1 $Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.495 2007/03/14 11:22:23 ph10 Exp $
3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
10 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
13 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
16 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
18 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
20 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
21 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
22 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
23 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
24 item. This has been fixed.
26 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
27 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
29 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
30 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
32 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
33 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
34 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
36 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
38 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
39 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
40 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
41 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
42 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
44 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
45 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
46 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
48 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
49 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
50 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
51 the server_setid option was incorrect.
53 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
55 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
57 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
58 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
59 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
60 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
61 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
63 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
65 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
66 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
67 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
70 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
72 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
74 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
76 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
78 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
80 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
81 no_callout_flush is set.
83 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
84 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
85 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
88 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
90 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
91 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
92 other ACL rejections are.
94 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
95 with slight modification.
97 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
98 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
100 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
101 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
104 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
105 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
107 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
109 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
110 expansion side effects.
112 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
113 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
114 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
117 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
118 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
119 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
121 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
122 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
123 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
124 were accidentally chopped off.
126 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
127 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
128 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
129 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
130 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
131 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
132 pipelining has not been advertised.
134 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
136 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
137 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
140 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
141 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
144 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
145 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
146 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
147 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
148 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
149 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
150 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
152 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
155 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
157 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
159 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
160 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
161 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
162 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
163 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
164 criteria to be more general.
166 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
167 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
168 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
169 host_all_ignored option.
171 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
172 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
173 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
174 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
175 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
176 is what is supposed to happen).
182 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
183 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
185 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
186 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
188 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
189 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
190 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
192 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
193 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
194 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
195 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
196 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
202 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
203 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
206 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
207 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
208 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
210 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
211 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
212 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
213 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
214 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
215 rather than extend the field.
221 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
222 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
223 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
224 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
227 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
228 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
229 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
231 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
232 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
233 hence the _LINUX specificness.
235 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
236 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
237 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
240 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
241 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
242 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
243 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
244 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
245 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
246 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
247 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
248 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
249 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
250 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
252 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
255 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
256 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
257 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
258 ignores EPIPE as well.
260 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
261 (quoted-printable decoding).
263 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
264 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
266 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
268 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
270 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
272 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
273 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
275 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
278 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
279 miscellaneous code fixes
281 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
284 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
285 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
286 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
287 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
288 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
289 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
290 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
291 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
293 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
294 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
295 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
296 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
298 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
299 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
300 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
301 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
302 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
303 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
304 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
305 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
306 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
308 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
311 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
312 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
313 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
314 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
315 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
316 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
317 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
318 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
320 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
321 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
324 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
325 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
326 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
327 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
328 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
329 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
330 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
331 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
332 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
333 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
334 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
335 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
336 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
338 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
339 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
340 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
341 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
342 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
343 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
344 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
346 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
347 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
348 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
349 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
350 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
351 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
352 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
353 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
354 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
355 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
357 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
358 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
359 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
360 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
361 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
363 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
364 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
365 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
366 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
367 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
368 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
369 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
371 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
372 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
373 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
374 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
375 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
376 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
379 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
380 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
381 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
384 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
385 if any retry times were supplied.
387 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
388 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
389 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
391 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
393 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
395 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
396 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
397 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
398 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
399 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
402 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
403 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
405 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
406 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
407 committing the later change.]
409 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
410 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
411 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
412 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
413 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
414 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
415 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
416 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
417 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
419 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
420 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
421 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
422 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
423 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
424 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
425 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
426 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
427 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
429 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
430 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
431 hammering the server.
433 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
434 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
436 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
438 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
439 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
440 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
442 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
443 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
444 one case where this was not true.
446 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
447 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
448 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
449 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
452 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
453 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
454 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
455 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
456 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
457 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
458 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
459 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
460 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
463 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
464 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
465 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
466 same for both kinds of LMTP.
468 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
469 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
471 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
472 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
473 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
475 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
477 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
479 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
481 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
482 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
483 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
484 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
486 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
487 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
489 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
490 be meaningful with "accept".
492 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
493 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
495 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
496 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
497 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
499 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
500 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
501 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
502 there is data to show.
503 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
505 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
506 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
507 as well as the number of messages.
509 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
510 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
511 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
513 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
514 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
515 have a flag are now skipped.
517 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
518 Added the -emptyok flag.
520 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
521 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
523 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
524 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
525 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
527 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
530 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
531 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
533 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
535 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
536 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
538 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
540 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
541 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
542 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
543 contravention of the specifications.
545 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
546 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
547 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
549 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
550 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
551 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
553 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
555 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
556 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
557 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
558 some point in the past.
560 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
561 transport during callout processing was broken.
563 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
564 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
566 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
567 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
569 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
570 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
572 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
578 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
579 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
581 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
582 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
583 there is data to show.
584 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
586 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
587 as the number of messages in eximstats.
