1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
9 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
12 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
15 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
19 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
21 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
27 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
34 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
36 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
38 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
39 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
41 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
42 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
43 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
45 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
47 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
49 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
50 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
52 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
54 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
56 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
58 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
59 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
61 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
63 PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
65 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
66 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
68 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
69 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
72 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
74 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
76 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
77 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
79 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
82 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
83 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
85 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
86 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
88 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
91 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
94 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
97 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
99 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
100 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
101 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
102 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
104 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
106 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
107 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
108 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
109 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
112 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
113 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
114 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
116 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
117 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
118 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
119 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
121 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
122 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
123 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
124 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
125 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
126 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
127 delivery, as in LMTP.
129 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
130 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
132 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
134 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
138 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
139 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
140 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
141 username as equal to the username.
143 This change corrects that bug.
145 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
146 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
147 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
149 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
151 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
152 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
153 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
154 NULL dereference and crash.
156 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
158 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
159 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
160 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
162 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
164 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
165 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
166 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
167 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
168 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
169 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
170 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
171 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
172 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
173 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
174 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
176 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
177 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
179 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
180 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
183 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
184 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
185 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
186 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
187 an empty string is now equivalent.
189 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
190 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
191 not performing validation itself.
193 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
194 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
196 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
199 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
200 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
201 other false fix of the same issue.
202 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
205 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
206 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
208 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
209 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
210 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
212 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
213 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
214 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
220 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
222 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
228 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
229 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
230 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
232 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
234 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
237 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
239 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
241 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
243 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
244 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
246 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
247 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
249 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
250 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
252 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
253 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
254 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
256 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
258 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
259 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
261 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
263 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
265 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
266 non-compliant senders.
267 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
269 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
270 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
271 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
273 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
274 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
275 in spool file corruption.
277 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
278 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
279 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
282 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
283 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
284 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
286 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
287 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
289 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
291 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
293 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
295 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
296 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
297 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
299 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
300 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
301 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
302 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
304 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
305 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
307 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
308 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
309 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
310 resolver implementation change.
312 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
313 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
315 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
317 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
319 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
320 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
322 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
323 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
325 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
326 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
328 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
329 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
330 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
331 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
332 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
334 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
336 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
337 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
338 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
340 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
342 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
343 read-only, out of scope).
344 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
346 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
347 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
348 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
349 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
351 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
353 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
354 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
355 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
356 real issues in debug logging.
358 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
359 assignment on my part. Fixed.
361 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
362 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
363 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
365 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
366 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
367 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
370 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
371 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
373 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
374 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
375 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
376 needs to override this, it can.
378 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
379 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
380 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
382 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
383 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
384 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
385 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
387 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
393 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
394 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
396 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
398 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
401 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
402 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
404 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
405 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
406 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
408 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
409 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
410 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
411 not safe for signals.
413 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
414 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
415 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
416 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
419 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
421 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
422 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
423 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
424 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
425 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
427 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
428 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
429 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
430 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
431 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
432 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
434 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
435 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
436 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
437 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
439 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
440 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
441 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
442 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
444 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
445 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
446 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
447 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
448 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
449 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
450 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
451 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
452 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
454 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
455 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
456 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
457 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
459 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
460 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
461 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
462 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
463 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
464 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
465 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
466 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
467 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
468 details in the main documentation.
470 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
472 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
474 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
475 repository when doing development or release builds.
477 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
478 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
480 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
481 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
484 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
486 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
487 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
489 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
490 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
492 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
493 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
495 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
496 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
498 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
499 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
501 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
503 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
506 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
507 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
508 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
510 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
512 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
514 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
515 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
521 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
523 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
524 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
526 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
528 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
530 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
533 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
534 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
536 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
537 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
539 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
542 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
545 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
546 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
548 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
549 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
550 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
551 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
553 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
554 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
560 NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
563 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
564 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
565 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
567 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
568 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
570 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
571 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
572 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
574 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
575 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
577 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
578 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
580 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
581 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
583 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
584 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
586 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
587 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
589 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
592 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
593 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
595 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
596 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
598 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
599 SQL string expansion failure details.
600 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
602 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
603 Patch from Simon Arlott.
605 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
606 extern declarations in function scope.
