1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
2 -------------------------------------------
7 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
11 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
13 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
16 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
18 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
20 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
22 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
25 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
28 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
31 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
35 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
37 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
40 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
42 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
44 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
48 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
52 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
56 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
61 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
65 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
68 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
70 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
72 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
74 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
75 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
76 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
78 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
79 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
80 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
81 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
83 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
84 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
86 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
87 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
88 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
89 resolver implementation change.
91 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
92 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
94 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
96 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
98 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
99 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
101 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
102 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
104 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
105 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
107 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
108 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
109 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
110 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
111 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
113 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
115 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
116 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
117 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
119 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
121 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
122 read-only, out of scope).
123 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
125 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
126 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
127 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
128 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
130 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
132 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
133 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
134 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
135 real issues in debug logging.
141 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
142 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
144 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
146 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
149 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
150 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
152 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
153 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
154 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
156 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
157 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
158 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
159 not safe for signals.
161 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
162 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
163 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
164 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
167 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
169 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
170 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
171 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
172 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
173 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
175 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
176 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
177 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
178 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
179 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
180 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
182 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
183 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
184 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
185 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
187 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
188 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
189 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
190 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
192 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
193 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
194 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
195 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
196 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
197 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
198 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
199 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
200 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
202 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
203 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
204 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
205 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
207 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
208 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
209 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
210 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
211 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
212 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
213 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
214 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
215 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
216 details in the main documentation.
218 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
220 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
222 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
223 repository when doing development or release builds.
225 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
226 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
228 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
229 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
232 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
234 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
235 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
237 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
238 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
240 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
241 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
243 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
244 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
246 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
247 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
249 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
251 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
254 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
255 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
256 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
258 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
260 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
262 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
263 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
269 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
271 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
272 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
274 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
276 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
278 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
281 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
282 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
284 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
285 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
287 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
290 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
293 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
294 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
296 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
297 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
298 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
299 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
301 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
302 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
308 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
311 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
312 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
313 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
315 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
316 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
318 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
319 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
320 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
322 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
323 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
325 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
326 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
328 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
329 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
331 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
332 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
334 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
335 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
337 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
340 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
341 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
343 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
344 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
346 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
347 SQL string expansion failure details.
348 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
350 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
351 Patch from Simon Arlott.
353 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
354 extern declarations in function scope.
355 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
357 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
358 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
359 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
362 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
363 Patch from Mark Zealey.
365 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
366 Patch from Mark Zealey.
368 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
369 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
371 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
372 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
374 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
375 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
378 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
380 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
382 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
383 Patch by Simon Arlott
385 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
386 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
392 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
393 consequences so log it to the panic log.
395 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
396 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
398 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
400 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
401 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
402 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
404 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
405 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
406 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
408 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
409 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
410 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
411 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
413 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
414 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
415 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
416 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
418 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
419 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
420 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
423 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
426 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
427 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
428 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
429 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
430 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
436 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
437 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
438 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
440 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
441 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
443 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
445 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
447 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
449 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
451 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
453 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
454 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
455 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
456 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
458 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
459 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
460 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
461 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
462 more caution in buffer sizes.
464 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
466 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
468 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
470 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
472 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
474 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
476 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
478 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
479 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
480 ignore trailing whitespace.
482 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
484 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
487 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
488 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
490 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
491 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
492 Notification from John Horne.
494 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
497 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
498 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
501 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
504 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
505 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
506 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
508 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
509 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
510 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
513 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
514 option (effectively making it always true).
516 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
517 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
519 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
520 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
522 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
523 run-time user, instead of root.
525 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
526 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
528 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
529 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
532 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
533 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
534 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
536 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
538 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
544 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
545 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
548 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
549 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
552 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
553 Patch from Alain Williams
555 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
557 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
558 Patch from Andreas Metzler
560 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
561 Patch from Kirill Miazine
563 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
565 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
567 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
568 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
570 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
572 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
574 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
575 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
576 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
578 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
579 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
581 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
582 Patch by Simon Arlott
584 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
585 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
591 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
593 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
595 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
597 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
599 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
605 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
606 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
608 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
609 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
612 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
613 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
614 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
616 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
617 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
619 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
620 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
621 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
622 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
624 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
625 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
626 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
628 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
630 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
632 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
633 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
635 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
637 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
638 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
639 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
640 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
642 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
643 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
645 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
647 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
649 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
650 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
652 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
653 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
655 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
656 that they are available at delivery time.
658 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
660 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
661 incoming_port log selectors.
663 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
664 setting expands to an empty string.
666 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
667 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
669 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
670 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
672 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
673 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
675 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
676 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
678 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
679 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
681 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
682 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
684 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
686 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
687 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
689 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
690 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
692 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
694 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
695 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
697 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
699 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
701 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
704 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
705 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
707 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
708 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
710 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
711 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
713 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
714 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
716 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
717 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
719 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
720 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
722 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
723 plus update to original patch.
725 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
727 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
728 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
730 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
732 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
734 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
736 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
738 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
739 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
741 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
742 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
744 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
745 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
747 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
748 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
750 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
752 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
754 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
756 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
762 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
763 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
764 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
766 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
767 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
768 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
769 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
770 build errors in sieve.c.
772 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
773 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
774 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
776 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
778 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
780 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
782 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
788 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
790 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
791 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
792 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
793 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
794 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
795 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
796 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
797 for iplsearch lookups.
799 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
800 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
801 previously such lookups could never work.
