1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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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.
137 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
138 assignment on my part. Fixed.
140 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
141 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
142 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
144 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
145 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
146 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
149 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
150 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
152 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
153 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
154 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
155 needs to override this, it can.
157 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
158 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
159 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
161 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
162 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
163 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
164 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
166 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
168 PP/40 Lower default size of EXIM_CLIENT_DH_MIN_BITS constant (used only by
169 GnuTLS at this time) from 1024 to 512. Cautious folk can override
176 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
177 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
179 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
181 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
184 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
185 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
187 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
188 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
189 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
191 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
192 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
193 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
194 not safe for signals.
196 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
197 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
198 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
199 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
202 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
204 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
205 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
206 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
207 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
208 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
210 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
211 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
212 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
213 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
214 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
215 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
217 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
218 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
219 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
220 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
222 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
223 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
224 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
225 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
227 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
228 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
229 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
230 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
231 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
232 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
233 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
234 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
235 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
237 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
238 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
239 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
240 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
242 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
243 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
244 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
245 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
246 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
247 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
248 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
249 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
250 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
251 details in the main documentation.
253 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
255 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
257 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
258 repository when doing development or release builds.
260 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
261 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
263 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
264 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
267 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
269 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
270 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
272 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
273 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
275 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
276 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
278 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
279 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
281 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
282 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
284 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
286 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
289 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
290 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
291 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
293 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
295 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
297 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
298 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
304 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
306 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
307 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
309 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
311 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
313 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
316 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
317 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
319 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
320 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
322 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
325 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
328 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
329 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
331 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
332 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
333 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
334 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
336 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
337 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
343 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
346 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
347 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
348 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
350 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
351 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
353 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
354 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
355 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
357 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
358 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
360 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
361 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
363 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
364 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
366 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
367 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
369 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
370 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
372 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
375 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
376 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
378 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
379 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
381 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
382 SQL string expansion failure details.
383 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
385 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
386 Patch from Simon Arlott.
388 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
389 extern declarations in function scope.
390 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
392 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
393 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
394 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
397 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
398 Patch from Mark Zealey.
400 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
401 Patch from Mark Zealey.
403 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
404 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
406 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
407 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
409 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
410 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
413 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
415 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
417 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
418 Patch by Simon Arlott
420 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
421 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
427 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
428 consequences so log it to the panic log.
430 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
431 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
433 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
435 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
436 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
437 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
439 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
440 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
441 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
443 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
444 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
445 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
446 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
448 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
449 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
450 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
451 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
453 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
454 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
455 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
458 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
461 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
462 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
463 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
464 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
465 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
471 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
472 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
473 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
475 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
476 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
478 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
480 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
482 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
484 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
486 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
488 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
489 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
490 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
491 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
493 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
494 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
495 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
496 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
497 more caution in buffer sizes.
499 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
501 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
503 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
505 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
507 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
509 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
511 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
513 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
514 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
515 ignore trailing whitespace.
517 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
519 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
522 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
523 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
525 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
526 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
527 Notification from John Horne.
529 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
532 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
533 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
536 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
539 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
540 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
541 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
543 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
544 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
545 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
548 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
549 option (effectively making it always true).
551 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
552 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
554 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
555 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
557 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
558 run-time user, instead of root.
560 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
561 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
563 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
564 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
567 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
568 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
569 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
571 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
573 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
579 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
580 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
583 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
584 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
587 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
588 Patch from Alain Williams
590 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
592 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
593 Patch from Andreas Metzler
595 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
596 Patch from Kirill Miazine
598 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
600 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
602 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
603 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
605 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
607 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
609 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
610 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
611 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
613 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
614 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
616 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
617 Patch by Simon Arlott
619 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
620 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
626 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
628 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
630 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
632 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
634 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
640 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
641 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
643 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
644 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
647 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
648 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
649 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
651 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
652 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
654 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
655 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
656 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
657 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
659 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
660 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
661 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
663 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
665 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
667 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
668 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
670 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
672 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
673 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
674 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
675 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
677 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
678 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
680 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
682 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
684 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
685 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
687 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
688 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
690 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
691 that they are available at delivery time.
693 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
695 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
696 incoming_port log selectors.
698 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
699 setting expands to an empty string.
701 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
702 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
704 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
705 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
707 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
708 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
710 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
711 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
713 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
714 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
716 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
717 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
719 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
721 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
722 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
724 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
725 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
727 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
729 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
730 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
732 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
734 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
736 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
739 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
740 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
742 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
743 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
745 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
746 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
748 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
749 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
751 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
752 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
754 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
755 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
757 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
758 plus update to original patch.
760 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
762 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
763 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
765 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
767 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
769 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
771 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
773 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
774 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
776 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
777 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
779 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
780 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
782 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
783 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
785 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
787 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
789 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
791 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
797 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
798 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
799 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
801 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
802 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
803 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
804 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
805 build errors in sieve.c.
807 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
808 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
809 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
811 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
813 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
815 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
817 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
823 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
825 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
826 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
827 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
828 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
829 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
830 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
831 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
832 for iplsearch lookups.
834 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
835 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
836 previously such lookups could never work.
838 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
839 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
840 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
842 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
845 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
846 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
847 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
848 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
849 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
850 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
852 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
853 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
855 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
856 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
857 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
858 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
859 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
860 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
862 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
865 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
867 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
868 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
871 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
872 by clients under certain conditions.
874 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
875 "_responses" off the end of the name.