607 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
609 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
610 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
611 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
614 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
615 Patch from Mark Zealey.
617 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
618 Patch from Mark Zealey.
620 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
621 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
623 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
624 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
626 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
627 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
630 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
632 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
634 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
635 Patch by Simon Arlott
637 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
638 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
644 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
645 consequences so log it to the panic log.
647 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
648 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
650 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
652 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
653 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
654 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
656 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
657 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
658 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
660 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
661 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
662 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
663 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
665 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
666 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
667 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
668 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
670 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
671 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
672 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
675 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
678 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
679 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
680 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
681 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
682 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
688 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
689 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
690 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
692 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
693 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
695 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
697 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
699 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
701 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
703 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
705 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
706 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
707 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
708 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
710 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
711 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
712 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
713 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
714 more caution in buffer sizes.
716 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
718 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
720 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
722 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
724 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
726 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
728 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
730 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
731 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
732 ignore trailing whitespace.
734 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
736 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
739 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
740 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
742 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
743 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
744 Notification from John Horne.
746 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
749 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
750 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
753 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
756 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
757 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
758 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
760 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
761 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
762 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
765 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
766 option (effectively making it always true).
768 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
769 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
771 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
772 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
774 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
775 run-time user, instead of root.
777 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
778 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
780 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
781 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
784 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
785 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
786 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
788 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
790 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
796 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
797 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
800 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
801 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
804 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
805 Patch from Alain Williams
807 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
809 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
810 Patch from Andreas Metzler
812 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
813 Patch from Kirill Miazine
815 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
817 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
819 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
820 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
822 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
824 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
826 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
827 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
828 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
830 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
831 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
833 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
834 Patch by Simon Arlott
836 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
837 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
843 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
845 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
847 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
849 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
851 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
857 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
858 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
860 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
861 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
864 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
865 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
866 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
868 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
869 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
871 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
872 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
873 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
874 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
876 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
877 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
878 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
880 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
882 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
884 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
885 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
887 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
889 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
890 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
891 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
892 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
894 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
895 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
897 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
899 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
901 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
902 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
904 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
905 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
907 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
908 that they are available at delivery time.
910 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
912 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
913 incoming_port log selectors.
915 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
916 setting expands to an empty string.
918 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
919 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
921 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
922 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
924 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
925 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
927 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
928 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
930 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
931 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
933 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
934 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
936 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
938 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
939 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
941 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
942 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
944 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
946 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
947 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
949 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
951 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
953 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
956 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
957 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
959 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
960 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
962 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
963 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
965 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
966 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
968 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
969 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
971 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
972 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
974 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
975 plus update to original patch.
977 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
979 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
980 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
982 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
984 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
986 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
988 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
990 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
991 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
993 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
994 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
996 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
997 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
999 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1000 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
1002 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
1004 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
1006 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
1008 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
1014 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1015 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1016 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1018 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1019 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1020 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1021 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1022 build errors in sieve.c.
1024 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1025 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1026 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1028 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1030 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
1032 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
1034 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
1040 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1042 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1043 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1044 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1045 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1046 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1047 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1048 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1049 for iplsearch lookups.
1051 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1052 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1053 previously such lookups could never work.
1055 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1056 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1057 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1059 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1062 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1063 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1064 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1065 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1066 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1067 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1069 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1070 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1072 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1073 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1074 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1075 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1076 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1077 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1079 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1082 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1084 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1085 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1088 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1089 by clients under certain conditions.
1091 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1092 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1094 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1096 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1097 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1099 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1101 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1103 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1105 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1106 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1108 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1110 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1111 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1113 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1115 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1117 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1118 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1119 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1120 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
1122 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
1123 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1124 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1126 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
1127 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1129 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1131 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1133 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1135 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1136 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1137 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1143 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1144 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1147 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1148 issue a MAIL command.