803 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
804 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
805 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
807 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
810 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
811 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
812 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
813 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
814 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
815 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
817 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
818 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
820 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
821 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
822 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
823 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
824 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
825 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
827 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
830 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
832 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
833 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
836 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
837 by clients under certain conditions.
839 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
840 "_responses" off the end of the name.
842 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
844 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
845 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
847 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
849 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
851 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
853 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
854 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
856 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
858 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
859 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
861 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
863 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
865 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
866 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
867 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
868 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
870 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
871 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
872 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
874 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
875 and InterBase are left for another time.)
877 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
879 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
881 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
883 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
884 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
885 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
891 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
892 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
895 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
896 issue a MAIL command.
898 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
900 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
902 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
903 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
904 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
905 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
906 item. This has been fixed.
908 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
909 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
911 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
912 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
914 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
915 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
916 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
918 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
920 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
921 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
922 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
923 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
924 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
926 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
927 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
928 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
930 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
931 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
932 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
933 the server_setid option was incorrect.
935 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
937 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
939 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
940 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
941 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
942 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
943 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
945 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
947 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
948 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
949 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
952 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
954 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
956 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
958 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
960 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
962 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
963 no_callout_flush is set.
965 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
966 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
967 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
970 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
972 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
973 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
974 other ACL rejections are.
976 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
977 with slight modification.
979 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
980 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
982 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
983 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
986 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
987 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
989 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
991 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
992 expansion side effects.
994 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
995 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
996 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
999 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1000 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1001 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1003 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1004 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1005 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1006 were accidentally chopped off.
1008 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1009 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1010 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1011 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1012 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1013 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1014 pipelining has not been advertised.
1016 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1018 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1019 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1020 This has been fixed.
1022 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1023 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1024 reported on Solaris.
1026 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1027 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1028 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1029 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1030 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1031 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1032 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1034 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1037 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1039 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1041 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1042 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1043 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1044 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1045 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1046 criteria to be more general.
1048 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1049 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1050 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1051 host_all_ignored option.
1053 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1054 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1055 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1056 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1057 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1058 is what is supposed to happen).
1060 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1061 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1062 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1063 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1064 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1067 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1068 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1069 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1070 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1071 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1072 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1075 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1077 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1078 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1080 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1081 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1083 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1085 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1087 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1088 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1089 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1090 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1091 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1092 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1093 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1094 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1095 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1096 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1097 least in a lot of common cases.
1099 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1100 advertised in response to EHLO.
1106 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1107 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1109 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1110 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1112 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1113 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1114 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1116 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1117 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1118 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1119 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1120 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1126 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1127 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1130 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1131 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1132 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1134 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1135 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1136 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1137 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1138 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1139 rather than extend the field.
1145 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1146 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1147 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1148 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1151 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1152 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1153 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1155 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1156 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1157 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1159 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1160 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1161 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1164 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1165 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1166 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1167 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1168 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1169 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1170 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1171 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1172 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1173 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1174 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1176 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1179 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1180 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1181 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1182 ignores EPIPE as well.
1184 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1185 (quoted-printable decoding).
1187 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1188 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1190 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1192 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1194 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1196 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1197 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1199 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1202 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1203 miscellaneous code fixes
1205 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1208 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1209 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1210 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1211 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1212 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1213 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1214 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1215 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1217 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1218 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1219 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1220 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1222 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1223 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1224 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1225 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1226 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1227 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1228 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1229 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1230 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1232 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1235 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1236 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1237 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1238 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1239 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1240 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1241 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1242 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1244 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1245 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1248 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1249 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1250 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1251 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1252 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1253 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1254 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1255 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1256 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1257 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1258 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1259 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1260 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1262 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1263 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1264 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1265 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1266 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1267 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1268 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1270 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1271 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1272 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1273 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1274 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1275 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1276 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1277 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1278 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1279 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1281 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1282 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1283 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1284 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1285 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1287 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1288 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1289 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1290 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1291 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1292 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1293 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1295 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1296 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1297 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1298 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1299 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1300 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1303 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1304 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1305 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1308 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1309 if any retry times were supplied.
1311 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1312 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1313 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1315 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1317 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1319 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1320 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1321 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1322 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1323 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1324 before) are ignored.
1326 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1327 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1329 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1330 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1331 committing the later change.]
1333 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1334 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1335 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1336 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1337 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1338 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1339 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1340 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1341 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1343 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1344 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1345 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1346 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1347 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1348 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1349 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1350 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1351 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1353 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1354 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1355 hammering the server.
1357 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1358 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1360 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1362 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1363 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1364 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1366 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1367 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1368 one case where this was not true.
1370 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1371 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1372 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1373 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1376 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1377 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1378 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1379 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1380 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1381 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1382 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1383 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1384 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1387 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1388 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1389 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1390 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1392 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1393 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1395 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1396 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1397 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1399 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1401 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1403 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1405 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1406 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1407 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1408 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1410 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1411 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1413 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1414 be meaningful with "accept".
1416 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1417 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1419 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1420 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1421 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1423 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1424 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1425 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1426 there is data to show.
1427 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1429 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1430 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1431 as well as the number of messages.
1433 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1434 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1435 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1437 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1438 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1439 have a flag are now skipped.
1441 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1442 Added the -emptyok flag.
1444 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1445 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1447 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1448 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1449 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1451 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1454 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1455 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1457 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1459 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1460 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1462 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1464 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1465 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1466 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1467 contravention of the specifications.
1469 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1470 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1471 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1473 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1474 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1475 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1477 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1479 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1480 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1481 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1482 some point in the past.