589 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
590 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
592 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
593 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
595 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
596 submissions from trusted users.
598 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
599 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
601 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
602 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
603 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
604 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
605 there is now a framework to start from.
607 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
608 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
609 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
611 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
613 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
615 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
617 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
618 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
619 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
621 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
624 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
625 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
626 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
628 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
629 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
630 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
633 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
634 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
635 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
636 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
637 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
639 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
640 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
642 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
644 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
645 operations in malware.c.
647 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
650 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
651 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
652 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
655 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
656 statements to "add_header".
658 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
659 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
661 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
662 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
665 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
669 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
670 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
671 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
674 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
675 don't think Precedence: ever was.
677 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
678 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
680 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
681 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
682 any possible encoding problems.
684 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
685 but not after initializing Perl.
687 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
688 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
689 apparently, which is not desirable.
691 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
694 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
697 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
699 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
700 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
701 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
702 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
704 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
705 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
706 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
708 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
709 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
710 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
713 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
714 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
715 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
716 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
717 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
723 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
724 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
726 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
729 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
730 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
731 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
732 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
733 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
734 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
735 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
736 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
739 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
741 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
742 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
743 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
745 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
746 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
747 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
750 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
751 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
753 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
754 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
755 option (which defaults to 0600).
757 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
759 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
760 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
761 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
762 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
763 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
764 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
765 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
767 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
773 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
774 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
775 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
776 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
777 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
778 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
781 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
782 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
784 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
786 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
787 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
788 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
789 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
790 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
793 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
794 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
796 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
797 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
798 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
799 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
800 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
802 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
803 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
804 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
805 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
807 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
808 be the same on different OS.
810 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
813 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
814 whether --show-vars was specified or not
816 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
819 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
820 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
821 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
822 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
823 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
824 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
827 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
828 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
829 when Exim was called.
831 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
832 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
834 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
835 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
836 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
837 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
839 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
840 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
841 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
842 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
845 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
846 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
847 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
849 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
850 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
851 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
853 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
856 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
857 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
858 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
859 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
860 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
861 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
862 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
863 values from the SRV records were lost.
865 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
866 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
867 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
869 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
870 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
871 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
873 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
874 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
875 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
876 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
877 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
878 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
879 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
880 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
881 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
882 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
884 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
885 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
886 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
888 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
889 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
891 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
892 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
893 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
894 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
897 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
898 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
899 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
901 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
902 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
905 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
906 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
907 (for which there is an explicit test).
909 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
911 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
912 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
913 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
914 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
915 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
917 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
918 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
919 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
920 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
922 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
923 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
924 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
926 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
928 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
930 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
931 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
932 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
934 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
935 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
936 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
937 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
938 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
940 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
941 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
942 the message gets confusing).
944 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
945 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
946 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
947 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
949 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
950 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
951 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
952 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
955 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
956 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
957 the different processes.
959 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
961 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
963 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
964 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
966 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
967 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
969 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
970 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
971 messages matching specified criteria.
973 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
975 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
976 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
978 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
979 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
980 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
981 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
982 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
983 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
984 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
985 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
986 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
987 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
989 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
990 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
991 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
993 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
995 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
996 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
997 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
998 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
999 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1000 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1001 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1004 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1005 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1007 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1009 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1011 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1013 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1014 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1015 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1016 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1017 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1018 size of the count of files.
1020 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1022 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1025 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1026 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1027 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1028 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1030 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1031 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1032 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1034 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1035 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1036 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1037 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1038 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1040 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1041 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1043 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1044 will now be deprecated.
1046 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1048 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1049 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1050 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1052 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1053 with very large, slow to parse queues
1055 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1057 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1059 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1060 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1061 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1064 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1065 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1066 Sieve code now uses this.
1068 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1069 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1071 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1072 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1074 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1076 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1077 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1078 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1079 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1080 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1082 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1083 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1084 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1085 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1087 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1089 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1091 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1092 is preferred over IPv4.
1094 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1095 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1096 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1097 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1098 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1099 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1100 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1102 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1103 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1104 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1106 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1108 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1109 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1110 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1111 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1112 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1113 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1114 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1115 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1116 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1117 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1118 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1120 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1121 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1122 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1128 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1130 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1131 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1133 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1134 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1135 statements are most likely to be submissions.
1137 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1139 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1142 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1145 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1146 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1147 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1150 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1151 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1153 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1154 inside the third argument.
1156 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1157 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1160 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1161 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
1163 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1164 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1166 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1168 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1169 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1172 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1174 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1175 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1176 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1177 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1178 identical. For example:
1180 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1182 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1183 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1184 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1186 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1187 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1188 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1189 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1191 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1192 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1193 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1196 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1198 o fixes some comments
1199 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1200 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1201 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1202 and documents the missing references header update
1206 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1207 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1210 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1211 Electronic Mail") by including:
1213 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1215 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1216 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1217 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1218 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1219 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1221 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1223 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1225 The auto-replied keyword:
1227 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1228 message by an automatic process,
1230 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1232 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1233 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1235 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1236 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1239 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1240 to the default Received: header definition.