1150 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1152 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1154 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1155 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1156 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1157 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1158 item. This has been fixed.
1160 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1161 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1163 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1164 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1166 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1167 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1168 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1170 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1172 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1173 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1174 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1175 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1176 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1178 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1179 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1180 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1182 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1183 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1184 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1185 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1187 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1189 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1191 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1192 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1193 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1194 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1195 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1197 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1199 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1200 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1201 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1204 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1206 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1208 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1210 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1212 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1214 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1215 no_callout_flush is set.
1217 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1218 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1219 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1222 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1224 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1225 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1226 other ACL rejections are.
1228 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1229 with slight modification.
1231 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1232 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1234 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1235 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1238 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1239 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1241 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1243 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1244 expansion side effects.
1246 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1247 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1248 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1251 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1252 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1253 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1255 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1256 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1257 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1258 were accidentally chopped off.
1260 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1261 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1262 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1263 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1264 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1265 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1266 pipelining has not been advertised.
1268 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1270 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1271 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1272 This has been fixed.
1274 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1275 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1276 reported on Solaris.
1278 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1279 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1280 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1281 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1282 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1283 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1284 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1286 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1289 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1291 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1293 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1294 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
1295 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1296 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1297 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1298 criteria to be more general.
1300 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1301 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1302 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1303 host_all_ignored option.
1305 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1306 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1307 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1308 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1309 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1310 is what is supposed to happen).
1312 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1313 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1314 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1315 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1316 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1319 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1320 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1321 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1322 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1323 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1324 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1327 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1329 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1330 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1332 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1333 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1335 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1337 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1339 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
1340 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1341 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1342 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1343 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1344 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1345 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1346 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
1347 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
1348 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1349 least in a lot of common cases.
1351 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1352 advertised in response to EHLO.
1358 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1359 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1361 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1362 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1364 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1365 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1366 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1368 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1369 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1370 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1371 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1372 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1378 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1379 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1382 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1383 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1384 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1386 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1387 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1388 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1389 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1390 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1391 rather than extend the field.
1397 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1398 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1399 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1400 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1403 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1404 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1405 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1407 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1408 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1409 hence the _LINUX specificness.
1411 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1412 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1413 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1416 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1417 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1418 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1419 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1420 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1421 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1422 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1423 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1424 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1425 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1426 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1428 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1431 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1432 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1433 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1434 ignores EPIPE as well.
1436 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1437 (quoted-printable decoding).
1439 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
1440 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
1442 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1444 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1446 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1448 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
1449 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
1451 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1454 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1455 miscellaneous code fixes
1457 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1460 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1461 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1462 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1463 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1464 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1465 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1466 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1467 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
1469 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
1470 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
1471 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1472 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1474 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1475 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1476 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1477 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1478 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1479 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1480 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1481 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1482 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1484 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1487 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1488 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1489 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1490 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1491 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1492 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1493 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1494 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1496 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1497 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1500 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1501 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1502 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1503 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1504 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1505 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1506 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1507 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1508 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1509 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1510 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1511 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1512 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1514 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1515 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1516 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1517 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1518 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1519 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1520 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1522 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1523 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1524 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1525 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1526 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1527 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1528 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1529 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1530 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1531 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1533 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1534 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1535 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1536 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1537 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1539 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1540 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1541 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1542 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1543 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1544 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1545 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1547 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1548 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1549 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1550 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1551 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1552 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1555 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
1556 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1557 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1560 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1561 if any retry times were supplied.
1563 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1564 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1565 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1567 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1569 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1571 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1572 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1573 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1574 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
1575 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1576 before) are ignored.
1578 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1579 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1581 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1582 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1583 committing the later change.]