877 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
879 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
880 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
882 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
884 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
886 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
888 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
889 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
891 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
893 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
894 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
896 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
898 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
900 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
901 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
902 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
903 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
905 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
906 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
907 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
909 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
910 and InterBase are left for another time.)
912 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
914 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
916 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
918 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
919 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
920 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
926 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
927 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
930 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
931 issue a MAIL command.
933 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
935 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
937 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
938 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
939 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
940 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
941 item. This has been fixed.
943 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
944 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
946 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
947 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
949 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
950 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
951 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
953 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
955 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
956 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
957 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
958 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
959 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
961 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
962 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
963 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
965 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
966 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
967 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
968 the server_setid option was incorrect.
970 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
972 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
974 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
975 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
976 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
977 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
978 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
980 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
982 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
983 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
984 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
987 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
989 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
991 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
993 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
995 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
997 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
998 no_callout_flush is set.
1000 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1001 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1002 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1005 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1007 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1008 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1009 other ACL rejections are.
1011 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1012 with slight modification.
1014 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1015 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1017 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1018 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1021 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1022 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1024 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1026 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1027 expansion side effects.
1029 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1030 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1031 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1034 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1035 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1036 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1038 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1039 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1040 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1041 were accidentally chopped off.
1043 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1044 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1045 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1046 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1047 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1048 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1049 pipelining has not been advertised.
1051 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1053 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1054 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1055 This has been fixed.
1057 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1058 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1059 reported on Solaris.
1061 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1062 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1063 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1064 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1065 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1066 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1067 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1069 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1072 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1074 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1076 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1077 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1078 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1079 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1080 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1081 criteria to be more general.
1083 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1084 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1085 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1086 host_all_ignored option.
1088 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1089 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1090 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1091 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1092 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1093 is what is supposed to happen).
1095 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1096 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1097 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1098 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1099 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1102 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1103 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1104 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1105 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1106 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1107 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1110 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1112 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1113 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1115 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1116 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1118 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1120 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1122 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1123 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1124 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1125 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1126 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1127 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1128 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1129 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1130 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1131 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1132 least in a lot of common cases.
1134 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1135 advertised in response to EHLO.
1141 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1142 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1144 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1145 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1147 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1148 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1149 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1151 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1152 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1153 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1154 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1155 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1161 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1162 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1165 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1166 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1167 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1169 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1170 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1171 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1172 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1173 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1174 rather than extend the field.
1180 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1181 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1182 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1183 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1186 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1187 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1188 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1190 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1191 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1192 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1194 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1195 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1196 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1199 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1200 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1201 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1202 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1203 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1204 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1205 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1206 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1207 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1208 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1209 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1211 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1214 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1215 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1216 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1217 ignores EPIPE as well.
1219 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1220 (quoted-printable decoding).
1222 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1223 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1225 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1227 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1229 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1231 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1232 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1234 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1237 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1238 miscellaneous code fixes
1240 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1243 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1244 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1245 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1246 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1247 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1248 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1249 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1250 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1252 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1253 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1254 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1255 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1257 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1258 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1259 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1260 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1261 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1262 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1263 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1264 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1265 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1267 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1270 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1271 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1272 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1273 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1274 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1275 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1276 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1277 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1279 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1280 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1283 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1284 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1285 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1286 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1287 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1288 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1289 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1290 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1291 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1292 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1293 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1294 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1295 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1297 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1298 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1299 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1300 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1301 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1302 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1303 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1305 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1306 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1307 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1308 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1309 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1310 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1311 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1312 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1313 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1314 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1316 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1317 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1318 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1319 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1320 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1322 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1323 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1324 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1325 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1326 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1327 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1328 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1330 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1331 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1332 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1333 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1334 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1335 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1338 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1339 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1340 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1343 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1344 if any retry times were supplied.
1346 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1347 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1348 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1350 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1352 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1354 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1355 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1356 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1357 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1358 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1359 before) are ignored.
1361 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1362 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1364 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1365 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1366 committing the later change.]
1368 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1369 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1370 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1371 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1372 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1373 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1374 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1375 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1376 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1378 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1379 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1380 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1381 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1382 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1383 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1384 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1385 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1386 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1388 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1389 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1390 hammering the server.
1392 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1393 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1395 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1397 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1398 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1399 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1401 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1402 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1403 one case where this was not true.
1405 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1406 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1407 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1408 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1411 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1412 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1413 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1414 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1415 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1416 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1417 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1418 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1419 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1422 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1423 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1424 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1425 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1427 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1428 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1430 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1431 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1432 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1434 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1436 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1438 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1440 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1441 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1442 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1443 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1445 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1446 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1448 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1449 be meaningful with "accept".
1451 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1452 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1454 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1455 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1456 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1458 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1459 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1460 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1461 there is data to show.
1462 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1464 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1465 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1466 as well as the number of messages.
1468 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1469 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1470 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1472 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1473 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1474 have a flag are now skipped.
1476 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1477 Added the -emptyok flag.
1479 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1480 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1482 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1483 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1484 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1486 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1489 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1490 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1492 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1494 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1495 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1497 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1499 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1500 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1501 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1502 contravention of the specifications.
1504 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1505 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1506 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1508 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1509 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1510 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1512 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1514 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1515 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1516 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1517 some point in the past.
1519 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1520 transport during callout processing was broken.
1522 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1523 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1525 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1526 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1528 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1529 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1531 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1537 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1538 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1540 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1541 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1542 there is data to show.