1484 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1485 transport during callout processing was broken.
1487 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1488 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1490 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1491 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1493 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1494 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1496 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1502 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1503 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1505 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1506 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1507 there is data to show.
1508 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1510 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1511 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1513 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1514 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1516 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1517 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1519 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1520 submissions from trusted users.
1522 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1523 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1525 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1526 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1527 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1528 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1529 there is now a framework to start from.
1531 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1532 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1533 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1535 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1537 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1539 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1541 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1542 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1543 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1545 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1548 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1549 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1550 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1552 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1553 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1554 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1557 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1558 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1559 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1560 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1561 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1563 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1564 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1566 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1568 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1569 operations in malware.c.
1571 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1574 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1575 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1576 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1579 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1580 statements to "add_header".
1582 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1583 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1585 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1586 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1589 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1593 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1594 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1595 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1598 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1599 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1601 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1602 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1604 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1605 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1606 any possible encoding problems.
1608 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1609 but not after initializing Perl.
1611 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1612 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1613 apparently, which is not desirable.
1615 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1618 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1621 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1623 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1624 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1625 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1626 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1628 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1629 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1630 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1632 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1633 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1634 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1637 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1638 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1639 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1640 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1641 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1647 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1648 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1650 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1653 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1654 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1655 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1656 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1657 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1658 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1659 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1660 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1663 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1665 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1666 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1667 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1669 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1670 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1671 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1674 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1675 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1677 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1678 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1679 option (which defaults to 0600).
1681 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1683 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1684 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1685 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1686 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1687 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1688 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1689 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1691 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1697 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1698 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1699 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1700 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1701 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1702 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1705 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1706 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1708 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1710 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1711 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1712 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1713 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1714 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1717 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1718 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1720 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1721 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1722 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1723 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1724 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1726 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1727 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1728 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1729 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1731 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1732 be the same on different OS.
1734 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1737 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1738 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1740 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1743 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1744 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1745 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1746 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1747 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1748 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1751 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1752 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1753 when Exim was called.
1755 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1756 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1758 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1759 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1760 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1761 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1763 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1764 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1765 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1766 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1769 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1770 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1771 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1773 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1774 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1775 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1777 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1780 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1781 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1782 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1783 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1784 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1785 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1786 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1787 values from the SRV records were lost.
1789 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1790 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1791 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1793 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1794 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1795 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1797 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1798 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1799 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1800 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1801 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1802 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1803 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1804 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1805 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1806 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1808 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1809 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1810 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1812 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1813 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1815 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1816 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1817 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1818 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1821 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1822 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1823 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1825 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1826 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1827 PH/23 above applies.
1829 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1830 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1831 (for which there is an explicit test).
1833 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1835 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1836 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1837 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1838 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1839 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1841 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1842 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1843 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1844 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1846 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1847 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1848 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1850 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1852 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1854 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1855 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1856 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1858 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1859 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1860 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1861 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1862 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1864 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1865 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1866 the message gets confusing).
1868 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1869 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1870 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1871 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1873 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1874 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1875 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1876 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1879 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1880 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1881 the different processes.
1883 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1885 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1887 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1888 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1890 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1891 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1893 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1894 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1895 messages matching specified criteria.
1897 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1899 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1900 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1902 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1903 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1904 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1905 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1906 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1907 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1908 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1909 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1910 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1911 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1913 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1914 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1915 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1917 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1919 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1920 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1921 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1922 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1923 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1924 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1925 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1928 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1929 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1931 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1933 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1935 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1937 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1938 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1939 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1940 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1941 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1942 size of the count of files.
1944 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1946 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1949 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1950 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1951 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1952 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1954 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1955 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1956 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1958 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1959 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1960 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1961 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1962 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1964 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1965 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1967 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1968 will now be deprecated.
1970 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1972 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1973 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1974 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1976 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1977 with very large, slow to parse queues
1979 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1981 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1983 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1984 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1985 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1988 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1989 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1990 Sieve code now uses this.
1992 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1993 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1995 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1996 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1998 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2000 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2001 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2002 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2003 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2004 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2006 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2007 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2008 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2009 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2011 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2013 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2015 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2016 is preferred over IPv4.
2018 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2019 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2020 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2021 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2022 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2023 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2024 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2026 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2027 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2028 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2030 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2032 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2033 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2034 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2035 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2036 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2037 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2038 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2039 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2040 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2041 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2042 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2044 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2045 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2046 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2052 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2054 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2055 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2057 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2058 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2059 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2061 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2063 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2066 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2069 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2070 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2071 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2074 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2075 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2077 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2078 inside the third argument.
2080 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2081 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2084 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2085 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2087 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2088 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2090 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2092 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2093 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2096 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2098 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2099 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2100 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2101 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2102 identical. For example:
2104 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2106 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2107 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2108 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2110 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2111 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2112 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2113 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2115 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2116 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2117 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2120 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2122 o fixes some comments
2123 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2124 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2125 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2126 and documents the missing references header update
2130 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2131 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2134 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2135 Electronic Mail") by including:
2137 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2139 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2140 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2141 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2142 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2143 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2145 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2147 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2149 The auto-replied keyword:
2151 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2152 message by an automatic process,
2154 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2156 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2157 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2159 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2160 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2163 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2164 to the default Received: header definition.
2166 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2168 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2169 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2170 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2172 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2173 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2174 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2176 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2177 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2178 and treats the condition as false.