1585 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1586 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1587 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1588 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1589 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1590 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1591 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1592 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1593 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1595 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1596 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1597 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1598 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1599 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1600 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1601 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1602 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1603 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1605 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1606 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1607 hammering the server.
1609 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1610 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1612 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1614 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1615 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1616 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1618 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1619 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1620 one case where this was not true.
1622 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1623 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1624 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1625 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1628 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1629 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1630 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1631 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1632 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1633 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1634 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1635 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1636 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1639 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1640 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1641 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1642 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1644 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1645 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1647 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1648 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1649 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1651 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1653 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1655 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1657 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1658 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1659 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1660 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1662 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1663 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1665 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1666 be meaningful with "accept".
1668 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1669 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1671 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1672 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1673 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1675 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1676 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1677 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1678 there is data to show.
1679 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1681 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1682 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1683 as well as the number of messages.
1685 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1686 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1687 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1689 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1690 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1691 have a flag are now skipped.
1693 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1694 Added the -emptyok flag.
1696 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1697 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1699 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1700 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1701 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1703 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1706 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1707 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1709 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1711 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1712 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1714 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1716 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1717 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1718 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1719 contravention of the specifications.
1721 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1722 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1723 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1725 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1726 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1727 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1729 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1731 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1732 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1733 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1734 some point in the past.
1736 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1737 transport during callout processing was broken.
1739 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1740 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1742 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1743 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1745 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1746 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1748 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1754 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1755 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1757 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1758 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1759 there is data to show.
1760 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1762 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1763 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1765 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1766 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1768 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1769 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1771 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1772 submissions from trusted users.
1774 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1775 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1777 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1778 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1779 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1780 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1781 there is now a framework to start from.
1783 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1784 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1785 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1787 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1789 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1791 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1793 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1794 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1795 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1797 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1800 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1801 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1802 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1804 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1805 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1806 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1809 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1810 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1811 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1812 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1813 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1815 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1816 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1818 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1820 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1821 operations in malware.c.
1823 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1826 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1827 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1828 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1831 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1832 statements to "add_header".
1834 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1835 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1837 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1838 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1841 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1845 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1846 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1847 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1850 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1851 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1853 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1854 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1856 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1857 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1858 any possible encoding problems.
1860 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1861 but not after initializing Perl.
1863 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1864 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1865 apparently, which is not desirable.
1867 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1870 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1873 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1875 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1876 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1877 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1878 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1880 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1881 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1882 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1884 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1885 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1886 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1889 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1890 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1891 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1892 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1893 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1899 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1900 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1902 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1905 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1906 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1907 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1908 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1909 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1910 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1911 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1912 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1915 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1917 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1918 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1919 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1921 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1922 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1923 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1926 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1927 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1929 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1930 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1931 option (which defaults to 0600).
1933 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1935 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1936 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1937 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1938 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1939 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1940 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1941 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1943 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1949 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1950 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1951 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1952 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1953 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1954 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1957 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1958 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1960 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1962 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1963 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1964 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1965 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1966 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1969 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1970 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1972 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1973 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1974 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1975 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1976 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1978 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1979 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1980 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1981 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1983 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1984 be the same on different OS.
1986 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1989 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1990 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1992 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1995 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1996 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1997 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1998 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1999 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2000 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2003 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2004 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2005 when Exim was called.
2007 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2008 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2010 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2011 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2012 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2013 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2015 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2016 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2017 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2018 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2021 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2022 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2023 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2025 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2026 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2027 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2029 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2032 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2033 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2034 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2035 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2036 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2037 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2038 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2039 values from the SRV records were lost.
2041 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2042 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2043 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2045 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2046 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2047 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2049 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2050 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2051 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2052 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2053 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2054 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2055 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2056 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2057 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
2058 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
2060 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2061 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2062 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2064 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2065 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2067 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2068 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2069 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2070 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2073 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2074 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2075 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2077 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2078 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2079 PH/23 above applies.
2081 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2082 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2083 (for which there is an explicit test).
