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
194 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
196 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
199 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
200 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
201 other false fix of the same issue.
202 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
205 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
206 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
208 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
209 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
210 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
212 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
213 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
214 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
216 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
222 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
224 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
230 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
231 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
232 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
234 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
236 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
239 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
241 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
243 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
245 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
246 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
248 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
249 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
251 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
252 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
254 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
255 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
256 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
258 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
260 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
261 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
263 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
265 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
267 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
268 non-compliant senders.
269 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
271 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
272 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
273 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
275 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
276 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
277 in spool file corruption.
279 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
280 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
281 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
284 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
285 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
286 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
288 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
289 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
291 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
293 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
295 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
297 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
298 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
299 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
301 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
302 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
303 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
304 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
306 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
307 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
309 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
310 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
311 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
312 resolver implementation change.
314 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
315 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
317 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
319 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
321 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
322 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
324 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
325 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
327 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
328 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
330 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
331 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
332 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
333 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
334 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
336 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
338 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
339 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
340 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
342 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
344 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
345 read-only, out of scope).
346 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
348 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
349 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
350 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
351 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
353 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
355 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
356 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
357 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
358 real issues in debug logging.
360 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
361 assignment on my part. Fixed.
363 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
364 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
365 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
367 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
368 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
369 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
372 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
373 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
375 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
376 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
377 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
378 needs to override this, it can.
380 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
381 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
382 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
384 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
385 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
386 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
387 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
389 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
395 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
396 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
398 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
400 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
403 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
404 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
406 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
407 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
408 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
410 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
411 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
412 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
413 not safe for signals.
415 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
416 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
417 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
418 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
421 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
423 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
424 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
425 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
426 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
427 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
429 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
430 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
431 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
432 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
433 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
434 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
436 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
437 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
438 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
439 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
441 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
442 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
443 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
444 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
446 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
447 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
448 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
449 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
450 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
451 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
452 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
453 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
454 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
456 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
457 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
458 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
459 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
461 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
462 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
463 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
464 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
465 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
466 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
467 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
468 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
469 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
470 details in the main documentation.
472 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
474 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
476 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
477 repository when doing development or release builds.
479 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
480 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
482 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
483 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
486 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
488 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
489 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
491 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
492 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
494 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
495 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
497 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
498 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
500 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
501 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
503 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
505 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
508 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
509 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
510 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
512 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
514 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
516 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
517 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
523 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
525 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
526 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
528 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
530 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
532 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
535 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
536 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
538 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
539 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
541 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
544 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
547 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
548 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
550 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
551 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
552 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
553 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
555 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
556 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
562 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
565 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
566 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
567 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
569 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
570 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
572 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
573 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
574 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
576 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
577 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
579 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
580 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
582 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
583 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
585 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
586 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
588 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
589 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
591 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
594 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
595 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
597 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
598 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
600 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
601 SQL string expansion failure details.
602 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
604 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
605 Patch from Simon Arlott.
607 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
608 extern declarations in function scope.
609 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
611 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
612 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
613 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
616 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
617 Patch from Mark Zealey.
619 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
620 Patch from Mark Zealey.
622 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
623 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
625 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
626 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
628 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
629 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
632 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
634 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
636 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
637 Patch by Simon Arlott
639 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
640 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
646 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
647 consequences so log it to the panic log.
649 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
650 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
652 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
654 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
655 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
656 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
658 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
659 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
660 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
662 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
663 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
664 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
665 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
667 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
668 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
669 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
670 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
672 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
673 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
674 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
677 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
680 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
681 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
682 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
683 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
684 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
690 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
691 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
692 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
694 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
695 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
697 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
699 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
701 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
703 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
705 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
707 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
708 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
709 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
710 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
712 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
713 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
714 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
715 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
716 more caution in buffer sizes.
718 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
720 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
722 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
724 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
726 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
728 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
730 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
732 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
733 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
734 ignore trailing whitespace.
736 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
738 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
741 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
742 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
744 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
745 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
746 Notification from John Horne.
748 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
751 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
752 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
755 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
758 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
759 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
760 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
762 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
763 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
764 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
767 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
768 option (effectively making it always true).
770 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
771 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
773 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
774 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
776 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
777 run-time user, instead of root.
779 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
780 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
782 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
783 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
786 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
787 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
788 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
790 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
792 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
798 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
799 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
802 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
803 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
806 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
807 Patch from Alain Williams
809 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
811 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
812 Patch from Andreas Metzler
814 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
815 Patch from Kirill Miazine
817 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
819 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
821 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
822 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
824 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
826 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
828 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
829 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
830 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
832 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
833 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
835 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
836 Patch by Simon Arlott
838 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
839 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
845 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
847 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
849 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
851 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
853 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
859 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
860 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
862 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
863 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
866 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
867 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
868 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
870 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
871 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
873 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
874 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
875 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
876 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
878 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
879 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
880 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
882 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
884 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
886 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
887 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
889 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
891 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
892 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
893 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
894 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
896 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
897 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
899 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
901 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
903 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
904 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
906 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
907 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
909 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
910 that they are available at delivery time.
912 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
914 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
915 incoming_port log selectors.
917 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
918 setting expands to an empty string.
920 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
921 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
923 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
924 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
926 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
927 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
929 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
930 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
932 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
933 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
935 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
936 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
938 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
940 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
941 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
943 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
944 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
946 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
948 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
949 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
951 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
953 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
955 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
958 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
959 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
961 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
962 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
964 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
965 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
967 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
968 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
970 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
971 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
973 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
974 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
976 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
977 plus update to original patch.