2180 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2182 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2183 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2184 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2185 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2186 not changing the active code.
2188 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2189 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2191 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2192 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2194 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2197 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2198 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2199 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2200 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2201 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2202 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2203 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2204 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2205 the text comparison.
2207 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2208 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2209 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2210 The same fix has been applied.
2216 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2217 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2220 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2221 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2223 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2225 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2226 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2227 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2228 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2229 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2231 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2232 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2233 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2234 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2237 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2245 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2246 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2248 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2250 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2252 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2253 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2254 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2256 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2257 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2258 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2260 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2261 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2264 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2265 ${stat: expansion item.
2267 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2268 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2270 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2271 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2274 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2276 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2279 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2280 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2282 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2284 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2285 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2286 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2287 the end of the subprocess.
2289 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2290 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2291 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2292 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2293 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2295 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2297 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2299 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2300 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2302 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2304 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2306 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2307 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2310 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2312 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2313 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2314 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2316 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2317 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2319 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2320 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2322 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2323 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2325 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2326 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2328 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2329 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2330 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2331 contributed by a Radius user.
2333 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2334 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2336 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2337 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2339 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2342 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2343 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2346 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2347 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2348 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2349 header lines when this was not necessary.
2351 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2353 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2354 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2355 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2358 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2361 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2362 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2363 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2364 return code was incorrect.
2366 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2368 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2370 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2372 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2374 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2375 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2376 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2377 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2378 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2381 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2383 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2384 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2385 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2386 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2387 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2388 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2389 which is clearly wrong.
2391 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2393 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2394 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2395 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2398 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2399 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2401 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2403 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2404 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2406 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2407 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2409 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2410 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2412 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2413 recipients, not senders.
2415 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2416 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2418 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2420 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2422 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2423 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2424 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2425 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2427 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2429 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2430 clock is set back in time.
2432 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2433 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2435 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2436 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2438 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2439 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2442 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2443 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2446 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2449 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2451 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2452 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2453 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2455 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2456 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2457 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2458 helo verification defer as a failure.
2460 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2461 actual error message.
2467 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2469 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2470 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2471 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2472 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2474 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2476 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2477 can still be requested.
2479 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2480 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2481 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2482 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2484 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2485 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2486 circumstances, but probably never did.
2488 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2489 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2490 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2493 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2495 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2496 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2498 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2500 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2502 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2503 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2504 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2505 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2506 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2507 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2509 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2510 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2511 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2512 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2513 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2514 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2516 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2517 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2519 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2520 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2522 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2523 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2525 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2527 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2529 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2531 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2533 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2535 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2537 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2539 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2540 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2541 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2543 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2544 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2545 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2546 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2548 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2549 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2550 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2552 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2553 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2554 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2555 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2557 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2558 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2561 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2562 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2563 should work with maildirs and everything.
2565 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2566 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2568 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2571 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2572 function for BDB 4.3.
2574 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2576 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2577 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2580 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2581 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2582 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2583 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2584 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2585 formatting function string_vformat().
2587 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2588 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2589 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2590 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2591 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2592 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2593 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2594 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2596 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2597 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2600 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2601 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2603 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2604 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2605 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2606 test. It is now used for both.
2608 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2609 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2610 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2611 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2612 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2613 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2615 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2616 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2617 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2620 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2621 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2622 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2624 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2625 experimental DomainKeys support:
2627 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2628 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2629 the control was given.
2631 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2633 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2635 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2637 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2638 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2639 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2642 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2643 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2644 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2645 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2646 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2647 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2650 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2651 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2652 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2653 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2654 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2655 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2657 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2658 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2659 do -d+all out of habit.
2661 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2662 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2665 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2666 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2667 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2668 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2669 record types that Exim uses.
2671 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2672 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2673 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2674 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2675 non-existent file that was broken.
2677 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2678 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2680 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2681 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2682 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2684 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2686 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2687 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2688 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2689 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2690 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2693 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2694 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2695 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2696 at a slight CPU cost.
2698 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2699 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2701 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2704 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2706 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2707 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2713 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2714 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2716 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2718 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2720 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2721 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2723 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2724 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2725 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2726 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2727 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2728 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2731 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2732 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2733 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2734 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2737 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2738 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2739 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2740 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2741 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2742 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2743 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2746 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2747 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2749 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2750 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2751 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2752 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2753 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2754 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2756 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2757 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2758 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2759 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2761 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2764 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2765 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2767 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2768 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2769 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2770 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2773 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2775 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2776 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2778 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2779 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2780 to what was transported.)
2782 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2784 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2785 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2786 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2787 spamd_address settings.
2789 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2790 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2791 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2792 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2793 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2795 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2797 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2798 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2799 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2800 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2801 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2803 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2804 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2806 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2807 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2808 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2809 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2810 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2811 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2812 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2815 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2816 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2817 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2818 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2819 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2820 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2821 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2824 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2826 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2827 driver and ACL definitions.
2829 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2830 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2832 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2833 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2834 understands it better than I do:
2836 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2837 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2839 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2840 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2841 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2842 => three warnings about OTP not working
2843 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2845 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2846 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2847 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2848 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2850 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2851 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2853 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2854 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2855 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2857 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2858 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2861 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2862 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2865 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2866 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2867 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2869 warn !verify = sender
2870 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2872 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2873 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2875 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2877 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2878 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2880 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2881 nomenclature these days.)
2883 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2884 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2886 PH/30 In these circumstances:
2887 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2888 . First host does not offer TLS;
2889 . First host accepts first address;
2890 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2891 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2892 . Second host accepts second address.