1543 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1545 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1546 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1548 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1549 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1551 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1552 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1554 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1555 submissions from trusted users.
1557 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1558 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1560 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1561 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1562 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1563 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1564 there is now a framework to start from.
1566 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1567 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1568 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1570 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1572 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1574 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1576 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1577 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1578 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1580 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1583 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1584 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1585 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1587 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1588 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1589 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1592 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1593 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1594 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1595 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1596 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1598 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1599 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1601 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1603 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1604 operations in malware.c.
1606 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1609 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1610 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1611 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1614 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1615 statements to "add_header".
1617 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1618 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1620 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1621 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1624 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1628 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1629 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1630 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1633 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1634 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1636 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1637 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1639 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1640 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1641 any possible encoding problems.
1643 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1644 but not after initializing Perl.
1646 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1647 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1648 apparently, which is not desirable.
1650 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1653 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1656 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1658 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1659 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1660 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1661 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1663 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1664 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1665 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1667 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1668 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1669 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1672 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1673 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1674 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1675 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1676 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1682 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1683 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1685 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1688 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1689 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1690 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1691 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1692 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1693 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1694 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1695 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1698 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1700 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1701 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1702 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1704 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1705 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1706 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1709 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1710 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1712 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1713 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1714 option (which defaults to 0600).
1716 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1718 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1719 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1720 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1721 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1722 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1723 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1724 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1726 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1732 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1733 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1734 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1735 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1736 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1737 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1740 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1741 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1743 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1745 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1746 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1747 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1748 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1749 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1752 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1753 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1755 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1756 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1757 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1758 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1759 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1761 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1762 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1763 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1764 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1766 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1767 be the same on different OS.
1769 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1772 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1773 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1775 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1778 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1779 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1780 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1781 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1782 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1783 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1786 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1787 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1788 when Exim was called.
1790 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1791 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1793 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1794 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1795 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1796 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1798 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1799 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1800 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1801 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1804 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1805 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1806 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1808 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1809 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1810 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1812 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1815 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1816 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1817 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1818 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1819 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1820 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1821 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1822 values from the SRV records were lost.
1824 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1825 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1826 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1828 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1829 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1830 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1832 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1833 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1834 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1835 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1836 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1837 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1838 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1839 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1840 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1841 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1843 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1844 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1845 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1847 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1848 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1850 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1851 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1852 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1853 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1856 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1857 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1858 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1860 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1861 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1862 PH/23 above applies.
1864 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1865 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1866 (for which there is an explicit test).
1868 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1870 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1871 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1872 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1873 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1874 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1876 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1877 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1878 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1879 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1881 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1882 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1883 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1885 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1887 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1889 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1890 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1891 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1893 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1894 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1895 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1896 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1897 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1899 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1900 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1901 the message gets confusing).
1903 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1904 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1905 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1906 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1908 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1909 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1910 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1911 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1914 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1915 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1916 the different processes.
1918 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1920 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1922 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1923 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1925 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1926 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1928 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1929 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1930 messages matching specified criteria.
1932 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1934 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1935 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1937 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1938 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1939 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1940 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1941 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1942 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1943 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1944 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1945 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1946 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1948 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1949 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1950 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1952 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1954 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1955 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1956 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1957 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1958 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1959 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1960 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1963 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1964 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1966 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1968 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1970 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1972 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1973 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1974 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1975 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1976 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1977 size of the count of files.
1979 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1981 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1984 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1985 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1986 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1987 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1989 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1990 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1991 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1993 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1994 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1995 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1996 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1997 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1999 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2000 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2002 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2003 will now be deprecated.
2005 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2007 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2008 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2009 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2011 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2012 with very large, slow to parse queues
2014 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2016 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2018 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2019 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2020 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2023 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2024 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2025 Sieve code now uses this.
2027 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2028 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2030 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2031 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2033 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2035 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2036 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2037 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2038 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2039 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2041 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2042 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2043 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2044 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2046 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2048 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2050 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2051 is preferred over IPv4.
2053 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2054 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2055 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2056 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2057 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2058 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2059 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2061 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2062 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2063 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2065 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2067 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2068 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2069 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2070 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2071 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2072 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2073 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2074 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2075 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2076 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2077 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2079 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2080 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2081 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2087 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2089 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2090 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2092 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2093 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2094 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2096 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2098 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2101 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2104 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2105 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2106 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2109 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2110 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2112 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2113 inside the third argument.
2115 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2116 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2119 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2120 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2122 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2123 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2125 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2127 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2128 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2131 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2133 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2134 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2135 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2136 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2137 identical. For example:
2139 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2141 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2142 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2143 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2145 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2146 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2147 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2148 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2150 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2151 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2152 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2155 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2157 o fixes some comments
2158 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2159 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2160 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2161 and documents the missing references header update
2165 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2166 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2169 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2170 Electronic Mail") by including:
2172 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2174 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2175 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2176 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2177 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2178 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2180 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2182 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2184 The auto-replied keyword:
2186 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2187 message by an automatic process,
2189 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2191 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2192 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2194 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2195 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2198 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2199 to the default Received: header definition.
2201 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2203 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2204 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2205 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2207 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2208 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2209 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2211 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2212 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2213 and treats the condition as false.
2215 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2217 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2218 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2219 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2220 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2221 not changing the active code.
2223 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2224 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2226 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2227 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2229 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2232 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2233 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2234 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2235 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2236 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2237 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2238 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2239 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2240 the text comparison.