1242 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1244 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1245 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1246 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1248 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1249 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1250 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1252 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1253 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1254 and treats the condition as false.
1256 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1258 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1259 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1260 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1261 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1262 not changing the active code.
1264 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1265 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1267 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1268 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1270 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1273 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1274 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1275 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1276 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1277 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1278 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1279 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1280 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1281 the text comparison.
1283 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1284 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1285 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1286 The same fix has been applied.
1292 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1293 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1296 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1297 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1299 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1301 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1302 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1303 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1304 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1305 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1307 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1308 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1309 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1310 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1313 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1321 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1322 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1324 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1326 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1328 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1329 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1330 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1332 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1333 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1334 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1336 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1337 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1340 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1341 ${stat: expansion item.
1343 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1344 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1346 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1347 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1350 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1352 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1355 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1356 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1358 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1360 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1361 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1362 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1363 the end of the subprocess.
1365 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1366 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1367 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1368 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1369 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1371 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1373 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1375 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1376 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1378 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1380 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1382 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1383 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1386 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1388 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1389 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1390 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1392 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1393 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1395 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1396 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1398 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1399 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1401 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1402 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1404 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1405 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1406 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1407 contributed by a Radius user.
1409 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1410 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1412 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1413 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1415 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1418 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1419 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1422 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1423 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1424 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1425 header lines when this was not necessary.
1427 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1429 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1430 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1431 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1434 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1437 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1438 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1439 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1440 return code was incorrect.
1442 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1444 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1446 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1448 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1450 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1451 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1452 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1453 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1454 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1457 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1459 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1460 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1461 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1462 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1463 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1464 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1465 which is clearly wrong.
1467 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1469 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1470 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1471 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1474 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1475 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1477 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1479 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1480 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1482 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1483 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1485 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1486 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1488 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1489 recipients, not senders.
1491 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1492 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1494 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1496 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1498 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1499 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1500 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1501 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1503 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1505 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1506 clock is set back in time.
1508 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1509 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1511 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1512 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1514 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1515 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1518 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1519 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1522 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1525 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1527 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1528 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1529 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1531 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1532 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1533 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1534 helo verification defer as a failure.
1536 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1537 actual error message.
1543 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1545 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1546 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1547 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1548 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1550 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1552 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1553 can still be requested.
1555 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1556 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1557 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1558 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1560 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1561 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1562 circumstances, but probably never did.
1564 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1565 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1566 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1569 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1571 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1572 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
1574 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1576 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1578 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1579 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1580 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1581 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1582 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1583 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
1585 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1586 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1587 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1588 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1589 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1590 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1592 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1593 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1595 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1596 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1598 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1599 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1601 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1603 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1605 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1607 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1609 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1611 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1613 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1615 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1616 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1617 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1619 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1620 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1621 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1622 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1624 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1625 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1626 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1628 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1629 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1630 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1631 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1633 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1634 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1637 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1638 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1639 should work with maildirs and everything.
1641 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1642 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1644 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1647 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1648 function for BDB 4.3.
1650 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1652 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1653 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1656 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1657 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1658 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
1659 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1660 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1661 formatting function string_vformat().
1663 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1664 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1665 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1666 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1667 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1668 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1669 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1670 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1672 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1673 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1676 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1677 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1679 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1680 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1681 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1682 test. It is now used for both.
1684 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1685 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1686 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1687 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1688 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1689 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1691 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1692 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1693 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1696 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1697 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1698 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
1700 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1701 experimental DomainKeys support:
1703 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1704 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1705 the control was given.
1707 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1709 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1711 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1713 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1714 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1715 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1718 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
1719 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1720 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1721 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1722 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1723 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1726 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1727 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1728 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1729 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1730 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1731 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1733 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1734 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1735 do -d+all out of habit.
1737 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1738 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1741 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1742 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1743 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1744 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1745 record types that Exim uses.
1747 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1748 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1749 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1750 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1751 non-existent file that was broken.
1753 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1754 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1756 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1757 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1758 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1760 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1762 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1763 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1764 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1765 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1766 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1769 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1770 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1771 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1772 at a slight CPU cost.
1774 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1775 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1777 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1780 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1782 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1783 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1789 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1790 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1792 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1794 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1796 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1797 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1799 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1800 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1801 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1802 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1803 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1804 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1807 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1808 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1809 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1810 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1813 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1814 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1815 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1816 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1817 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1818 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1819 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
1822 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1823 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1825 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1826 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1827 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1828 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1829 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1830 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1832 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1833 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1834 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1835 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1837 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1840 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1841 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
1843 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1844 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
1845 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1846 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1849 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1851 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1852 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1854 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1855 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1856 to what was transported.)