2085 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2087 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2088 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2089 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2090 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2091 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
2093 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2094 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2095 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2096 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2098 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2099 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2100 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2102 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2104 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2106 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2107 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2108 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2110 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2111 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2112 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2113 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2114 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2116 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2117 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2118 the message gets confusing).
2120 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2121 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2122 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2123 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2125 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2126 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2127 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2128 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2131 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2132 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2133 the different processes.
2135 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2137 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2139 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2140 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2142 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2143 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2145 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2146 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2147 messages matching specified criteria.
2149 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2151 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2152 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2154 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2155 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2156 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2157 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2158 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2159 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2160 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2161 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2162 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2163 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2165 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2166 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2167 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2169 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2171 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2172 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2173 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2174 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2175 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2176 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2177 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2180 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2181 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2183 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2185 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2187 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2189 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2190 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2191 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2192 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2193 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2194 size of the count of files.
2196 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2198 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2201 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2202 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2203 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2204 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2206 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2207 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2208 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2210 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2211 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2212 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2213 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2214 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2216 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2217 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2219 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2220 will now be deprecated.
2222 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2224 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2225 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2226 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2228 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2229 with very large, slow to parse queues
2231 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2233 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2235 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2236 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2237 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2240 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2241 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2242 Sieve code now uses this.
2244 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2245 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2247 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2248 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2250 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2252 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2253 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2254 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2255 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2256 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2258 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2259 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2260 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2261 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2263 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2265 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2267 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2268 is preferred over IPv4.
2270 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2271 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2272 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2273 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2274 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2275 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2276 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2278 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2279 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2280 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2282 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2284 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2285 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2286 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2287 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2288 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2289 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2290 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2291 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2292 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2293 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2294 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2296 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2297 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2298 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2304 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2306 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2307 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2309 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2310 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2311 statements are most likely to be submissions.
2313 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2315 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2318 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2321 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2322 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2323 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2326 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2327 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2329 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2330 inside the third argument.
2332 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2333 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2336 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2337 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
2339 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2340 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2342 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2344 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2345 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2348 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2350 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2351 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2352 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2353 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2354 identical. For example:
2356 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2358 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2359 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2360 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2362 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2363 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2364 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2365 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2367 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2368 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2369 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2372 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2374 o fixes some comments
2375 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2376 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2377 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2378 and documents the missing references header update
2382 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2383 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2386 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2387 Electronic Mail") by including:
2389 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2391 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2392 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2393 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2394 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2395 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2397 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2399 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2401 The auto-replied keyword:
2403 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2404 message by an automatic process,
2406 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2408 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2409 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2411 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2412 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2415 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2416 to the default Received: header definition.
2418 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2420 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2421 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2422 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2424 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2425 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2426 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2428 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2429 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2430 and treats the condition as false.
2432 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2434 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2435 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2436 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2437 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2438 not changing the active code.
2440 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2441 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2443 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2444 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2446 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2449 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2450 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2451 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2452 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2453 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2454 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2455 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2456 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2457 the text comparison.
2459 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2460 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2461 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2462 The same fix has been applied.
2468 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2469 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2472 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2473 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2475 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2477 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2478 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2479 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2480 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2481 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2483 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2484 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2485 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2486 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2489 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2497 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2498 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2500 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2502 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2504 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2505 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2506 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2508 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2509 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2510 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2512 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2513 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2516 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2517 ${stat: expansion item.
2519 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2520 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2522 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2523 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2526 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2528 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2531 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2532 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2534 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2536 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2537 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2538 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2539 the end of the subprocess.
2541 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2542 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2543 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2544 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2545 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2547 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2549 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2551 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2552 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2554 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2556 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2558 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2559 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2562 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2564 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2565 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2566 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2568 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2569 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2571 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2572 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2574 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2575 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2577 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2578 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2580 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2581 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2582 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2583 contributed by a Radius user.
2585 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2586 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2588 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2589 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2591 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2594 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2595 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2598 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2599 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2600 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2601 header lines when this was not necessary.