2242 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2243 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2244 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2245 The same fix has been applied.
2251 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2252 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2255 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2256 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2258 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2260 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2261 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2262 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2263 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2264 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2266 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2267 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2268 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2269 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2272 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2280 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2281 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2283 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2285 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2287 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2288 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2289 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2291 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2292 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2293 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2295 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2296 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2299 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2300 ${stat: expansion item.
2302 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2303 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2305 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2306 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2309 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2311 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2314 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2315 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2317 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2319 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2320 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2321 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2322 the end of the subprocess.
2324 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2325 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2326 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2327 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2328 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2330 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2332 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2334 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2335 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2337 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2339 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2341 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2342 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2345 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2347 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2348 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2349 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2351 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2352 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2354 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2355 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2357 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2358 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2360 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2361 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2363 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2364 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2365 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2366 contributed by a Radius user.
2368 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2369 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2371 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2372 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2374 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2377 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2378 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2381 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2382 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2383 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2384 header lines when this was not necessary.
2386 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2388 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2389 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2390 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2393 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2396 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2397 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2398 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2399 return code was incorrect.
2401 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2403 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2405 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2407 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2409 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2410 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2411 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2412 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2413 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2416 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2418 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2419 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2420 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2421 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2422 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2423 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2424 which is clearly wrong.
2426 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2428 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2429 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2430 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2433 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2434 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2436 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2438 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2439 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2441 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2442 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2444 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2445 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2447 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2448 recipients, not senders.
2450 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2451 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2453 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2455 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2457 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2458 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2459 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2460 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2462 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2464 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2465 clock is set back in time.
2467 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2468 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2470 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2471 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2473 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2474 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2477 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2478 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2481 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2484 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2486 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2487 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2488 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2490 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2491 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2492 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2493 helo verification defer as a failure.
2495 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2496 actual error message.
2502 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2504 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2505 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2506 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2507 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2509 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2511 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2512 can still be requested.
2514 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2515 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2516 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2517 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2519 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2520 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2521 circumstances, but probably never did.
2523 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2524 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2525 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2528 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2530 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2531 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2533 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2535 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2537 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2538 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2539 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2540 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2541 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2542 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2544 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2545 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2546 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2547 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2548 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2549 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2551 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2552 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2554 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2555 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2557 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2558 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2560 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2562 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2564 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2566 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2568 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2570 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2572 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2574 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2575 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2576 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2578 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2579 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2580 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2581 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2583 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2584 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2585 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2587 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2588 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2589 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2590 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2592 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2593 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2596 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2597 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2598 should work with maildirs and everything.
2600 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2601 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2603 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2606 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2607 function for BDB 4.3.
2609 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2611 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2612 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2615 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2616 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2617 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2618 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2619 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2620 formatting function string_vformat().
2622 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2623 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2624 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2625 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2626 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2627 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2628 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2629 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2631 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2632 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2635 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2636 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2638 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2639 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2640 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2641 test. It is now used for both.
2643 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2644 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2645 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2646 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2647 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2648 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2650 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2651 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2652 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2655 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2656 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2657 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2659 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2660 experimental DomainKeys support:
2662 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2663 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2664 the control was given.
2666 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2668 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2670 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2672 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2673 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2674 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2677 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2678 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2679 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2680 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2681 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2682 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2685 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2686 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2687 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2688 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2689 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2690 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2692 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2693 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2694 do -d+all out of habit.
2696 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2697 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2700 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2701 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2702 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2703 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2704 record types that Exim uses.
2706 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2707 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2708 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2709 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2710 non-existent file that was broken.
2712 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2713 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2715 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2716 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2717 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2719 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2721 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2722 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2723 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2724 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2725 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2728 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2729 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2730 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2731 at a slight CPU cost.
2733 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2734 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2736 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2739 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2741 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2742 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2748 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2749 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2751 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2753 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2755 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2756 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2758 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2759 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2760 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2761 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2762 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2763 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2766 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2767 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2768 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2769 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2772 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2773 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2774 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2775 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2776 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2777 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2778 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2781 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2782 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2784 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2785 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2786 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2787 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2788 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2789 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2791 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2792 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2793 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2794 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2796 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2799 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2800 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2802 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2803 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2804 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2805 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2808 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2810 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2811 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2813 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2814 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2815 to what was transported.)
2817 TF/01 Added $received_time.
2819 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2820 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2821 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2822 spamd_address settings.
2824 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2825 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2826 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2827 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2828 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2830 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2832 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2833 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2834 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2835 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2836 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2838 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2839 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2841 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2842 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2843 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2844 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2845 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2846 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2847 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2850 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2851 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2852 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2853 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2854 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2855 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2856 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2859 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2861 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2862 driver and ACL definitions.
2864 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2865 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2867 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2868 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2869 understands it better than I do:
2871 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2872 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2874 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2875 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2876 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2877 => three warnings about OTP not working
2878 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2880 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2881 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2882 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2883 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2885 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2886 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2888 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2889 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2890 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2892 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2893 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2896 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2897 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2900 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2901 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2902 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2904 warn !verify = sender
2905 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2907 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2908 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2910 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2912 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2913 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2915 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2916 nomenclature these days.)
2918 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2919 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2921 PH/30 In these circumstances:
2922 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2923 . First host does not offer TLS;
2924 . First host accepts first address;
2925 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2926 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2927 . Second host accepts second address.