1858 TF/01 Added $received_time.
1860 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1861 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1862 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1863 spamd_address settings.
1865 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1866 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1867 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1868 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1869 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1871 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1873 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1874 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1875 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1876 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1877 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1879 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1880 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1882 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1883 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1884 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1885 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1886 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1887 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1888 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1891 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1892 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1893 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1894 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1895 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1896 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1897 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1900 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1902 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1903 driver and ACL definitions.
1905 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1906 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1908 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1909 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1910 understands it better than I do:
1912 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1913 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1915 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1916 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1917 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1918 => three warnings about OTP not working
1919 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1921 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1922 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1923 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1924 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1926 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1927 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1929 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1930 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1931 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1933 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1934 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1937 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1938 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1941 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1942 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1943 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1945 warn !verify = sender
1946 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1948 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1949 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1951 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1953 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1954 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1956 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1957 nomenclature these days.)
1959 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1960 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1962 PH/30 In these circumstances:
1963 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1964 . First host does not offer TLS;
1965 . First host accepts first address;
1966 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1967 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1968 . Second host accepts second address.
1969 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1970 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1973 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1974 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1975 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1976 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1977 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1979 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1980 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1982 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1983 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
1985 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1986 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1987 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1989 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1990 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1993 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1995 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1996 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1997 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1998 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1999 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2000 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2001 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2003 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2004 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2005 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2006 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2007 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2009 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2010 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2013 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2014 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2015 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2016 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2017 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2018 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2020 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2022 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2023 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2024 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2025 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2026 printable escape sequences.
2028 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2029 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2032 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2033 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2036 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2037 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2038 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2039 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2040 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2042 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2043 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2044 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2046 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2048 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2049 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2052 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2053 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2054 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2055 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2056 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2057 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2058 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2059 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2060 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2063 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2064 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2065 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2066 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2070 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2071 ----------------------------------------
2073 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2074 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2075 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2076 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2077 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2078 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2081 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
2082 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2083 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2084 historical information.
2090 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2092 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
2093 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
2095 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2096 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2099 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2100 filter fails to execute.
2102 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2103 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2104 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2105 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2106 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2108 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2110 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2111 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2112 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2113 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2115 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2116 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2117 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2118 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2119 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2121 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2123 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2125 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2126 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2127 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2128 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2130 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2131 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2132 sender verification.
2134 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2135 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2137 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2139 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2142 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2143 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2145 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2146 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2148 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2149 information about exactly what failed.
2151 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2153 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2154 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2155 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2157 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2158 It is now set to "smtps".
2160 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2161 ignore_target_hosts.
2163 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2164 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2165 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2166 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2169 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2170 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2171 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2173 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2174 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2175 wake it up if nothing else does.
2177 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2178 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2179 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2182 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2183 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2185 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2187 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2188 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2189 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2190 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2191 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2192 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2193 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2194 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2196 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2197 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2198 than one IP address.
2200 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2201 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2202 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2203 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2205 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2206 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2207 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2208 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2209 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2212 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2213 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2214 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2215 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2217 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2218 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2221 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2222 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2223 $sender_host_address.
2225 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2226 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2227 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2228 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2229 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2232 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2234 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2235 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2237 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2238 just the host names, not the priorities.
2240 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
2241 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2242 controlled by a keyword.
2244 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
2245 multiple records are returned.
2247 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2248 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2251 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2253 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2254 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2256 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2257 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2258 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2260 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2262 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2264 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2266 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2267 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2268 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2269 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2270 because the tests only now provoked it.
2272 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2273 (this can affect the format of dates).
2275 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2276 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2277 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2278 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2280 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2282 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2283 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2284 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2285 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2287 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2288 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2289 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2291 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2294 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2295 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2296 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2297 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2298 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2299 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2302 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2303 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2304 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2307 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2308 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2309 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2311 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2312 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2313 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2314 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2315 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2316 so I produce this patch..."
2318 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2319 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2322 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2323 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2324 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2325 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2328 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2330 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2331 long debug lines gets shown.
2333 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2334 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2336 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2338 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2339 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2340 of $primary_hostname.
2342 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2343 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2344 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2345 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2346 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2347 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2348 by change 4.50/55 above.
2350 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2351 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2352 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2353 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2354 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2355 running as the user.
2358 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2359 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2360 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
2363 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2364 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2366 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2367 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2368 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2369 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2370 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2372 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2373 This has been fixed.
2375 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2376 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2377 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2378 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2381 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2383 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2384 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2385 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2386 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2388 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2389 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2391 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2392 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2393 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2395 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2396 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2397 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2400 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2401 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2402 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2404 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2405 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2406 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2407 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2409 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2410 during host lookups.