979 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
981 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
982 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
984 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
986 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
988 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
990 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
992 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
993 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
995 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
996 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
998 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
999 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
1001 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1002 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1004 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1006 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1008 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1010 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1016 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1017 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1018 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1020 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1021 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1022 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1023 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1024 build errors in sieve.c.
1026 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1027 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1028 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1030 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1032 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1034 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1036 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1042 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1044 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1045 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1046 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1047 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1048 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1049 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1050 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1051 for iplsearch lookups.
1053 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1054 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1055 previously such lookups could never work.
1057 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1058 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1059 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1061 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1064 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1065 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1066 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1067 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1068 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1069 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1071 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1072 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1074 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1075 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1076 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1077 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1078 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1079 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1081 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1084 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1086 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1087 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1090 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1091 by clients under certain conditions.
1093 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1094 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1096 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1098 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1099 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1101 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1103 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1105 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1107 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1108 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1110 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1112 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1113 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1115 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1117 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1119 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1120 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1121 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1122 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1124 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1125 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1126 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1128 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1129 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1131 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1133 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1135 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1137 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1138 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1139 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1145 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1146 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1149 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1150 issue a MAIL command.
1152 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1154 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1156 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1157 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1158 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1159 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1160 item. This has been fixed.
1162 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1163 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1165 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1166 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1168 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1169 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1170 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1172 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1174 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1175 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1176 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1177 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1178 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1180 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1181 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1182 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1184 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1185 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1186 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1187 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1189 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1191 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1193 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1194 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1195 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1196 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1197 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1199 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1201 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1202 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1203 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1206 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1208 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1210 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1212 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1214 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1216 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1217 no_callout_flush is set.
1219 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1220 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1221 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1224 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1226 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1227 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1228 other ACL rejections are.
1230 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1231 with slight modification.
1233 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1234 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1236 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1237 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1240 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1241 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1243 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1245 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1246 expansion side effects.
1248 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1249 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1250 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1253 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1254 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1255 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1257 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1258 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1259 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1260 were accidentally chopped off.
1262 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1263 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1264 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1265 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1266 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1267 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1268 pipelining has not been advertised.
1270 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1272 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1273 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1274 This has been fixed.
1276 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1277 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1278 reported on Solaris.
1280 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1281 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1282 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1283 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1284 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1285 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1286 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1288 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1291 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1293 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1295 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1296 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1297 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1298 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1299 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1300 criteria to be more general.
1302 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1303 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1304 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1305 host_all_ignored option.
1307 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1308 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1309 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1310 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1311 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1312 is what is supposed to happen).
1314 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1315 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1316 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1317 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1318 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1321 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1322 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1323 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1324 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1325 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1326 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1329 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1331 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1332 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1334 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1335 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1337 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1339 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1341 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1342 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1343 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1344 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1345 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1346 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1347 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1348 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1349 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1350 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1351 least in a lot of common cases.
1353 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1354 advertised in response to EHLO.
1360 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1361 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1363 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1364 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1366 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1367 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1368 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1370 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1371 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1372 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1373 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1374 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1380 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1381 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1384 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1385 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1386 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1388 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1389 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1390 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1391 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1392 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1393 rather than extend the field.
1399 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1400 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1401 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1402 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1405 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1406 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1407 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1409 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1410 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1411 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1413 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1414 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1415 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1418 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1419 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1420 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1421 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1422 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1423 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1424 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1425 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1426 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1427 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1428 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1430 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1433 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1434 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1435 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1436 ignores EPIPE as well.
1438 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1439 (quoted-printable decoding).
1441 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1442 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1444 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1446 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1448 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1450 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1451 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1453 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1456 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1457 miscellaneous code fixes
1459 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1462 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1463 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1464 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1465 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1466 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1467 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1468 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1469 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1471 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1472 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1473 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1474 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1476 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1477 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1478 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1479 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1480 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1481 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1482 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1483 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1484 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1486 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1489 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1490 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1491 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1492 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1493 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1494 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1495 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1496 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1498 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1499 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1502 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1503 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1504 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1505 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1506 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1507 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1508 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1509 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1510 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1511 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1512 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1513 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1514 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1516 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1517 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1518 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1519 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1520 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1521 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1522 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1524 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1525 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1526 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1527 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1528 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1529 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1530 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1531 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1532 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1533 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1535 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1536 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1537 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1538 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1539 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1541 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1542 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1543 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1544 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1545 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1546 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1547 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1549 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1550 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1551 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1552 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1553 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1554 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1557 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1558 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1559 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1562 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1563 if any retry times were supplied.
1565 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1566 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1567 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1569 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1571 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1573 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1574 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1575 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1576 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1577 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1578 before) are ignored.
1580 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1581 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1583 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1584 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1585 committing the later change.]
1587 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1588 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1589 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1590 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1591 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1592 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1593 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1594 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1595 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1597 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1598 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1599 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1600 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1601 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1602 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1603 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1604 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1605 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1607 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1608 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1609 hammering the server.
1611 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1612 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1614 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1616 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1617 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1618 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1620 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1621 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1622 one case where this was not true.
1624 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1625 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1626 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1627 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1630 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1631 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1632 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1633 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1634 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1635 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1636 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1637 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1638 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1641 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1642 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1643 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1644 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1646 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1647 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1649 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1650 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1651 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1653 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1655 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1657 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1659 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1660 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1661 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1662 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1664 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1665 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1667 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1668 be meaningful with "accept".
1670 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1671 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1673 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1674 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1675 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1677 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1678 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1679 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1680 there is data to show.