2928 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2929 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2932 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2933 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2934 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2935 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2936 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2938 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2939 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2941 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2942 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2944 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2945 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2946 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2948 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2949 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2952 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2954 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2955 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2956 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2957 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2958 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2959 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2960 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2962 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2963 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2964 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2965 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2966 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2968 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2969 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2972 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2973 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2974 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2975 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2976 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2977 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2979 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2981 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2982 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2983 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2984 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2985 printable escape sequences.
2987 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2988 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2991 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2992 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2995 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2996 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2997 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2998 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2999 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3001 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3002 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3003 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3005 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3007 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3008 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3011 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3012 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3013 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3014 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3015 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3016 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3017 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3018 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3019 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3022 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3023 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3024 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3025 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3029 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3030 ----------------------------------------
3032 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3033 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3034 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3035 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3036 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3037 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3040 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3041 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3042 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3043 historical information.
3049 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3051 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3052 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3054 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3055 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3058 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3059 filter fails to execute.
3061 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3062 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3063 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3064 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3065 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3067 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3069 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3070 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3071 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3072 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3074 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3075 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3076 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3077 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3078 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3080 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3082 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3084 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3085 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3086 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3087 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3089 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3090 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3091 sender verification.
3093 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3094 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3096 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3098 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3101 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3102 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3104 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3105 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3107 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3108 information about exactly what failed.
3110 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3112 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3113 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3114 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3116 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3117 It is now set to "smtps".
3119 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3120 ignore_target_hosts.
3122 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3123 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3124 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3125 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3128 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3129 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3130 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3132 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3133 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3134 wake it up if nothing else does.
3136 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3137 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3138 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3141 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3142 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3144 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3146 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3147 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3148 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3149 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3150 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3151 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3152 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3153 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3155 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3156 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3157 than one IP address.
3159 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3160 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3161 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3162 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3164 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3165 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3166 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3167 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3168 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3171 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3172 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3173 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3174 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3176 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3177 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3180 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3181 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3182 $sender_host_address.
3184 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3185 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3186 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3187 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3188 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3191 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3193 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3194 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3196 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3197 just the host names, not the priorities.
3199 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3200 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3201 controlled by a keyword.
3203 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3204 multiple records are returned.
3206 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3207 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3210 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3212 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3213 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3215 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3216 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3217 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3219 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3221 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3223 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3225 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3226 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3227 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3228 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3229 because the tests only now provoked it.
3231 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3232 (this can affect the format of dates).
3234 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3235 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3236 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3237 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3239 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3241 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3242 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3243 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3244 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3246 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3247 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3248 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3250 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3253 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3254 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3255 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3256 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3257 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3258 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3261 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3262 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3263 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3266 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3267 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3268 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3270 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3271 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3272 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3273 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3274 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3275 so I produce this patch..."
3277 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3278 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3281 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3282 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3283 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3284 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3287 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3289 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3290 long debug lines gets shown.
3292 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3293 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3295 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3297 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3298 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3299 of $primary_hostname.
3301 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3302 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3303 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3304 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3305 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3306 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3307 by change 4.50/55 above.
3309 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3310 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3311 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3312 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3313 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3314 running as the user.
3317 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3318 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3319 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3322 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3323 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3325 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3326 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3327 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3328 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3329 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3331 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3332 This has been fixed.
3334 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3335 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3336 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3337 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3340 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3342 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3343 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3344 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3345 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3347 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3348 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3350 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3351 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3352 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3354 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3355 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3356 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3359 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3360 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3361 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3363 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3364 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3365 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3366 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3368 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3369 during host lookups.
3371 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3372 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3374 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3376 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3377 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3378 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3379 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3380 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3383 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3384 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3386 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3387 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3388 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3390 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3392 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3393 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3394 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3395 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3396 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3397 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3400 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3401 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3402 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3403 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3404 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3406 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3409 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3411 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3412 "vacation" handling.
3414 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3415 OS variants using glibc.
3417 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3420 ----------------------------------------------------
3421 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3422 ----------------------------------------------------
3428 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3429 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3432 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3433 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3436 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3437 filter fails to execute.
3439 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3440 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3441 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3442 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3443 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3445 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3446 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3447 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3448 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3450 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3451 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3452 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3453 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3454 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3456 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3458 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3459 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3460 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3461 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3463 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3464 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3465 sender verification.
3467 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3468 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3470 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3471 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3473 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3474 ignore_target_hosts.
3476 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3477 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3478 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3479 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3482 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3483 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3484 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3486 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3487 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3488 wake it up if nothing else does.
3490 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3491 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3492 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3495 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3496 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3498 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3500 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3501 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3504 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3505 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3508 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3509 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3510 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3511 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3512 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3515 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3516 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3519 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3520 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3521 $sender_host_address.
3523 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3525 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3526 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3527 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3529 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3532 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3533 (this can affect the format of dates).
3535 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3536 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3537 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3538 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3540 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3541 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3542 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3544 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3545 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3546 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3547 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3549 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3550 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3551 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3553 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3556 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3557 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3558 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3559 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3560 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3561 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3564 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3565 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3566 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3567 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3570 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3571 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3572 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3573 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3574 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3575 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3576 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3578 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3579 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3580 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3581 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3582 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3583 running as the user.
3586 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3587 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3588 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3591 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3592 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3593 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3594 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3595 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3597 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3598 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3599 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3600 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3603 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3604 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3605 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3606 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3607 because the tests only now provoked it.