2412 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2413 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2415 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2417 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2418 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2419 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2420 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2421 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2424 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2425 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2427 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2428 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2429 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2431 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2433 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2434 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2435 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2436 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2437 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2438 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2441 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2442 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2443 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2444 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2445 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2447 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2450 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2452 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2453 "vacation" handling.
2455 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2456 OS variants using glibc.
2458 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2461 ----------------------------------------------------
2462 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2463 ----------------------------------------------------
2469 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2470 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2473 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2474 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2477 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2478 filter fails to execute.
2480 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2481 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2482 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2483 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2484 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2486 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2487 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2488 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2489 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2491 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2492 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2493 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2494 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2495 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2497 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2499 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2500 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2501 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2502 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2504 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2505 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2506 sender verification.
2508 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2509 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2511 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2512 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2514 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2515 ignore_target_hosts.
2517 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2518 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2519 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2520 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2523 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2524 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2525 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2527 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2528 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2529 wake it up if nothing else does.
2531 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2532 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2533 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2536 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2537 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2539 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
2541 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2542 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2545 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2546 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2549 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2550 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2551 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2552 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2553 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2556 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2557 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2560 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2561 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2562 $sender_host_address.
2564 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2566 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2567 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2568 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2570 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
2573 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2574 (this can affect the format of dates).
2576 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2577 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2578 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2579 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2581 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2582 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2583 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2585 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2586 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2587 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2588 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2590 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2591 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2592 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2594 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2597 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2598 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2599 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2600 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2601 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2602 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2605 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2606 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2607 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2608 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2611 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2612 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2613 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2614 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2615 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2616 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2617 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2619 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2620 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2621 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2622 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2623 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2624 running as the user.
2627 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2628 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2629 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
2632 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2633 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2634 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2635 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2636 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2638 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2639 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2640 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2641 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2644 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2645 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2646 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2647 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2648 because the tests only now provoked it.
2654 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2655 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2656 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2657 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2658 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2659 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2660 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2662 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2663 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2666 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2668 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2670 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2671 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2674 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2675 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2676 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2677 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2678 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2680 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2681 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2683 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2685 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2687 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2690 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2691 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2693 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2694 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2695 affecting debugging statements).
2697 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2699 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2700 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2701 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2702 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2703 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2704 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2705 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2706 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2707 after the received time, and all would be well.
2709 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2710 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2711 condition in an expansion string.
2713 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2715 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2716 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2717 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2718 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2719 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2720 job under whatever limits there are.
2722 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2724 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2727 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2728 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2729 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2730 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2733 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2734 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2735 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2736 binary data in such strings.
2738 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2740 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2741 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2742 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2743 failure, which is pointless.
2745 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2747 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2749 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2750 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2751 Sender: header lines.
2753 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2754 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2755 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2757 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2758 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2759 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2760 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2761 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2764 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2765 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2766 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2767 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2768 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2770 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2771 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2772 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2775 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2776 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2778 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2779 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2781 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2783 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2785 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2787 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2790 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2792 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2794 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2795 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2796 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2797 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2799 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2800 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2806 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2807 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2808 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2810 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2811 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2812 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2813 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2814 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2815 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2817 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2818 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2819 verification failure".
2821 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2822 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2823 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2824 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2826 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2827 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2828 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2829 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2830 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2831 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2832 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2833 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2834 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2835 treated as a timeout.
2837 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2838 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2839 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2840 not set for Exim filters).
2842 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2843 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2844 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2846 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2848 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2849 try to make them clearer.
2851 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2852 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2854 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2856 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2858 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2859 only the Cygwin environment.
2861 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2862 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2863 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2864 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2865 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2867 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2868 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2869 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2870 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2871 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2872 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2873 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2875 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2876 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2878 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2880 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2881 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2882 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2884 To: susanne@some.where
2886 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2887 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2888 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2889 of addresses in From: header lines).
2891 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2892 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2893 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2895 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2896 treated as non-personal.
2898 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2899 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2901 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2903 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2905 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2906 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2907 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2909 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2910 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2912 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2913 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2914 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2915 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2916 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2917 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2919 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2920 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2921 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2922 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2923 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2924 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2925 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2926 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2928 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2930 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2931 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2933 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2934 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2935 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2937 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2938 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2940 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2941 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2942 rather than long int.
2944 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2946 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2952 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2953 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2954 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2955 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2956 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2957 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2963 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2964 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2966 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2967 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2968 socklen_t is defined.
2970 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2973 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2976 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2977 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2978 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2979 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2980 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2982 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2983 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2984 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2985 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2987 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2988 of flapping under certain conditions.