1681 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1683 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1684 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1685 as well as the number of messages.
1687 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1688 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1689 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1691 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1692 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1693 have a flag are now skipped.
1695 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1696 Added the -emptyok flag.
1698 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1699 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1701 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1702 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1703 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1705 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1708 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1709 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1711 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1713 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1714 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1716 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1718 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1719 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1720 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1721 contravention of the specifications.
1723 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1724 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1725 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1727 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1728 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1729 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1731 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1733 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1734 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1735 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1736 some point in the past.
1738 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1739 transport during callout processing was broken.
1741 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1742 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1744 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1745 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1747 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1748 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1750 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1756 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1757 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1759 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1760 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1761 there is data to show.
1762 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1764 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1765 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1767 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1768 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1770 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1771 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1773 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1774 submissions from trusted users.
1776 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1777 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1779 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1780 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1781 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1782 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1783 there is now a framework to start from.
1785 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1786 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1787 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1789 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1791 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1793 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1795 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1796 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1797 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1799 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1802 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1803 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1804 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1806 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1807 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1808 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1811 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1812 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1813 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1814 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1815 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1817 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1818 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1820 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1822 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1823 operations in malware.c.
1825 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1828 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1829 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1830 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1833 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1834 statements to "add_header".
1836 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1837 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1839 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1840 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1843 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1847 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1848 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1849 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1852 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1853 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1855 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1856 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1858 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1859 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1860 any possible encoding problems.
1862 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1863 but not after initializing Perl.
1865 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1866 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1867 apparently, which is not desirable.
1869 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1872 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1875 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1877 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1878 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1879 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1880 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1882 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1883 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1884 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1886 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1887 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1888 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1891 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1892 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1893 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1894 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1895 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1901 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1902 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1904 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1907 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1908 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1909 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1910 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1911 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1912 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1913 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1914 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1917 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1919 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1920 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1921 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1923 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1924 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1925 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1928 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1929 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1931 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1932 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1933 option (which defaults to 0600).
1935 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1937 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1938 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1939 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1940 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1941 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1942 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1943 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1945 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1951 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1952 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1953 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1954 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1955 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1956 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1959 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1960 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1962 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1964 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1965 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1966 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1967 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1968 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1971 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1972 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1974 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1975 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1976 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1977 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1978 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1980 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1981 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1982 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1983 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1985 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1986 be the same on different OS.
1988 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1991 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1992 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1994 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1997 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1998 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1999 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2000 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2001 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2002 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2005 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2006 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2007 when Exim was called.
2009 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2010 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2012 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2013 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2014 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2015 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2017 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2018 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2019 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2020 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2023 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2024 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2025 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2027 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2028 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2029 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2031 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2034 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2035 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2036 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2037 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2038 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2039 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2040 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2041 values from the SRV records were lost.
2043 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2044 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2045 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2047 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2048 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2049 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2051 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2052 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2053 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2054 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2055 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2056 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2057 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2058 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2059 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2060 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2062 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2063 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2064 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2066 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2067 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2069 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2070 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2071 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2072 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2075 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2076 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2077 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2079 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2080 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2081 PH/23 above applies.
2083 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2084 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2085 (for which there is an explicit test).
2087 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2089 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2090 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2091 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2092 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2093 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2095 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2096 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2097 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2098 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2100 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2101 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2102 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2104 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2106 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2108 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2109 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2110 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2112 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2113 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2114 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2115 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2116 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2118 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2119 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2120 the message gets confusing).
2122 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2123 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2124 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2125 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2127 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2128 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2129 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2130 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2133 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2134 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2135 the different processes.
2137 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2139 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2141 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2142 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2144 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2145 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2147 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2148 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2149 messages matching specified criteria.
2151 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2153 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2154 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2156 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2157 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2158 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2159 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2160 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2161 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2162 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2163 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2164 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2165 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2167 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2168 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2169 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2171 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2173 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2174 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2175 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2176 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2177 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2178 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2179 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2182 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2183 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2185 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2187 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2189 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2191 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2192 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2193 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2194 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2195 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2196 size of the count of files.
2198 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2200 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2203 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2204 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2205 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2206 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2208 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2209 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2210 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2212 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2213 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2214 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2215 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2216 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2218 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2219 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2221 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2222 will now be deprecated.
2224 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2226 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2227 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2228 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2230 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2231 with very large, slow to parse queues
2233 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2235 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2237 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2238 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2239 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2242 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2243 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2244 Sieve code now uses this.
2246 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2247 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2249 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2250 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2252 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2254 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2255 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2256 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2257 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2258 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2260 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2261 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2262 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2263 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2265 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2267 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2269 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2270 is preferred over IPv4.
2272 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2273 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2274 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2275 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2276 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2277 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2278 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2280 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2281 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2282 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2284 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2286 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2287 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2288 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2289 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2290 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2291 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2292 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2293 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2294 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2295 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2296 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2298 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2299 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2300 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2306 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2308 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2309 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2311 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2312 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2313 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2315 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2317 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2320 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2323 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2324 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2325 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2328 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2329 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2331 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2332 inside the third argument.
2334 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2335 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2338 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2339 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2341 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2342 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2344 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2346 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2347 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2350 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2352 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2353 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2354 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2355 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2356 identical. For example:
2358 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2360 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2361 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2362 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2364 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2365 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2366 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2367 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2369 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2370 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2371 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2374 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2376 o fixes some comments
2377 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2378 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2379 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2380 and documents the missing references header update
2384 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2385 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2388 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2389 Electronic Mail") by including:
2391 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2393 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2394 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2395 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2396 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2397 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2399 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2401 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2403 The auto-replied keyword:
2405 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2406 message by an automatic process,
2408 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2410 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2411 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2413 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2414 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2417 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2418 to the default Received: header definition.