2893 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2894 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2897 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2898 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2899 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2900 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2901 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2903 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2904 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2906 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2907 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2909 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2910 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2911 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2913 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2914 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2917 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2919 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2920 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2921 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2922 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2923 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2924 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2925 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2927 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2928 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2929 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2930 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2931 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2933 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2934 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2937 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2938 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2939 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2940 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2941 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2942 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2944 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2946 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2947 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2948 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2949 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2950 printable escape sequences.
2952 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2953 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2956 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2957 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2960 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2961 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2962 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2963 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2964 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2966 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2967 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2968 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2970 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2972 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2973 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2976 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2977 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2978 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2979 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2980 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2981 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2982 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2983 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2984 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2987 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2988 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2989 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2990 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2994 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2995 ----------------------------------------
2997 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2998 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2999 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3000 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3001 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3002 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3005 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3006 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3007 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3008 historical information.
3014 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3016 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3017 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3019 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3020 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3023 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3024 filter fails to execute.
3026 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3027 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3028 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3029 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3030 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3032 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3034 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3035 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3036 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3037 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3039 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3040 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3041 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3042 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3043 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3045 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3047 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3049 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3050 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3051 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3052 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3054 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3055 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3056 sender verification.
3058 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3059 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3061 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3063 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3066 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3067 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3069 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3070 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3072 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3073 information about exactly what failed.
3075 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3077 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3078 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3079 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3081 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3082 It is now set to "smtps".
3084 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3085 ignore_target_hosts.
3087 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3088 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3089 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3090 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3093 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3094 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3095 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3097 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3098 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3099 wake it up if nothing else does.
3101 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3102 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3103 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3106 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3107 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3109 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3111 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3112 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3113 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3114 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3115 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3116 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3117 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3118 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3120 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3121 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3122 than one IP address.
3124 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3125 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3126 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3127 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3129 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3130 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3131 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3132 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3133 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3136 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3137 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3138 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3139 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3141 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3142 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3145 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3146 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3147 $sender_host_address.
3149 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3150 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3151 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3152 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3153 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3156 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3158 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3159 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3161 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3162 just the host names, not the priorities.
3164 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3165 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3166 controlled by a keyword.
3168 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3169 multiple records are returned.
3171 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3172 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3175 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3177 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3178 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3180 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3181 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3182 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3184 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3186 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3188 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3190 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3191 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3192 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3193 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3194 because the tests only now provoked it.
3196 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3197 (this can affect the format of dates).
3199 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3200 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3201 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3202 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3204 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3206 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3207 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3208 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3209 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3211 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3212 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3213 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3215 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3218 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3219 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3220 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3221 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3222 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3223 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3226 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3227 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3228 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3231 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3232 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3233 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3235 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3236 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3237 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3238 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3239 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3240 so I produce this patch..."
3242 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3243 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3246 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3247 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3248 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3249 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3252 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3254 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3255 long debug lines gets shown.
3257 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3258 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3260 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3262 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3263 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3264 of $primary_hostname.
3266 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3267 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3268 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3269 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3270 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3271 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3272 by change 4.50/55 above.
3274 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3275 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3276 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3277 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3278 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3279 running as the user.
3282 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3283 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3284 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3287 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3288 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3290 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3291 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3292 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3293 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3294 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3296 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3297 This has been fixed.
3299 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3300 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3301 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3302 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3305 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3307 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3308 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3309 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3310 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3312 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3313 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3315 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3316 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3317 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3319 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3320 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3321 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3324 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3325 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3326 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3328 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3329 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3330 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3331 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3333 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3334 during host lookups.
3336 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3337 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3339 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3341 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3342 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3343 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3344 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3345 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3348 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3349 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3351 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3352 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3353 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3355 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3357 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3358 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3359 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3360 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3361 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3362 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3365 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3366 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3367 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3368 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3369 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3371 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3374 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3376 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3377 "vacation" handling.
3379 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3380 OS variants using glibc.
3382 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3385 ----------------------------------------------------
3386 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3387 ----------------------------------------------------
3393 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3394 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3397 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3398 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3401 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3402 filter fails to execute.
3404 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3405 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3406 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3407 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3408 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3410 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3411 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3412 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3413 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3415 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3416 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3417 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3418 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3419 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3421 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3423 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3424 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3425 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3426 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3428 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3429 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3430 sender verification.
3432 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3433 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3435 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3436 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3438 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3439 ignore_target_hosts.
3441 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3442 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3443 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3444 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3447 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3448 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3449 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3451 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3452 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3453 wake it up if nothing else does.
3455 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3456 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3457 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3460 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3461 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3463 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3465 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3466 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3469 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3470 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3473 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3474 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3475 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3476 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3477 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3480 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3481 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3484 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3485 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3486 $sender_host_address.
3488 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3490 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3491 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3492 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3494 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3497 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3498 (this can affect the format of dates).
3500 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3501 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3502 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3503 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3505 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3506 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3507 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3509 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3510 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3511 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3512 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3514 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3515 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3516 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3518 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3521 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3522 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3523 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3524 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3525 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3526 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3529 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3530 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3531 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3532 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3535 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3536 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3537 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3538 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3539 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3540 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3541 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3543 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3544 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3545 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3546 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3547 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3548 running as the user.
3551 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3552 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3553 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3556 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3557 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3558 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3559 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3560 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3562 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3563 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3564 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3565 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3568 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3569 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3570 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3571 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3572 because the tests only now provoked it.