2990 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2991 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2992 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2994 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2996 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2998 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2999 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3000 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3001 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3003 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3004 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3005 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3006 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3007 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3008 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3009 preserved with the message after it was received.
3011 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3012 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3013 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3014 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3015 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3016 test suite worked just fine.
3018 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3019 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3020 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3022 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3023 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3026 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3027 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3028 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3029 does not fully solve it.
3031 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3032 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3033 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3034 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3035 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3037 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3038 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3039 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3041 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3042 string, for example:
3044 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3046 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3047 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3048 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3049 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3050 the routers could not see them.
3052 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3053 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3055 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3056 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3059 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3060 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3061 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3062 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3063 that needed quoting.
3065 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3066 was not being matched caselessly.
3068 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3071 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3072 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3073 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3074 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3075 when use_sender is false.
3077 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3079 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3081 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3083 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3084 the configuration file.
3086 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3087 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3089 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3091 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3092 bytes in the message body.
3094 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3095 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3098 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3100 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3102 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3103 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3104 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3105 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3112 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3113 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3115 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3116 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3117 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3118 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3119 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3121 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3122 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3124 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3125 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3126 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3128 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3129 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3130 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3132 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3135 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3136 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3137 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3138 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3139 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3140 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3141 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3147 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3148 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3149 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3150 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3151 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3152 default (and expected) setting.
3154 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3155 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3156 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3157 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3159 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3160 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3162 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3165 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3166 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3167 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3168 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3169 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3170 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3172 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3173 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3174 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3176 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3177 part (NOT match_host).
3179 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3181 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3182 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3183 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3184 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3185 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3186 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3187 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3188 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3189 the same named file.
3191 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3192 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3195 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3196 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3197 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3198 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3201 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3202 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3203 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3205 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3207 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3209 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3211 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3212 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3214 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3215 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3216 before starting the TLS session.
3218 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3220 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3221 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3223 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3224 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3225 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3226 colon in the middle).
3232 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3233 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3234 multiple configurations are in use.
3236 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3237 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3238 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3239 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3240 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3241 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3243 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3244 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3246 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3247 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3248 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3250 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3251 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3254 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3255 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3257 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3259 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3260 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3262 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3270 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3271 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3272 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3273 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3274 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3276 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3279 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3280 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3281 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3282 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3283 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3284 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3286 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3287 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3288 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3289 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3290 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3291 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3292 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3295 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3296 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3297 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3298 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3299 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3301 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3303 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3304 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3305 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3307 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3309 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3310 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3311 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3314 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3315 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3317 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3318 Three changes have been made:
3320 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3321 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3322 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3323 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3324 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3326 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3329 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3330 the modified behaviour.
3336 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3339 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3340 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3342 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3343 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3344 try to track down a specific problem.
3346 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3347 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3348 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3350 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3353 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3354 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3355 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3356 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3357 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3358 some earlier ones do not.
3360 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3362 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3363 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3364 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3365 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3366 address literals are enabled, of course).
3368 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3370 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3371 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3372 by a command such as
3376 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3378 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3380 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3381 remained set. It is now erased.
3383 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3384 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3386 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3387 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3388 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3389 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3390 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3391 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3392 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3393 appropriate error code.
3395 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3396 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3397 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3398 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3399 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3400 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3402 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3403 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3404 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3406 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3407 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3408 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3409 terminate the header.
3411 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3412 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3413 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3415 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3416 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3417 (4.30/29). In particular:
3419 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3422 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3423 to write a maildirsize file.
3425 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3426 the transport, the new value overrides.
3428 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3431 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3432 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3433 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3436 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3437 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3438 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3441 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3442 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3443 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3445 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3446 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3449 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3450 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3451 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3453 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3455 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3457 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3459 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3460 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3463 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3464 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3465 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3466 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3467 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3468 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3469 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3472 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3473 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3474 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3475 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3476 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3479 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3480 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3481 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3482 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3483 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3484 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3485 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3486 cached value only when the same options are set.
3488 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3490 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3491 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3492 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3493 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3494 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3496 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3497 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3498 it is clearly obsolete.
3500 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3503 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3504 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3505 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3508 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3509 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3510 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3511 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3512 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3514 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3515 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3516 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3517 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3519 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3521 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3523 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3524 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3527 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3528 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3529 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3530 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3531 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3532 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3535 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3536 with the -f command-line option.
3538 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
3539 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
3540 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
3541 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
3542 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
3543 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3545 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
3546 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
3549 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
3550 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
3551 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
3552 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
3553 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
3554 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
3555 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
3556 buffer is too small.