2420 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2422 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2423 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2424 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2426 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2427 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2428 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2430 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2431 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2432 and treats the condition as false.
2434 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2436 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2437 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2438 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2439 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2440 not changing the active code.
2442 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2443 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2445 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2446 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2448 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2451 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2452 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2453 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2454 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2455 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2456 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2457 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2458 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2459 the text comparison.
2461 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2462 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2463 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2464 The same fix has been applied.
2470 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2471 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2474 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2475 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2477 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2479 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2480 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2481 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2482 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2483 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2485 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2486 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2487 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2488 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2491 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2499 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2500 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2502 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2504 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2506 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2507 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2508 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2510 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2511 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2512 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2514 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2515 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2518 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2519 ${stat: expansion item.
2521 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2522 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2524 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2525 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2528 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2530 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2533 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2534 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2536 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2538 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2539 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2540 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2541 the end of the subprocess.
2543 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2544 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2545 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2546 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2547 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2549 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2551 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2553 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2554 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2556 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2558 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2560 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2561 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2564 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2566 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2567 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2568 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2570 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2571 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2573 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2574 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2576 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2577 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2579 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2580 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2582 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2583 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2584 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2585 contributed by a Radius user.
2587 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2588 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2590 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2591 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2593 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2596 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2597 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2600 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2601 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2602 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2603 header lines when this was not necessary.
2605 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2607 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2608 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2609 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2612 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2615 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2616 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2617 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2618 return code was incorrect.
2620 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2622 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2624 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2626 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2628 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2629 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2630 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2631 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2632 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2635 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2637 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2638 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2639 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2640 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2641 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2642 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2643 which is clearly wrong.
2645 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2647 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2648 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2649 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2652 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2653 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2655 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2657 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2658 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2660 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2661 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2663 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2664 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2666 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2667 recipients, not senders.
2669 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2670 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2672 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2674 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2676 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2677 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2678 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2679 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2681 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2683 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2684 clock is set back in time.
2686 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2687 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2689 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2690 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2692 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2693 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2696 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2697 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2700 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2703 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2705 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2706 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2707 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2709 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2710 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2711 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2712 helo verification defer as a failure.
2714 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2715 actual error message.
2721 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2723 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2724 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2725 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2726 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2728 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2730 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2731 can still be requested.
2733 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2734 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2735 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2736 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2738 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2739 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2740 circumstances, but probably never did.
2742 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2743 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2744 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2747 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2749 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2750 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2752 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2754 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2756 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2757 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2758 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2759 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2760 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2761 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2763 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2764 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2765 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2766 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2767 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2768 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2770 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2771 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2773 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2774 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2776 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2777 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2779 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2781 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2783 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2785 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2787 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2789 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2791 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2793 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2794 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2795 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2797 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2798 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2799 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2800 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2802 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2803 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2804 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2806 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2807 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2808 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2809 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2811 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2812 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2815 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2816 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2817 should work with maildirs and everything.
2819 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2820 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2822 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2825 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2826 function for BDB 4.3.
2828 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2830 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2831 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2834 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2835 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2836 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2837 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2838 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2839 formatting function string_vformat().
2841 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2842 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2843 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2844 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2845 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2846 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2847 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2848 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2850 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2851 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2854 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2855 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2857 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2858 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2859 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2860 test. It is now used for both.
2862 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2863 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2864 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2865 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2866 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2867 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2869 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2870 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2871 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2874 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2875 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2876 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2878 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2879 experimental DomainKeys support:
2881 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2882 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2883 the control was given.
2885 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2887 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2889 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2891 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2892 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2893 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2896 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2897 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2898 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2899 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2900 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2901 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2904 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2905 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2906 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2907 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2908 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2909 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2911 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2912 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2913 do -d+all out of habit.
2915 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2916 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2919 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2920 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2921 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2922 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2923 record types that Exim uses.
2925 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2926 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2927 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2928 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2929 non-existent file that was broken.
2931 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2932 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2934 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2935 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2936 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2938 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2940 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2941 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2942 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2943 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2944 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2947 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2948 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2949 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2950 at a slight CPU cost.
2952 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2953 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2955 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2958 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2960 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2961 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2967 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2968 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2970 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2972 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2974 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2975 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2977 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2978 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2979 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2980 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2981 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2982 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2985 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2986 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2987 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2988 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2991 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2992 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2993 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2994 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2995 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2996 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2997 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
3000 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3001 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3003 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3004 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3005 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3006 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3007 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3008 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3010 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3011 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3012 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3013 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3015 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3018 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3019 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3021 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3022 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3023 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3024 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3027 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3029 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3030 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3032 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3033 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3034 to what was transported.)
3036 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3038 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3039 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3040 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3041 spamd_address settings.
3043 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3044 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3045 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3046 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3047 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3049 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3051 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3052 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3053 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3054 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3055 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3057 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3058 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3060 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3061 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3062 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3063 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3064 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3065 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3066 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3069 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3070 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3071 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3072 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3073 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3074 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3075 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3078 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3080 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3081 driver and ACL definitions.
3083 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3084 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3086 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3087 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3088 understands it better than I do:
3090 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3091 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3093 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3094 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3095 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3096 => three warnings about OTP not working
3097 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3099 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3100 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3101 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3102 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3104 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3105 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3107 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3108 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3109 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3111 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3112 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3115 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3116 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3119 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3120 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3121 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3123 warn !verify = sender
3124 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3126 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3127 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3129 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3131 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3132 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3134 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3135 nomenclature these days.)