3613 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3614 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3615 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3616 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3617 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3618 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3619 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3621 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3622 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3625 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3627 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3629 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3630 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3633 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3634 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3635 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3636 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3637 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3639 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3640 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3642 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3644 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3646 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3649 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3650 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3652 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3653 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3654 affecting debugging statements).
3656 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3658 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3659 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3660 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3661 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3662 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3663 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3664 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3665 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3666 after the received time, and all would be well.
3668 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3669 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3670 condition in an expansion string.
3672 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3674 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3675 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3676 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3677 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3678 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3679 job under whatever limits there are.
3681 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3683 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3686 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3687 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3688 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3689 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3692 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3693 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3694 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3695 binary data in such strings.
3697 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3699 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3700 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3701 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3702 failure, which is pointless.
3704 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3706 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3708 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3709 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3710 Sender: header lines.
3712 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3713 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3714 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3716 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3717 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3718 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3719 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3720 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3723 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3724 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3725 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3726 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3727 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3729 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3730 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3731 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3734 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3735 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3737 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3738 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3740 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3742 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3744 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3746 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3749 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3751 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3753 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3754 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3755 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3756 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3758 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3759 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3765 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3766 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3767 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3769 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3770 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3771 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3772 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3773 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3774 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3776 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3777 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3778 verification failure".
3780 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3781 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3782 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3783 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3785 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3786 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3787 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3788 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3789 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3790 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3791 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3792 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3793 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3794 treated as a timeout.
3796 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3797 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3798 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3799 not set for Exim filters).
3801 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3802 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3803 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3805 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3807 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3808 try to make them clearer.
3810 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3811 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3813 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3815 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3817 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3818 only the Cygwin environment.
3820 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3821 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3822 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3823 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3824 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3826 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3827 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3828 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3829 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3830 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3831 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3832 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3834 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3835 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3837 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3839 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3840 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3841 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3843 To: susanne@some.where
3845 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3846 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3847 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3848 of addresses in From: header lines).
3850 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3851 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3852 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3854 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3855 treated as non-personal.
3857 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3858 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3860 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3862 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3864 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3865 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3866 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3868 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3869 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3871 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3872 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3873 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3874 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3875 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3876 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3878 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3879 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3880 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3881 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3882 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3883 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3884 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3885 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3887 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3889 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3890 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3892 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3893 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3894 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3896 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3897 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3899 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3900 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3901 rather than long int.
3903 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3905 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3911 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3912 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3913 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3914 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3915 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3916 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3922 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3923 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3925 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3926 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3927 socklen_t is defined.
3929 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3932 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3935 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3936 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3937 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3938 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3939 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3941 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3942 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3943 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3944 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3946 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3947 of flapping under certain conditions.
3949 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3950 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3951 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3953 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3955 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3957 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3958 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3959 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3960 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3962 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3963 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3964 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3965 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3966 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3967 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3968 preserved with the message after it was received.
3970 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3971 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3972 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3973 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3974 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3975 test suite worked just fine.
3977 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3978 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3979 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3981 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3982 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3985 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3986 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3987 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3988 does not fully solve it.
3990 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3991 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3992 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3993 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3994 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3996 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3997 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3998 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4000 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4001 string, for example:
4003 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4005 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4006 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4007 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4008 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4009 the routers could not see them.
4011 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4012 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4014 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4015 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4018 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4019 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4020 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4021 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4022 that needed quoting.
4024 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4025 was not being matched caselessly.
4027 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4030 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4031 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4032 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4033 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4034 when use_sender is false.
4036 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4038 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4040 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4042 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4043 the configuration file.
4045 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4046 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4048 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4050 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4051 bytes in the message body.
4053 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4054 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4057 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4059 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4061 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4062 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4063 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4064 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4071 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4072 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4074 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4075 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4076 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4077 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4078 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4080 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4081 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4083 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4084 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4085 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4087 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4088 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4089 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4091 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4094 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4095 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4096 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4097 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4098 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4099 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4100 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4106 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4107 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4108 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4109 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4110 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4111 default (and expected) setting.
4113 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4114 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4115 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4116 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4118 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4119 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4121 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4124 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4125 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4126 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4127 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4128 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4129 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4131 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4132 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4133 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4135 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4136 part (NOT match_host).
4138 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4140 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4141 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4142 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4143 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4144 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4145 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4146 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4147 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4148 the same named file.
4150 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4151 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4154 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4155 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4156 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4157 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4160 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4161 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4162 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4164 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4166 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4168 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4170 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4171 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4173 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4174 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4175 before starting the TLS session.
4177 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4179 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4180 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4182 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4183 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4184 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4185 colon in the middle).
4191 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4192 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4193 multiple configurations are in use.
4195 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4196 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4197 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4198 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4199 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4200 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4202 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4203 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4205 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4206 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4207 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4209 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4210 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4213 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4214 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4216 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4218 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4219 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4221 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4229 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4230 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4231 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4232 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4233 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4235 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4238 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4239 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4240 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4241 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4242 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4243 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4245 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4246 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4247 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4248 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4249 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4250 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4251 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4254 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4255 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4256 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4257 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4258 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4260 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4262 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4263 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4264 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4266 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4268 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4269 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4270 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4273 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4274 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4276 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4277 Three changes have been made:
4279 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4280 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4281 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4282 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4283 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4285 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4288 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4289 the modified behaviour.
4295 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4298 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4299 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4301 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4302 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4303 try to track down a specific problem.
4305 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4306 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4307 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4309 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4312 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4313 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4314 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4315 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4316 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4317 some earlier ones do not.