3558 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
3559 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
3561 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
3562 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
3563 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
3564 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
3565 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
3566 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
3567 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
3568 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
3569 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
3571 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
3572 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
3573 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
3575 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
3576 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
3579 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
3580 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
3581 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
3582 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
3583 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
3585 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
3586 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
3587 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
3588 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
3591 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
3593 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
3595 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
3596 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
3598 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
3599 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
3600 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
3602 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
3603 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
3604 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
3605 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
3606 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
3608 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
3609 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
3610 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
3611 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
3612 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
3613 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
3614 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
3616 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
3617 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
3618 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
3619 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
3620 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
3621 the test of how many are available.
3623 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
3624 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
3625 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
3626 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
3627 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
3628 new message is started.
3630 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
3631 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
3633 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
3634 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
3636 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
3637 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
3638 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
3641 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
3642 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
3643 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
3644 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
3645 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
3646 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
3647 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
3649 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
3650 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
3651 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
3652 interpreted as octal.
3654 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
3657 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
3658 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
3659 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
3660 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
3661 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
3662 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
3664 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
3665 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
3666 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
3667 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
3669 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
3670 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3671 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3672 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3674 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3675 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3678 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3679 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3681 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3683 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3684 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3685 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3686 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3688 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3689 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3690 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3691 supplied", which is not helpful.
3693 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3694 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3695 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3697 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3698 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3699 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3700 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3701 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3702 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3703 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3704 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3706 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3707 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3708 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3709 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3710 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3712 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3713 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3714 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3715 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3716 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3717 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3719 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3720 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3721 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3723 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
3725 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3726 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3727 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3730 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3732 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3733 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3734 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3735 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3736 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3737 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3738 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3739 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3741 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3742 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3743 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3744 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3745 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3747 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3750 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3751 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3752 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3753 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3754 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3755 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3756 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3757 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3758 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3764 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3765 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3766 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3768 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3771 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3772 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3773 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3775 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3776 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3777 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3778 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3779 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3780 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3782 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3783 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3784 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3785 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3786 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3787 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3788 the Exim test suite.
3790 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3791 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3792 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3793 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3795 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3796 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3797 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3798 specify it in this variable.
3800 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3801 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3802 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3803 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3805 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3806 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3807 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3808 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3810 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3811 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3812 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
3813 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
3814 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
3816 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
3818 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
3821 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3822 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3823 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3824 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3825 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3827 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3828 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3830 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3831 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3832 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3833 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3834 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3836 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3837 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3839 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3840 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3841 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3843 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3844 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3846 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3847 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3849 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3850 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3851 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3853 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3854 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3856 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3857 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3858 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3859 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3861 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3863 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3864 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3865 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3866 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3868 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3870 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3871 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3873 25. Added .include_if_exists.
3875 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3876 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3877 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
3878 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
3879 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
3880 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3882 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3884 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3885 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3888 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3890 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3891 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3893 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3894 550 Sender verify failed
3896 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3897 the final line of the response.
3899 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3900 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3901 all other user lookups.
3903 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3906 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3907 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3908 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3909 result into an int without checking.
3911 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3912 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3913 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3915 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3916 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3917 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3918 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3920 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3923 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3924 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3926 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3927 to the empty sender.
3929 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3930 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3931 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3932 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3933 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3934 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3935 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3938 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3939 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3940 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3941 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3944 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3945 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3947 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3950 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3951 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3953 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3955 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3956 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3959 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3960 as soon as it is encountered.
3962 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3964 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3967 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3968 recognizes a tab character.
3970 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3971 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3972 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3973 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3975 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3977 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3980 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3982 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3984 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3985 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3988 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3989 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3990 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3991 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3992 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3994 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3995 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3997 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3998 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3999 list (.included file names were always shown).
4001 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4002 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4003 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4006 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4007 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4009 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4011 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4013 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4015 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4016 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4017 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4018 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4019 failures to open the logs.
4021 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4022 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4023 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4024 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4025 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4026 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4027 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4033 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4034 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4035 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4038 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4039 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4040 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4042 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4043 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4044 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4046 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4047 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4048 causing some misleading effects.
4050 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4051 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4052 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4054 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4055 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4056 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4057 queue-runner function directly.
4063 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4066 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4067 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4068 was always written to the default place.
4070 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4071 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4072 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4074 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4076 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4078 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4079 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4080 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4082 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4083 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4086 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4087 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4088 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4090 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4091 command line option is disabled.
4093 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4094 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4096 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4098 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4100 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4101 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4103 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4105 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4106 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4107 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4108 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4109 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4110 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4112 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4113 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4116 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4117 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4119 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4120 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4122 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4123 received was valid base64.
4125 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4126 name of the variable that was being set.
4128 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4130 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4131 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4132 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4133 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4134 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4135 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4137 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4139 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4140 nor realm was specified.
4142 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4143 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4144 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4145 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4147 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4148 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4149 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4151 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4152 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4153 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4155 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4156 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4157 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4158 some systems use these upper case variants.