3137 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3138 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3140 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3141 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3142 . First host does not offer TLS;
3143 . First host accepts first address;
3144 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3145 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3146 . Second host accepts second address.
3147 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3148 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3151 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3152 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3153 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3154 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3155 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3157 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3158 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3160 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3161 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3163 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3164 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3165 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3167 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3168 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3171 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3173 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3174 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3175 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3176 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3177 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3178 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3179 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3181 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3182 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3183 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3184 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3185 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3187 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3188 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3191 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3192 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3193 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3194 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3195 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3196 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3198 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3200 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3201 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3202 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3203 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3204 printable escape sequences.
3206 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3207 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3210 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3211 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3214 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3215 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3216 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3217 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3218 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3220 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3221 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3222 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3224 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3226 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3227 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3230 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3231 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3232 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3233 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3234 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3235 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3236 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3237 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3238 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3241 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3242 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3243 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3244 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3248 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3249 ----------------------------------------
3251 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3252 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3253 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3254 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3255 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3256 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3259 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3260 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3261 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3262 historical information.
3268 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3270 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3271 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3273 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3274 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3277 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3278 filter fails to execute.
3280 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3281 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3282 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3283 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3284 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3286 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3288 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3289 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3290 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3291 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3293 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3294 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3295 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3296 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3297 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3299 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3301 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3303 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3304 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3305 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3306 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3308 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3309 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3310 sender verification.
3312 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3313 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3315 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3317 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3320 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3321 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3323 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3324 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3326 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3327 information about exactly what failed.
3329 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3331 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3332 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3333 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3335 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3336 It is now set to "smtps".
3338 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3339 ignore_target_hosts.
3341 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3342 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3343 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3344 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3347 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3348 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3349 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3351 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3352 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3353 wake it up if nothing else does.
3355 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3356 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3357 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3360 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3361 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3363 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3365 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3366 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3367 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3368 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3369 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3370 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3371 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3372 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3374 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3375 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3376 than one IP address.
3378 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3379 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3380 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3381 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3383 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3384 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3385 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3386 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3387 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3390 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3391 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3392 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3393 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3395 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3396 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3399 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3400 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3401 $sender_host_address.
3403 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3404 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3405 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3406 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3407 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3410 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3412 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3413 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3415 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3416 just the host names, not the priorities.
3418 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3419 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3420 controlled by a keyword.
3422 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3423 multiple records are returned.
3425 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3426 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3429 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3431 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3432 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3434 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3435 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3436 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3438 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3440 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3442 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3444 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3445 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3446 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3447 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3448 because the tests only now provoked it.
3450 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3451 (this can affect the format of dates).
3453 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3454 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3455 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3456 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3458 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3460 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3461 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3462 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3463 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3465 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3466 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3467 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3469 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3472 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3473 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3474 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3475 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3476 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3477 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3480 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3481 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3482 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3485 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3486 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3487 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3489 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3490 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3491 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3492 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3493 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3494 so I produce this patch..."
3496 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3497 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3500 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3501 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3502 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3503 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3506 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3508 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3509 long debug lines gets shown.
3511 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3512 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3514 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3516 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3517 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3518 of $primary_hostname.
3520 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3521 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3522 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3523 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3524 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3525 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3526 by change 4.50/55 above.
3528 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3529 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3530 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3531 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3532 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3533 running as the user.
3536 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3537 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3538 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3541 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3542 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3544 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3545 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3546 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3547 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3548 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3550 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3551 This has been fixed.
3553 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3554 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3555 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3556 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3559 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3561 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3562 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3563 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3564 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3566 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3567 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3569 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3570 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3571 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3573 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3574 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3575 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3578 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3579 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3580 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3582 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3583 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3584 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3585 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3587 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3588 during host lookups.
3590 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3591 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3593 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3595 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3596 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3597 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3598 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3599 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3602 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3603 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3605 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3606 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3607 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3609 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3611 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3612 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3613 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3614 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3615 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3616 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3619 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3620 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3621 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3622 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3623 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3625 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3628 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3630 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3631 "vacation" handling.
3633 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3634 OS variants using glibc.
3636 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3639 ----------------------------------------------------
3640 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3641 ----------------------------------------------------
3647 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3648 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3651 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3652 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3655 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3656 filter fails to execute.
3658 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3659 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3660 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3661 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3662 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3664 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3665 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3666 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3667 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3669 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3670 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3671 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3672 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3673 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3675 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3677 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3678 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3679 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3680 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3682 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3683 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3684 sender verification.
3686 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3687 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3689 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3690 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3692 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3693 ignore_target_hosts.
3695 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3696 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3697 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3698 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3701 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3702 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3703 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3705 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3706 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3707 wake it up if nothing else does.
3709 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3710 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3711 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3714 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3715 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3717 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3719 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3720 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3723 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3724 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3727 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3728 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3729 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3730 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3731 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3734 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3735 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3738 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3739 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3740 $sender_host_address.
3742 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3744 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3745 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3746 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3748 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3751 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3752 (this can affect the format of dates).
3754 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3755 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3756 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3757 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3759 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3760 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3761 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3763 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3764 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3765 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3766 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3768 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3769 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3770 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3772 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3775 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3776 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3777 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3778 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3779 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3780 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3783 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3784 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3785 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3786 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3789 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3790 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3791 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3792 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3793 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3794 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3795 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3797 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3798 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3799 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3800 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3801 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3802 running as the user.