2603 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2605 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2606 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2607 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2610 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2613 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2614 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2615 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2616 return code was incorrect.
2618 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2620 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2622 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2624 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2626 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2627 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2628 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2629 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2630 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2633 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2635 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2636 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2637 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2638 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2639 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2640 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2641 which is clearly wrong.
2643 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2645 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2646 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2647 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2650 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2651 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2653 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2655 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2656 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2658 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2659 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2661 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2662 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2664 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2665 recipients, not senders.
2667 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2668 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2670 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2672 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2674 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2675 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2676 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2677 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2679 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2681 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2682 clock is set back in time.
2684 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2685 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2687 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2688 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2690 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2691 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2694 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2695 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2698 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2701 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2703 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2704 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2705 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2707 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2708 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2709 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2710 helo verification defer as a failure.
2712 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2713 actual error message.
2719 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2721 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2722 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2723 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2724 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2726 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2728 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2729 can still be requested.
2731 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2732 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2733 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2734 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2736 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2737 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2738 circumstances, but probably never did.
2740 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2741 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2742 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2745 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2747 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2748 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2750 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2752 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2754 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2755 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2756 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2757 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2758 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2759 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2761 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2762 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2763 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2764 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2765 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2766 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2768 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2769 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2771 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2772 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2774 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2775 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2777 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2779 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2781 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2783 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2785 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2787 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2789 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2791 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2792 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2793 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2795 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2796 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2797 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2798 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2800 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2801 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2802 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2804 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2805 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2806 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2807 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2809 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2810 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2813 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2814 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2815 should work with maildirs and everything.
2817 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2818 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2820 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2823 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2824 function for BDB 4.3.
2826 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2828 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2829 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2832 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2833 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2834 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2835 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2836 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2837 formatting function string_vformat().
2839 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2840 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2841 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2842 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2843 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2844 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2845 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2846 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2848 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2849 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2852 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2853 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2855 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2856 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2857 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2858 test. It is now used for both.
2860 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2861 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2862 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2863 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2864 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2865 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2867 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2868 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2869 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2872 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2873 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2874 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2876 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2877 experimental DomainKeys support:
2879 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2880 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2881 the control was given.
2883 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2885 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2887 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2889 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2890 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2891 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2894 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2895 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2896 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2897 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2898 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2899 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2902 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2903 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2904 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2905 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2906 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2907 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2909 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2910 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2911 do -d+all out of habit.
2913 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2914 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2917 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2918 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2919 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2920 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2921 record types that Exim uses.
2923 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2924 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2925 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2926 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2927 non-existent file that was broken.
2929 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2930 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2932 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2933 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2934 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2936 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2938 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2939 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2940 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2941 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2942 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2945 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2946 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2947 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2948 at a slight CPU cost.
2950 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2951 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2953 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2956 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2958 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2959 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2965 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2966 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2968 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2970 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2972 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2973 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2975 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2976 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2977 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2978 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2979 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2980 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2983 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2984 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2985 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2986 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2989 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2990 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2991 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2992 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2993 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2994 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2995 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2998 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2999 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3001 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3002 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3003 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3004 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3005 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3006 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3008 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3009 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3010 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3011 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3013 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3016 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3017 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
3019 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3020 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
3021 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3022 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3025 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3027 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3028 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3030 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3031 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3032 to what was transported.)
3034 TF/01 Added $received_time.
3036 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3037 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3038 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3039 spamd_address settings.
3041 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3042 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3043 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3044 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3045 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3047 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3049 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3050 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3051 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3052 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3053 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3055 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3056 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3058 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3059 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3060 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3061 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3062 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3063 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3064 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3067 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3068 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3069 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3070 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3071 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3072 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3073 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3076 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3078 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3079 driver and ACL definitions.