4319 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4321 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4322 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4323 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4324 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4325 address literals are enabled, of course).
4327 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4329 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4330 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4331 by a command such as
4335 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4337 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4339 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4340 remained set. It is now erased.
4342 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4343 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4345 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4346 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4347 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4348 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4349 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4350 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4351 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4352 appropriate error code.
4354 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4355 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4356 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4357 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4358 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4359 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4361 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4362 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4363 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4365 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4366 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4367 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4368 terminate the header.
4370 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4371 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4372 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4374 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4375 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4376 (4.30/29). In particular:
4378 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4381 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4382 to write a maildirsize file.
4384 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4385 the transport, the new value overrides.
4387 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4390 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4391 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4392 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4395 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4396 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4397 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4400 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4401 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4402 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4404 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4405 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4408 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4409 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4410 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4412 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4414 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4416 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4418 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4419 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4422 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4423 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4424 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4425 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4426 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4427 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4428 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4431 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4432 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4433 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4434 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4435 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4438 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4439 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4440 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4441 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4442 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4443 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4444 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4445 cached value only when the same options are set.
4447 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4449 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4450 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4451 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4452 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4453 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4455 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4456 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4457 it is clearly obsolete.
4459 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4462 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4463 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4464 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4467 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4468 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4469 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4470 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4471 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4473 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4474 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4475 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4476 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4478 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4480 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4482 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4483 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4486 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4487 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4488 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4489 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4490 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4491 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4494 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4495 with the -f command-line option.
4497 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4498 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4499 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4500 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4501 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4502 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4504 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4505 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4508 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4509 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4510 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4511 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4512 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4513 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4514 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4515 buffer is too small.
4517 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4518 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4520 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4521 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4522 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4523 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4524 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4525 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4526 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4527 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4528 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4530 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4531 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4532 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4534 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4535 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4538 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4539 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4540 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4541 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4542 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4544 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4545 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4546 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4547 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4550 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4552 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4554 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4555 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4557 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4558 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4559 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4561 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4562 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4563 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4564 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4565 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4567 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4568 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4569 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4570 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4571 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4572 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4573 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4575 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4576 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4577 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4578 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4579 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4580 the test of how many are available.
4582 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4583 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4584 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4585 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4586 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4587 new message is started.
4589 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4590 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4592 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4593 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4595 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4596 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4597 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4600 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4601 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4602 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4603 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4604 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4605 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4606 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4608 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4609 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4610 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4611 interpreted as octal.
4613 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4616 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4617 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4618 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4619 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4620 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4621 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4623 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4624 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4625 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4626 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4628 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4629 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4630 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4631 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4633 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4634 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4637 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4638 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4640 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4642 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4643 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4644 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4645 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4647 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4648 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4649 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4650 supplied", which is not helpful.
4652 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4653 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4654 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4656 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4657 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4658 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4659 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4660 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4661 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4662 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4663 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4665 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4666 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4667 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4668 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4669 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4671 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4672 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4673 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4674 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4675 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4676 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4678 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4679 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4680 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4682 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4684 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4685 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4686 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4689 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4691 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4692 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4693 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4694 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4695 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4696 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4697 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4698 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4700 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4701 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4702 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4703 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4704 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4706 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4709 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4710 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4711 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4712 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4713 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4714 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4715 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4716 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4717 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4723 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4724 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4725 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4727 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4730 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4731 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4732 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4734 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4735 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4736 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4737 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4738 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4739 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4741 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4742 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4743 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4744 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4745 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4746 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4747 the Exim test suite.
4749 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4750 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4751 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4752 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4754 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4755 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4756 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4757 specify it in this variable.
4759 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4760 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4761 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4762 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4764 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4765 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4766 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4767 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4769 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4770 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4771 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4772 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4773 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4775 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4777 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4780 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4781 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4782 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4783 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4784 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4786 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4787 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4789 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4790 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4791 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4792 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4793 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4795 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4796 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4798 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4799 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4800 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4802 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4803 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4805 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4806 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4808 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4809 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4810 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4812 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4813 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4815 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4816 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4817 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4818 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4820 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4822 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4823 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4824 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4825 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4827 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4829 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4830 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4832 25. Added .include_if_exists.
4834 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4835 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4836 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4837 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4838 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4839 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4841 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4843 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4844 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4847 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4849 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4850 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4852 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4853 550 Sender verify failed
4855 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4856 the final line of the response.
4858 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4859 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4860 all other user lookups.
4862 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4865 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4866 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4867 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4868 result into an int without checking.
4870 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4871 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4872 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4874 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4875 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4876 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4877 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4879 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4882 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4883 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4885 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4886 to the empty sender.
4888 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4889 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4890 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4891 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4892 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4893 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4894 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4897 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4898 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4899 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4900 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4903 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4904 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4906 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4909 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4910 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4912 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4914 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4915 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4918 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4919 as soon as it is encountered.
4921 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4923 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4926 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4927 recognizes a tab character.
4929 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4930 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4931 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4932 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4934 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4936 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4939 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4941 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4943 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4944 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4947 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4948 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4949 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4950 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4951 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4953 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4954 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4956 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4957 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4958 list (.included file names were always shown).
4960 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4961 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4962 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4965 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4966 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4968 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4970 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4972 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4974 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4975 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4976 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4977 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4978 failures to open the logs.