3805 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3806 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3807 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3810 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3811 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3812 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3813 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3814 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3816 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3817 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3818 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3819 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3822 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3823 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3824 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3825 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3826 because the tests only now provoked it.
3832 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3833 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3834 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3835 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3836 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3837 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3838 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3840 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3841 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3844 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3846 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3848 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3849 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3852 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3853 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3854 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3855 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3856 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3858 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3859 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3861 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3863 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3865 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3868 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3869 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3871 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3872 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3873 affecting debugging statements).
3875 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3877 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3878 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3879 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3880 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3881 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3882 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3883 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3884 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3885 after the received time, and all would be well.
3887 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3888 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3889 condition in an expansion string.
3891 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3893 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3894 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3895 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3896 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3897 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3898 job under whatever limits there are.
3900 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3902 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3905 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3906 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3907 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3908 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3911 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3912 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3913 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3914 binary data in such strings.
3916 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3918 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3919 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3920 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3921 failure, which is pointless.
3923 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3925 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3927 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3928 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3929 Sender: header lines.
3931 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3932 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3933 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3935 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3936 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3937 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3938 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3939 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3942 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3943 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3944 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3945 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3946 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3948 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3949 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3950 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3953 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3954 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3956 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3957 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3959 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3961 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3963 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3965 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3968 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3970 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3972 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3973 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3974 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3975 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3977 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3978 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3984 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3985 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3986 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3988 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3989 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3990 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3991 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3992 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3993 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3995 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3996 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3997 verification failure".
3999 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4000 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4001 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4002 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4004 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4005 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4006 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4007 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4008 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4009 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4010 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4011 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4012 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4013 treated as a timeout.
4015 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4016 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4017 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4018 not set for Exim filters).
4020 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4021 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4022 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4024 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4026 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4027 try to make them clearer.
4029 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4030 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4032 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4034 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4036 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4037 only the Cygwin environment.
4039 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4040 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4041 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4042 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4043 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4045 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4046 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4047 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4048 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4049 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4050 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4051 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4053 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4054 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4056 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4058 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4059 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4060 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4062 To: susanne@some.where
4064 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4065 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4066 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4067 of addresses in From: header lines).
4069 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4070 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4071 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4073 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4074 treated as non-personal.
4076 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4077 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4079 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4081 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4083 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4084 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4085 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4087 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4088 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4090 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4091 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4092 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4093 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4094 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4095 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4097 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4098 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4099 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4100 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4101 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4102 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4103 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4104 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4106 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4108 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4109 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4111 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4112 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4113 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4115 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4116 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4118 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4119 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4120 rather than long int.
4122 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4124 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4130 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4131 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4132 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4133 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4134 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4135 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4141 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4142 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4144 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4145 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4146 socklen_t is defined.
4148 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4151 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4154 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4155 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4156 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4157 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4158 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4160 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4161 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4162 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4163 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4165 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4166 of flapping under certain conditions.
4168 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4169 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4170 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4172 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4174 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4176 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4177 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4178 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4179 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4181 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4182 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4183 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4184 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4185 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4186 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4187 preserved with the message after it was received.
4189 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4190 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4191 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4192 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4193 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4194 test suite worked just fine.
4196 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4197 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4198 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4200 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4201 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4204 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4205 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4206 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4207 does not fully solve it.
4209 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4210 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4211 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4212 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4213 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4215 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4216 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4217 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4219 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4220 string, for example:
4222 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4224 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4225 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4226 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4227 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4228 the routers could not see them.
4230 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4231 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4233 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4234 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4237 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4238 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4239 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4240 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4241 that needed quoting.
4243 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4244 was not being matched caselessly.
4246 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4249 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4250 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4251 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4252 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4253 when use_sender is false.
4255 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4257 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4259 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4261 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4262 the configuration file.
4264 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4265 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4267 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4269 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4270 bytes in the message body.
4272 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4273 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4276 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4278 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4280 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4281 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4282 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4283 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4290 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4291 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4293 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4294 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4295 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4296 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4297 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4299 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4300 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4302 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4303 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4304 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4306 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4307 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4308 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4310 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4313 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4314 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4315 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4316 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4317 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4318 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4319 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4325 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4326 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4327 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4328 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4329 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4330 default (and expected) setting.
4332 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4333 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4334 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4335 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4337 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4338 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4340 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4343 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4344 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4345 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4346 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4347 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4348 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4350 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4351 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4352 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4354 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4355 part (NOT match_host).
4357 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4359 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4360 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4361 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4362 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4363 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4364 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4365 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4366 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4367 the same named file.
4369 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4370 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4373 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4374 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4375 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4376 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4379 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4380 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4381 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4383 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4385 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4387 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4389 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4390 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4392 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4393 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4394 before starting the TLS session.
4396 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4398 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4399 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4401 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4402 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4403 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4404 colon in the middle).
4410 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4411 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4412 multiple configurations are in use.
4414 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4415 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4416 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4417 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4418 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4419 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4421 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4422 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4424 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4425 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4426 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4428 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4429 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4432 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4433 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4435 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4437 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4438 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4440 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4448 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4449 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4450 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4451 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4452 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4454 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4457 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4458 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4459 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4460 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4461 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4462 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4464 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4465 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4466 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4467 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4468 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4469 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4470 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4473 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4474 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4475 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4476 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4477 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4479 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4481 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4482 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4483 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4485 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4487 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4488 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4489 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4492 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4493 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4495 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4496 Three changes have been made:
4498 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4499 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4500 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4501 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4502 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4504 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4507 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4508 the modified behaviour.