3081 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3082 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3084 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3085 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3086 understands it better than I do:
3088 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3089 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3091 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3092 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3093 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3094 => three warnings about OTP not working
3095 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3097 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3098 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3099 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3100 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3102 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3103 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3105 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3106 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3107 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3109 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3110 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3113 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3114 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3117 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3118 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3119 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3121 warn !verify = sender
3122 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3124 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3125 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3127 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3129 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3130 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3132 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3133 nomenclature these days.)
3135 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3136 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3138 PH/30 In these circumstances:
3139 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3140 . First host does not offer TLS;
3141 . First host accepts first address;
3142 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3143 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3144 . Second host accepts second address.
3145 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3146 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3149 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3150 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3151 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3152 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3153 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3155 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3156 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3158 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3159 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
3161 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3162 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3163 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3165 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3166 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3169 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3171 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3172 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3173 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3174 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3175 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3176 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3177 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3179 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3180 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3181 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3182 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3183 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3185 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3186 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3189 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3190 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3191 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3192 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3193 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3194 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3196 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3198 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3199 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3200 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3201 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3202 printable escape sequences.
3204 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3205 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3208 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3209 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3212 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3213 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3214 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3215 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3216 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3218 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3219 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3220 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3222 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3224 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3225 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3228 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3229 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3230 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3231 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3232 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3233 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3234 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3235 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3236 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3239 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3240 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3241 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3242 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3246 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3247 ----------------------------------------
3249 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3250 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3251 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3252 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3253 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3254 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3257 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
3258 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3259 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3260 historical information.
3266 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3268 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
3269 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
3271 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3272 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3275 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3276 filter fails to execute.
3278 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3279 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3280 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3281 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3282 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3284 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3286 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3287 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3288 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3289 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3291 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3292 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3293 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3294 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3295 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3297 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3299 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3301 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3302 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3303 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3304 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3306 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3307 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3308 sender verification.
3310 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3311 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3313 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3315 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3318 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3319 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3321 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3322 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3324 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3325 information about exactly what failed.
3327 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3329 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3330 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3331 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3333 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3334 It is now set to "smtps".
3336 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3337 ignore_target_hosts.
3339 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3340 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3341 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3342 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3345 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3346 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3347 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3349 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3350 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3351 wake it up if nothing else does.
3353 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3354 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3355 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3358 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3359 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3361 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3363 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3364 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3365 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3366 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3367 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3368 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3369 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3370 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3372 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3373 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3374 than one IP address.
3376 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3377 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3378 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3379 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3381 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3382 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3383 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3384 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3385 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3388 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3389 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3390 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3391 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3393 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3394 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3397 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3398 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3399 $sender_host_address.
3401 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3402 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3403 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3404 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3405 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3408 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3410 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3411 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3413 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3414 just the host names, not the priorities.
3416 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
3417 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3418 controlled by a keyword.
3420 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
3421 multiple records are returned.
3423 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3424 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3427 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3429 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3430 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3432 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3433 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3434 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3436 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3438 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3440 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3442 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3443 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3444 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3445 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3446 because the tests only now provoked it.
3448 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3449 (this can affect the format of dates).
3451 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3452 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3453 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3454 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3456 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3458 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3459 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3460 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3461 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3463 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3464 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3465 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3467 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3470 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3471 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3472 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3473 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3474 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3475 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3478 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3479 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3480 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3483 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3484 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3485 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3487 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3488 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3489 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3490 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3491 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3492 so I produce this patch..."
3494 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3495 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3498 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3499 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3500 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3501 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3504 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3506 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3507 long debug lines gets shown.
3509 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3510 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3512 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3514 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3515 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3516 of $primary_hostname.
3518 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3519 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3520 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3521 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3522 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3523 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3524 by change 4.50/55 above.
3526 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3527 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3528 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3529 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3530 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3531 running as the user.
3534 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3535 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3536 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3539 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3540 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3542 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3543 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3544 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3545 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3546 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3548 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3549 This has been fixed.