3578 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3579 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3580 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3581 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3582 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3583 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3584 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3586 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3587 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3590 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3592 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3594 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3595 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3598 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3599 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3600 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3601 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3602 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3604 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3605 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3607 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3609 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3611 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3614 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3615 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3617 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3618 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3619 affecting debugging statements).
3621 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3623 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3624 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3625 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3626 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3627 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3628 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3629 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3630 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3631 after the received time, and all would be well.
3633 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3634 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3635 condition in an expansion string.
3637 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3639 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3640 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3641 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3642 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3643 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3644 job under whatever limits there are.
3646 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3648 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3651 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3652 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3653 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3654 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3657 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3658 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3659 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3660 binary data in such strings.
3662 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3664 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3665 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3666 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3667 failure, which is pointless.
3669 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3671 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3673 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3674 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3675 Sender: header lines.
3677 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3678 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3679 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3681 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3682 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3683 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3684 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3685 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3688 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3689 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3690 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3691 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3692 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3694 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3695 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3696 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3699 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3700 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3702 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3703 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3705 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3707 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3709 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3711 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3714 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3716 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3718 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3719 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3720 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3721 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3723 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3724 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3730 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3731 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3732 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3734 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3735 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3736 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3737 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3738 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3739 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3741 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3742 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3743 verification failure".
3745 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3746 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3747 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3748 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3750 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3751 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3752 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3753 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3754 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3755 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3756 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3757 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3758 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3759 treated as a timeout.
3761 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3762 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3763 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3764 not set for Exim filters).
3766 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3767 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3768 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3770 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3772 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3773 try to make them clearer.
3775 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3776 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3778 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3780 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3782 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3783 only the Cygwin environment.
3785 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3786 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3787 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3788 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3789 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3791 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3792 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3793 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3794 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3795 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3796 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3797 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3799 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3800 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3802 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3804 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3805 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3806 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3808 To: susanne@some.where
3810 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3811 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3812 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3813 of addresses in From: header lines).
3815 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3816 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3817 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3819 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3820 treated as non-personal.
3822 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3823 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3825 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3827 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3829 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3830 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3831 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3833 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3834 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3836 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3837 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3838 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3839 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3840 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3841 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3843 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3844 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3845 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3846 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3847 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3848 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3849 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3850 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3852 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3854 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3855 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3857 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3858 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3859 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3861 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3862 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3864 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3865 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3866 rather than long int.
3868 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3870 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3876 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3877 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3878 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3879 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3880 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3881 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3887 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3888 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3890 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3891 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3892 socklen_t is defined.
3894 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3897 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3900 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3901 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3902 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3903 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3904 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3906 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3907 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3908 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3909 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3911 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3912 of flapping under certain conditions.
3914 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3915 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3916 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3918 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3920 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3922 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3923 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3924 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3925 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3927 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3928 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3929 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3930 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3931 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3932 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3933 preserved with the message after it was received.
3935 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3936 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3937 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3938 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3939 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3940 test suite worked just fine.
3942 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3943 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3944 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3946 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3947 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3950 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3951 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3952 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3953 does not fully solve it.
3955 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3956 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3957 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3958 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3959 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3961 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3962 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3963 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3965 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3966 string, for example:
3968 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3970 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3971 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3972 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3973 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3974 the routers could not see them.
3976 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3977 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3979 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3980 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3983 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3984 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3985 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3986 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3987 that needed quoting.
3989 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3990 was not being matched caselessly.
3992 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3995 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3996 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3997 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3998 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3999 when use_sender is false.
4001 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4003 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4005 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4007 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4008 the configuration file.
4010 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4011 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4013 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4015 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4016 bytes in the message body.
4018 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4019 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4022 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4024 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4026 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4027 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4028 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4029 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4036 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4037 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4039 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4040 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4041 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4042 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4043 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4045 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4046 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4048 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4049 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4050 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4052 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4053 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4054 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4056 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4059 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4060 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4061 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4062 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4063 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4064 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4065 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4071 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4072 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4073 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4074 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4075 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4076 default (and expected) setting.
4078 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4079 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4080 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4081 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4083 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4084 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4086 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4089 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4090 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4091 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4092 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4093 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4094 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4096 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4097 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4098 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4100 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4101 part (NOT match_host).
4103 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4105 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4106 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4107 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4108 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4109 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4110 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4111 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4112 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4113 the same named file.
4115 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4116 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4119 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4120 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4121 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4122 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4125 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4126 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4127 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4129 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4131 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4133 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4135 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4136 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4138 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4139 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4140 before starting the TLS session.
4142 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4144 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4145 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4147 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4148 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4149 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4150 colon in the middle).
4156 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4157 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4158 multiple configurations are in use.
4160 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4161 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4162 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4163 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4164 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4165 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4167 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4168 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4170 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4171 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4172 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4174 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4175 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4178 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4179 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4181 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4183 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4184 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4186 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4194 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4195 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4196 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4197 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4198 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4200 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4203 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4204 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4205 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4206 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4207 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4208 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4210 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4211 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4212 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4213 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4214 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4215 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4216 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4219 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4220 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4221 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4222 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4223 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4225 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4227 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4228 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4229 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4231 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4233 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4234 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4235 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4238 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4239 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4241 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4242 Three changes have been made:
4244 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4245 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4246 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4247 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4248 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4250 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4253 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4254 the modified behaviour.
4260 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4263 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4264 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4266 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4267 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4268 try to track down a specific problem.