4160 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4161 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4162 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4163 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4165 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4167 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4168 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4170 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4171 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4174 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4176 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4177 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4178 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4179 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4181 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4184 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4185 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4186 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4188 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4189 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4191 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4192 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4193 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4194 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4196 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4197 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4198 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4200 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4202 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4203 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4204 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4205 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4208 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4209 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4210 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4212 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4214 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4215 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4217 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4218 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4220 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4221 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4222 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4223 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4224 when emails are that large.
4231 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4232 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4234 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4235 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4236 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4238 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4239 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4240 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4242 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4243 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4244 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4245 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4246 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4248 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4249 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4250 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4251 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4252 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4255 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4256 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4257 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4258 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4259 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4260 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4261 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4262 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4263 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4264 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4265 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4266 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4267 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4268 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4270 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4271 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4274 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4275 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4276 error should be diagnosed.
4278 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4279 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4280 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4281 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4282 appeared instead of "NULL".
4284 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4285 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4286 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4287 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4288 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4289 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4292 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4293 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4294 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4300 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4301 or receiver verification errors.
4303 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4306 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4307 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4308 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4309 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4311 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4312 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4313 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4314 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4315 shouldn't happen again.
4317 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4318 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4319 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4321 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4322 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4324 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4326 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4327 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4329 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4330 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4333 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4334 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4335 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4337 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4338 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4339 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4340 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4342 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4343 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4344 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4345 to define what should happen).
4347 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4348 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4349 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4351 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4353 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4355 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4356 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4358 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4359 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4360 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4361 structure in all cases.
4363 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4364 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4365 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4366 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4368 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4369 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4372 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4373 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4375 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4376 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4378 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4379 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4380 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4382 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4383 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4384 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4386 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4387 the book and for uniformity.
4389 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4391 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4392 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4393 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4394 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4395 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4396 non-existent command as the problem.
4398 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4399 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4400 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4402 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4404 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4405 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4406 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4408 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4409 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4410 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4411 timestamps using strftime().
4413 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4414 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4416 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4417 transport-time rewrites.
4419 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4420 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4421 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4422 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4424 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4425 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4427 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4428 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4429 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4430 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4433 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4434 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4435 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4436 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4437 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4438 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4439 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4441 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4442 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4443 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4444 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4445 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4447 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4448 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4449 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4450 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4451 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4452 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4453 remaining text gets split now.
4455 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4456 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4457 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4458 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4460 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4461 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4462 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4463 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4466 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4467 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4468 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4469 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4470 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4471 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4472 passed through if needed.
4474 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4475 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4476 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4477 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4478 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4479 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4481 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4482 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4483 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4484 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4485 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4487 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4488 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4489 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4490 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4491 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4493 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
4494 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
4497 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
4498 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
4499 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
4500 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
4501 mayhem of various kinds.
4503 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
4504 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4505 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
4506 the right test for positive values.
4508 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
4509 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
4510 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
4511 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
4512 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
4513 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
4514 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
4515 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
4516 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
4517 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
4520 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
4523 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
4524 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
4527 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
4528 the existing equality matching.
4530 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
4531 dealing with inode numbers.
4533 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
4534 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
4535 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
4537 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
4538 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
4539 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
4540 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
4543 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
4544 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
4545 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
4546 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
4547 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
4548 relay addresses has also been removed.
4550 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
4552 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
4553 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
4554 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
4556 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
4557 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
4558 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
4559 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
4560 processing applies to CR:
4562 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
4563 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
4565 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
4566 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
4567 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
4568 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
4570 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
4571 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
4572 This is a VOB (very old bug).
4574 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
4575 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
4576 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
4577 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
4578 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
4579 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
4582 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
4585 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
4586 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
4587 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
4588 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
4591 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4593 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
4595 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
4597 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
4598 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
4599 not considered personal.
4601 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
4603 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
4605 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
4607 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
4608 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
4609 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
4610 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
4611 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
4612 header lines, and spool format errors.
4614 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
4615 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
4616 for more flexibility.
4618 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
4619 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
4620 consulting and updating the callout cache.
4622 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
4625 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
4626 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
4627 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
4628 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
4629 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
4630 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
4631 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
4632 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
4633 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
4635 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
4636 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
4637 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
4638 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
4639 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
4640 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
4641 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
4643 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
4644 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
4645 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
4647 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
4648 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
4649 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
4650 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
4651 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
4652 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
4653 instead of killing the process with assert().
4655 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
4656 than Unicode encoding.
4658 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
4659 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
4660 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
4661 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
4663 77. Added process_log_path.
4665 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
4666 check_log_inodes was ignored.
4668 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
4669 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
4671 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
4672 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
4673 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
4675 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
4676 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
4677 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
4678 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
4679 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
4682 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
4683 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
4686 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
4687 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
4688 they will be used during message reception.
4694 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.