4514 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4517 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4518 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4520 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4521 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4522 try to track down a specific problem.
4524 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4525 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4526 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4528 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4531 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4532 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4533 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4534 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4535 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4536 some earlier ones do not.
4538 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4540 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4541 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4542 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4543 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4544 address literals are enabled, of course).
4546 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4548 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4549 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4550 by a command such as
4554 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4556 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4558 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4559 remained set. It is now erased.
4561 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4562 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4564 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4565 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4566 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4567 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4568 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4569 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4570 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4571 appropriate error code.
4573 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4574 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4575 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4576 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4577 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4578 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4580 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4581 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4582 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4584 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4585 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4586 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4587 terminate the header.
4589 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4590 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4591 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4593 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4594 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4595 (4.30/29). In particular:
4597 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4600 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4601 to write a maildirsize file.
4603 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4604 the transport, the new value overrides.
4606 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4609 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4610 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4611 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4614 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4615 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4616 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4619 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4620 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4621 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4623 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4624 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4627 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4628 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4629 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4631 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4633 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4635 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4637 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4638 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4641 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4642 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4643 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4644 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4645 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4646 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4647 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4650 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4651 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4652 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4653 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4654 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4657 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4658 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4659 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4660 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4661 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4662 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4663 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4664 cached value only when the same options are set.
4666 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4668 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4669 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4670 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4671 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4672 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4674 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4675 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4676 it is clearly obsolete.
4678 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4681 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4682 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4683 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4686 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4687 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4688 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4689 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4690 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4692 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4693 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4694 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4695 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4697 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4699 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4701 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4702 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4705 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4706 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4707 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4708 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4709 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4710 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4713 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4714 with the -f command-line option.
4716 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4717 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4718 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4719 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4720 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4721 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4723 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4724 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4727 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4728 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4729 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4730 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4731 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4732 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4733 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4734 buffer is too small.
4736 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4737 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4739 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4740 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4741 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4742 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4743 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4744 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4745 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4746 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4747 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4749 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4750 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4751 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4753 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4754 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4757 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4758 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4759 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4760 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4761 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4763 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4764 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4765 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4766 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4769 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4771 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4773 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4774 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4776 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4777 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4778 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4780 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4781 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4782 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4783 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4784 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4786 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4787 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4788 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4789 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4790 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4791 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4792 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4794 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4795 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4796 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4797 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4798 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4799 the test of how many are available.
4801 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4802 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4803 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4804 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4805 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4806 new message is started.
4808 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4809 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4811 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4812 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4814 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4815 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4816 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4819 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4820 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4821 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4822 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4823 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4824 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4825 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4827 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4828 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4829 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4830 interpreted as octal.
4832 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4835 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4836 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4837 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4838 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4839 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4840 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4842 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4843 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4844 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4845 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4847 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4848 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4849 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4850 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4852 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4853 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4856 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4857 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4859 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4861 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4862 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4863 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4864 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4866 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4867 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4868 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4869 supplied", which is not helpful.
4871 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4872 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4873 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4875 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4876 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4877 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4878 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4879 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4880 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4881 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4882 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4884 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4885 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4886 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4887 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4888 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4890 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4891 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4892 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4893 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4894 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4895 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4897 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4898 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4899 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4901 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4903 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4904 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4905 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4908 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4910 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4911 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4912 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4913 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4914 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4915 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4916 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4917 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4919 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4920 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4921 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4922 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4923 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4925 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4928 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4929 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4930 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4931 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4932 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4933 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4934 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4935 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4936 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4942 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4943 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4944 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4946 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4949 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4950 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4951 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4953 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4954 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4955 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4956 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4957 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4958 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4960 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4961 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4962 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4963 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4964 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4965 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4966 the Exim test suite.
4968 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4969 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4970 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4971 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4973 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4974 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4975 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4976 specify it in this variable.
4978 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4979 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4980 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4981 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4983 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4984 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4985 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4986 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4988 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4989 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4990 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4991 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4992 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4994 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4996 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4999 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5000 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5001 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5002 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5003 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5005 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5006 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5008 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5009 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5010 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5011 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5012 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5014 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5015 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5017 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5018 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5019 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5021 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5022 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5024 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5025 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5027 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5028 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5029 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5031 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5032 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5034 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5035 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5036 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5037 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5039 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5041 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5042 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5043 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5044 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5046 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5048 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5049 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5051 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5053 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5054 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5055 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5056 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5057 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5058 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5060 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5062 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5063 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5066 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5068 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5069 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5071 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5072 550 Sender verify failed
5074 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5075 the final line of the response.
5077 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5078 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5079 all other user lookups.
5081 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5084 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5085 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5086 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5087 result into an int without checking.
5089 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5090 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5091 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5093 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5094 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5095 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5096 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5098 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5101 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5102 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5104 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5105 to the empty sender.
5107 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5108 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5109 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5110 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5111 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5112 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5113 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5116 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5117 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5118 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5119 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5122 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5123 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5125 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5128 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5129 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5131 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5133 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5134 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5137 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5138 as soon as it is encountered.
5140 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5142 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5145 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5146 recognizes a tab character.
5148 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5149 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5150 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5151 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5153 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5155 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5158 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5160 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5162 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5163 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5166 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5167 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5168 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5169 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5170 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5172 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5173 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5175 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5176 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5177 list (.included file names were always shown).
5179 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5180 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5181 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5184 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5185 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5187 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5189 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5191 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5193 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5194 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5195 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5196 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5197 failures to open the logs.