4270 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4271 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4272 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4274 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4277 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4278 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4279 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4280 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4281 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4282 some earlier ones do not.
4284 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4286 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4287 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4288 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4289 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4290 address literals are enabled, of course).
4292 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4294 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4295 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4296 by a command such as
4300 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4302 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4304 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4305 remained set. It is now erased.
4307 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4308 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4310 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4311 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4312 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4313 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4314 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4315 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4316 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4317 appropriate error code.
4319 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4320 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4321 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4322 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4323 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4324 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4326 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4327 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4328 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4330 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4331 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4332 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4333 terminate the header.
4335 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4336 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4337 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4339 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4340 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4341 (4.30/29). In particular:
4343 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4346 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4347 to write a maildirsize file.
4349 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4350 the transport, the new value overrides.
4352 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4355 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4356 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4357 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4360 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4361 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4362 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4365 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4366 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4367 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4369 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4370 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4373 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4374 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4375 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4377 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4379 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4381 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4383 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4384 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4387 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4388 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4389 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4390 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4391 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4392 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4393 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4396 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4397 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4398 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4399 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4400 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4403 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4404 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4405 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4406 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4407 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4408 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4409 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4410 cached value only when the same options are set.
4412 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4414 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4415 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4416 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4417 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4418 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4420 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4421 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4422 it is clearly obsolete.
4424 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4427 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4428 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4429 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4432 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4433 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4434 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4435 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4436 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4438 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4439 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4440 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4441 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4443 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4445 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4447 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4448 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4451 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4452 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4453 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4454 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4455 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4456 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4459 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4460 with the -f command-line option.
4462 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4463 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4464 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4465 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4466 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4467 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4469 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4470 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4473 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4474 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4475 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4476 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4477 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4478 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4479 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4480 buffer is too small.
4482 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4483 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4485 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4486 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4487 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4488 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4489 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4490 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4491 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4492 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4493 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4495 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4496 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4497 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4499 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4500 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4503 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4504 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4505 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4506 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4507 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4509 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4510 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4511 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4512 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4515 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4517 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4519 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4520 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4522 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4523 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4524 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4526 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4527 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4528 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4529 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4530 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4532 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4533 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4534 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4535 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4536 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4537 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4538 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4540 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4541 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4542 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4543 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4544 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4545 the test of how many are available.
4547 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4548 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4549 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4550 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4551 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4552 new message is started.
4554 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4555 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4557 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4558 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4560 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4561 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4562 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4565 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4566 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4567 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4568 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4569 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4570 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4571 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4573 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4574 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4575 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4576 interpreted as octal.
4578 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4581 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4582 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4583 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4584 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4585 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4586 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4588 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4589 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4590 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4591 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4593 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4594 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4595 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4596 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4598 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4599 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4602 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4603 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4605 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4607 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4608 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4609 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4610 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4612 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4613 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4614 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4615 supplied", which is not helpful.
4617 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4618 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4619 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4621 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4622 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4623 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4624 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4625 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4626 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4627 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4628 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4630 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4631 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4632 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4633 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4634 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4636 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4637 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4638 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4639 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4640 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4641 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4643 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4644 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4645 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4647 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4649 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4650 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4651 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4654 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4656 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4657 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4658 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4659 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4660 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4661 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4662 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4663 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4665 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4666 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4667 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4668 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4669 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4671 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4674 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4675 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4676 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4677 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4678 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4679 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4680 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4681 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4682 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4688 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4689 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4690 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4692 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4695 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4696 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4697 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4699 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4700 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4701 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4702 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4703 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4704 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4706 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4707 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4708 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4709 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4710 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4711 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4712 the Exim test suite.
4714 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4715 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4716 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4717 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4719 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4720 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4721 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4722 specify it in this variable.
4724 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4725 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4726 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4727 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4729 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4730 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4731 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4732 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4734 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4735 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4736 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4737 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4738 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4740 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4742 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4745 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4746 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4747 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4748 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4749 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4751 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4752 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4754 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4755 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4756 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4757 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4758 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4760 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4761 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4763 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4764 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4765 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4767 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4768 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4770 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4771 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4773 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4774 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4775 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4777 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4778 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4780 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4781 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4782 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4783 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4785 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4787 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4788 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4789 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4790 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4792 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4794 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4795 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4797 25. Added .include_if_exists.
4799 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4800 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4801 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4802 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4803 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4804 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4806 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4808 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4809 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4812 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4814 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4815 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4817 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4818 550 Sender verify failed
4820 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4821 the final line of the response.
4823 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4824 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4825 all other user lookups.
4827 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4830 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4831 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4832 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4833 result into an int without checking.
4835 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4836 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4837 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4839 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4840 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4841 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4842 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4844 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4847 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4848 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4850 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4851 to the empty sender.
4853 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4854 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4855 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4856 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4857 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4858 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4859 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4862 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4863 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4864 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4865 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4868 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4869 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4871 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4874 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4875 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4877 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4879 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4880 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4883 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4884 as soon as it is encountered.
4886 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4888 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4891 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4892 recognizes a tab character.
4894 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4895 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4896 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4897 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4899 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4901 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4904 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4906 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4908 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4909 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4912 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4913 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4914 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4915 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4916 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4918 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4919 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4921 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4922 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4923 list (.included file names were always shown).
4925 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4926 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4927 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4930 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4931 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4933 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4935 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4937 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4939 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4940 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4941 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4942 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4943 failures to open the logs.