4980 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4981 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4982 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4983 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4984 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4985 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4986 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4992 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4993 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4994 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4997 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4998 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4999 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5001 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5002 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5003 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5005 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5006 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5007 causing some misleading effects.
5009 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5010 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5011 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5013 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5014 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5015 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5016 queue-runner function directly.
5022 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5025 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5026 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5027 was always written to the default place.
5029 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5030 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5031 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5033 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5035 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5037 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5038 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5039 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5041 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5042 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5045 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5046 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5047 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5049 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5050 command line option is disabled.
5052 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5053 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5055 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5057 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5059 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5060 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5062 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5064 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5065 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5066 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5067 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5068 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5069 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5071 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5072 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5075 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5076 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5078 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5079 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5081 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5082 received was valid base64.
5084 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5085 name of the variable that was being set.
5087 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5089 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5090 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5091 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5092 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5093 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5094 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5096 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5098 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5099 nor realm was specified.
5101 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5102 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5103 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5104 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5106 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5107 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5108 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5110 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5111 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5112 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5114 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5115 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5116 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5117 some systems use these upper case variants.
5119 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5120 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5121 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5122 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5124 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5126 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5127 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5129 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5130 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5133 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5135 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5136 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5137 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5138 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5140 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5143 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5144 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5145 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5147 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5148 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5150 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5151 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5152 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5153 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5155 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5156 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5157 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5159 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5161 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5162 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5163 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5164 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5167 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5168 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5169 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5171 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5173 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5174 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5176 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5177 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5179 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5180 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5181 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5182 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5183 when emails are that large.
5190 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5191 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5193 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5194 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5195 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5197 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5198 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5199 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5201 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5202 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5203 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5204 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5205 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5207 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5208 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5209 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5210 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5211 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5214 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5215 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5216 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5217 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5218 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5219 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5220 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5221 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5222 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5223 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5224 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5225 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5226 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5227 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5229 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5230 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5233 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5234 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5235 error should be diagnosed.
5237 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5238 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5239 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5240 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5241 appeared instead of "NULL".
5243 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5244 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5245 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5246 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5247 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5248 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5251 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5252 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5253 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5259 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5260 or receiver verification errors.
5262 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5265 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5266 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5267 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5268 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5270 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5271 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5272 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5273 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5274 shouldn't happen again.
5276 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5277 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5278 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5280 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5281 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5283 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5285 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5286 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5288 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5289 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5292 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5293 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5294 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5296 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5297 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5298 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5299 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5301 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5302 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5303 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5304 to define what should happen).
5306 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5307 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5308 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5310 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5312 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5314 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5315 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5317 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5318 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5319 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5320 structure in all cases.
5322 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5323 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5324 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5325 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5327 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5328 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5331 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5332 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5334 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5335 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5337 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5338 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5339 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5341 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5342 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5343 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5345 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5346 the book and for uniformity.
5348 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5350 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5351 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5352 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5353 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5354 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5355 non-existent command as the problem.
5357 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5358 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5359 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5361 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5363 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5364 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5365 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5367 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5368 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5369 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5370 timestamps using strftime().
5372 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5373 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5375 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5376 transport-time rewrites.
5378 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5379 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5380 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5381 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5383 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5384 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5386 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5387 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5388 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5389 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5392 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5393 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5394 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5395 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5396 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5397 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5398 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5400 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5401 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5402 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5403 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5404 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5406 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5407 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5408 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5409 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5410 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5411 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5412 remaining text gets split now.
5414 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5415 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5416 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5417 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5419 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5420 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5421 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5422 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5425 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5426 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5427 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5428 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5429 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5430 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5431 passed through if needed.
5433 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5434 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5435 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5436 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5437 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5438 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5440 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5441 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5442 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5443 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5444 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5446 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5447 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5448 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5449 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5450 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5452 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5453 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5456 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5457 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5458 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5459 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5460 mayhem of various kinds.
5462 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5463 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5464 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5465 the right test for positive values.
5467 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5468 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5469 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5470 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5471 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5472 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5473 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5474 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5475 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5476 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5479 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5482 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5483 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5486 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5487 the existing equality matching.
5489 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5490 dealing with inode numbers.
5492 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5493 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5494 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5496 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5497 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5498 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5499 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5502 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5503 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5504 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5505 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5506 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5507 relay addresses has also been removed.
5509 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5511 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5512 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5513 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5515 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5516 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5517 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5518 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5519 processing applies to CR:
5521 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5522 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5524 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5525 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5526 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5527 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5529 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5530 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5531 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5533 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5534 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5535 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5536 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5537 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5538 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5541 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5544 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5545 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5546 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5547 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5550 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5552 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5554 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5556 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5557 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5558 not considered personal.
5560 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5562 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5564 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5566 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5567 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5568 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5569 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5570 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5571 header lines, and spool format errors.
5573 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5574 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5575 for more flexibility.
5577 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5578 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5579 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5581 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5584 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5585 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5586 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5587 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5588 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5589 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5590 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5591 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5592 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5594 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5595 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5596 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5597 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5598 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5599 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5600 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5602 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5603 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5604 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5606 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5607 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5608 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5609 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5610 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5611 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5612 instead of killing the process with assert().
5614 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5615 than Unicode encoding.
5617 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5618 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5619 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5620 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5622 77. Added process_log_path.
5624 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5625 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5627 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5628 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5630 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5631 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5632 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5634 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5635 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5636 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5637 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5638 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5641 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5642 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5645 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5646 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5647 they will be used during message reception.
5653 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.