5199 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5200 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5201 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5202 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5203 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5204 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5205 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5211 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5212 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5213 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5216 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5217 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5218 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5220 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5221 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5222 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5224 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5225 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5226 causing some misleading effects.
5228 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5229 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5230 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5232 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5233 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5234 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5235 queue-runner function directly.
5241 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5244 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5245 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5246 was always written to the default place.
5248 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5249 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5250 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5252 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5254 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5256 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5257 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5258 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5260 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5261 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5264 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5265 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5266 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5268 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5269 command line option is disabled.
5271 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5272 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5274 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5276 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5278 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5279 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5281 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5283 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5284 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5285 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5286 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5287 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5288 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5290 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5291 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5294 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5295 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5297 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5298 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5300 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5301 received was valid base64.
5303 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5304 name of the variable that was being set.
5306 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5308 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5309 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5310 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5311 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5312 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5313 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5315 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5317 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5318 nor realm was specified.
5320 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5321 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5322 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5323 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5325 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5326 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5327 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5329 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5330 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5331 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5333 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5334 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5335 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5336 some systems use these upper case variants.
5338 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5339 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5340 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5341 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5343 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5345 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5346 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5348 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5349 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5352 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5354 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5355 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5356 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5357 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5359 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5362 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5363 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5364 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5366 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5367 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5369 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5370 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5371 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5372 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5374 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5375 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5376 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5378 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5380 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5381 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5382 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5383 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5386 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5387 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5388 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5390 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5392 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5393 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5395 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5396 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5398 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5399 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5400 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5401 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5402 when emails are that large.
5409 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5410 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5412 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5413 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5414 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5416 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5417 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5418 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5420 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5421 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5422 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5423 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5424 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5426 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5427 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5428 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5429 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5430 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5433 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5434 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5435 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5436 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5437 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5438 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5439 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5440 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5441 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5442 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5443 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5444 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5445 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5446 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5448 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5449 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5452 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5453 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5454 error should be diagnosed.
5456 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5457 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5458 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5459 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5460 appeared instead of "NULL".
5462 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5463 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5464 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5465 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5466 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5467 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5470 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5471 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5472 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5478 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5479 or receiver verification errors.
5481 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5484 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5485 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5486 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5487 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5489 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5490 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5491 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5492 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5493 shouldn't happen again.
5495 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5496 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5497 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5499 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5500 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5502 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5504 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5505 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5507 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5508 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5511 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5512 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5513 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5515 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5516 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5517 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5518 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5520 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5521 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5522 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5523 to define what should happen).
5525 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5526 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5527 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5529 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5531 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5533 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5534 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5536 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5537 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5538 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5539 structure in all cases.
5541 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5542 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5543 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5544 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5546 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5547 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5550 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5551 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5553 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5554 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5556 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5557 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5558 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5560 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5561 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5562 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5564 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5565 the book and for uniformity.
5567 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5569 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5570 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5571 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5572 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5573 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5574 non-existent command as the problem.
5576 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5577 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5578 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5580 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5582 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5583 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5584 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5586 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5587 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5588 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5589 timestamps using strftime().
5591 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5592 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5594 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5595 transport-time rewrites.
5597 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5598 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5599 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5600 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5602 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5603 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5605 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5606 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5607 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5608 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5611 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5612 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5613 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5614 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5615 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5616 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5617 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5619 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5620 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5621 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5622 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5623 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5625 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5626 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5627 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5628 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5629 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5630 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5631 remaining text gets split now.
5633 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5634 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5635 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5636 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5638 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5639 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5640 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5641 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5644 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5645 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5646 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5647 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5648 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5649 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5650 passed through if needed.
5652 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5653 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5654 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5655 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5656 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5657 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5659 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5660 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5661 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5662 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5663 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5665 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5666 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5667 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5668 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5669 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5671 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5672 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5675 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5676 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5677 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5678 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5679 mayhem of various kinds.
5681 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5682 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5683 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5684 the right test for positive values.
5686 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5687 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5688 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5689 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5690 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5691 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5692 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5693 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5694 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5695 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5698 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5701 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5702 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5705 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5706 the existing equality matching.
5708 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5709 dealing with inode numbers.
5711 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5712 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5713 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5715 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5716 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5717 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5718 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5721 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5722 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5723 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5724 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5725 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5726 relay addresses has also been removed.
5728 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5730 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5731 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5732 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5734 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5735 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5736 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5737 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5738 processing applies to CR:
5740 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5741 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5743 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5744 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5745 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5746 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5748 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5749 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5750 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5752 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5753 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5754 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5755 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5756 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5757 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5760 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5763 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5764 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5765 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5766 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5769 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5771 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5773 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5775 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5776 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5777 not considered personal.
5779 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5781 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5783 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5785 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5786 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5787 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5788 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5789 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5790 header lines, and spool format errors.
5792 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5793 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5794 for more flexibility.
5796 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5797 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5798 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5800 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5803 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5804 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5805 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5806 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5807 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5808 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5809 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5810 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5811 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5813 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5814 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5815 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5816 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5817 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5818 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5819 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5821 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5822 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5823 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5825 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5826 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5827 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5828 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5829 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5830 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5831 instead of killing the process with assert().
5833 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5834 than Unicode encoding.
5836 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5837 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5838 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5839 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5841 77. Added process_log_path.
5843 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5844 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5846 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5847 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5849 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5850 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5851 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5853 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5854 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5855 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5856 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5857 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5860 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5861 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5864 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5865 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5866 they will be used during message reception.
5872 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.