4945 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4946 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4947 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4948 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4949 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4950 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4951 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4957 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4958 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4959 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4962 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4963 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4964 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4966 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4967 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4968 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4970 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4971 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4972 causing some misleading effects.
4974 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4975 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4976 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4978 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4979 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4980 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4981 queue-runner function directly.
4987 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4990 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4991 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4992 was always written to the default place.
4994 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4995 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4996 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4998 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5000 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5002 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5003 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5004 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5006 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5007 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5010 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5011 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5012 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5014 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5015 command line option is disabled.
5017 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5018 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5020 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5022 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5024 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5025 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5027 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5029 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5030 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5031 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5032 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5033 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5034 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5036 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5037 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5040 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5041 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5043 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5044 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5046 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5047 received was valid base64.
5049 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5050 name of the variable that was being set.
5052 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5054 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5055 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5056 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5057 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5058 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5059 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5061 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5063 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5064 nor realm was specified.
5066 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5067 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5068 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5069 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5071 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5072 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5073 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5075 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5076 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5077 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5079 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5080 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5081 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5082 some systems use these upper case variants.
5084 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5085 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5086 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5087 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5089 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5091 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5092 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5094 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5095 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5098 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5100 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5101 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5102 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5103 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5105 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5108 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5109 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5110 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5112 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5113 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5115 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5116 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5117 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5118 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5120 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5121 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5122 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5124 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5126 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5127 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5128 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5129 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5132 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5133 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5134 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5136 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5138 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5139 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5141 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5142 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5144 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5145 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5146 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5147 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5148 when emails are that large.
5155 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5156 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5158 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5159 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5160 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5162 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5163 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5164 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5166 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5167 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5168 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5169 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5170 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5172 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5173 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5174 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5175 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5176 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5179 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5180 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5181 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5182 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5183 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5184 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5185 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5186 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5187 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5188 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5189 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5190 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5191 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5192 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5194 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5195 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5198 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5199 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5200 error should be diagnosed.
5202 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5203 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5204 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5205 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5206 appeared instead of "NULL".
5208 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5209 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5210 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5211 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5212 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5213 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5216 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5217 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5218 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5224 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5225 or receiver verification errors.
5227 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5230 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5231 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5232 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5233 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5235 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5236 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5237 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5238 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5239 shouldn't happen again.
5241 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5242 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5243 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5245 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5246 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5248 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5250 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5251 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5253 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5254 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5257 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5258 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5259 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5261 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5262 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5263 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5264 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5266 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5267 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5268 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5269 to define what should happen).
5271 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5272 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5273 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5275 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5277 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5279 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5280 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5282 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5283 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5284 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5285 structure in all cases.
5287 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5288 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5289 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5290 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5292 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5293 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5296 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5297 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5299 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5300 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5302 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5303 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5304 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5306 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5307 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5308 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5310 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5311 the book and for uniformity.
5313 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5315 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5316 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5317 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5318 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5319 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5320 non-existent command as the problem.
5322 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5323 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5324 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5326 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5328 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5329 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5330 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5332 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5333 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5334 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5335 timestamps using strftime().
5337 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5338 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5340 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5341 transport-time rewrites.
5343 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5344 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5345 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5346 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5348 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5349 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5351 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5352 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5353 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5354 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5357 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5358 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5359 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5360 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5361 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5362 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5363 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5365 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5366 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5367 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5368 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5369 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5371 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5372 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5373 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5374 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5375 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5376 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5377 remaining text gets split now.
5379 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5380 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5381 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5382 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5384 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5385 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5386 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5387 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5390 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5391 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5392 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5393 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5394 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5395 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5396 passed through if needed.
5398 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5399 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5400 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5401 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5402 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5403 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5405 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5406 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5407 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5408 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5409 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5411 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5412 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5413 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5414 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5415 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5417 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5418 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5421 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5422 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5423 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5424 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5425 mayhem of various kinds.
5427 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5428 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5429 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5430 the right test for positive values.
5432 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5433 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5434 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5435 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5436 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5437 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5438 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5439 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5440 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5441 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5444 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5447 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5448 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5451 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5452 the existing equality matching.
5454 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5455 dealing with inode numbers.
5457 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5458 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5459 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5461 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5462 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5463 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5464 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5467 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5468 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5469 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5470 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5471 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5472 relay addresses has also been removed.
5474 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5476 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5477 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5478 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5480 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5481 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5482 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5483 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5484 processing applies to CR:
5486 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5487 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5489 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5490 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5491 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5492 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5494 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5495 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5496 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5498 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5499 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5500 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5501 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5502 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5503 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5506 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5509 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5510 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5511 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5512 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5515 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5517 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5519 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5521 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5522 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5523 not considered personal.
5525 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5527 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5529 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5531 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5532 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5533 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5534 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5535 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5536 header lines, and spool format errors.
5538 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5539 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5540 for more flexibility.
5542 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5543 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5544 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5546 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5549 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5550 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5551 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5552 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5553 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5554 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5555 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5556 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5557 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5559 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5560 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5561 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5562 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5563 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5564 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5565 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5567 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5568 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5569 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5571 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5572 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5573 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5574 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5575 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5576 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5577 instead of killing the process with assert().
5579 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5580 than Unicode encoding.
5582 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5583 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5584 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5585 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5587 77. Added process_log_path.
5589 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5590 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5592 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5593 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5595 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5596 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5597 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5599 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5600 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5601 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5602 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5603 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5606 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5607 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5610 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5611 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5612 they will be used during message reception.
5618 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.