3551 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3552 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3553 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3554 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3557 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3559 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3560 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3561 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3562 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3564 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3565 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3567 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3568 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3569 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3571 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3572 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3573 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3576 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3577 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3578 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3580 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3581 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3582 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3583 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3585 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3586 during host lookups.
3588 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3589 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3591 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3593 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3594 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3595 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3596 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3597 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3600 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3601 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3603 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3604 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3605 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3607 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3609 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3610 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3611 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3612 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3613 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3614 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3617 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3618 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3619 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3620 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3621 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3623 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3626 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3628 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3629 "vacation" handling.
3631 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3632 OS variants using glibc.
3634 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3637 ----------------------------------------------------
3638 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3639 ----------------------------------------------------
3645 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3646 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3649 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3650 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3653 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3654 filter fails to execute.
3656 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3657 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3658 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3659 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3660 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3662 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3663 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3664 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3665 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3667 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3668 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3669 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3670 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3671 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3673 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3675 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3676 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3677 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3678 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3680 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3681 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3682 sender verification.
3684 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3685 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3687 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3688 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3690 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3691 ignore_target_hosts.
3693 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3694 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3695 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3696 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3699 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3700 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3701 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3703 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3704 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3705 wake it up if nothing else does.
3707 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3708 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3709 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3712 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3713 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3715 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3717 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3718 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3721 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3722 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3725 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3726 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3727 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3728 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3729 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3732 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3733 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3736 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3737 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3738 $sender_host_address.
3740 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3742 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3743 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3744 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3746 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3749 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3750 (this can affect the format of dates).
3752 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3753 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3754 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3755 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3757 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3758 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3759 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3761 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3762 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3763 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3764 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3766 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3767 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3768 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3770 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3773 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3774 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3775 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3776 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3777 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3778 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3781 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3782 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3783 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3784 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3787 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3788 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3789 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3790 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3791 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3792 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3793 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3795 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3796 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3797 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3798 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3799 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3800 running as the user.
3803 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3804 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3805 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3808 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3809 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3810 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3811 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3812 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3814 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3815 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3816 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3817 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3820 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3821 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3822 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3823 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3824 because the tests only now provoked it.
3830 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3831 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3832 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3833 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3834 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3835 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3836 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3838 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3839 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3842 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3844 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3846 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3847 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3850 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3851 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3852 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3853 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3854 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3856 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3857 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3859 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3861 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3863 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3866 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3867 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3869 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3870 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3871 affecting debugging statements).
3873 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3875 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3876 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3877 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3878 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3879 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3880 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3881 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3882 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3883 after the received time, and all would be well.
3885 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3886 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3887 condition in an expansion string.
3889 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3891 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3892 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3893 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3894 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3895 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3896 job under whatever limits there are.
3898 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3900 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3903 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3904 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3905 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3906 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3909 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3910 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3911 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3912 binary data in such strings.
3914 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3916 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3917 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3918 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3919 failure, which is pointless.
3921 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3923 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3925 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3926 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3927 Sender: header lines.
3929 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3930 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3931 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3933 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3934 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3935 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3936 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3937 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3940 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3941 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3942 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3943 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3944 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3946 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3947 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3948 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3951 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3952 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3954 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3955 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3957 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3959 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3961 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3963 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3966 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3968 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3970 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3971 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3972 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3973 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3975 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3976 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3982 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3983 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3984 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3986 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3987 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3988 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3989 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3990 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3991 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3993 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3994 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3995 verification failure".
3997 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3998 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3999 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4000 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4002 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4003 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4004 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4005 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4006 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4007 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4008 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4009 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4010 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4011 treated as a timeout.
4013 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4014 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4015 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4016 not set for Exim filters).
4018 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4019 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4020 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4022 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4024 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4025 try to make them clearer.
4027 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4028 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4030 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4032 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4034 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4035 only the Cygwin environment.
4037 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4038 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4039 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4040 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4041 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4043 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4044 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4045 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4046 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4047 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4048 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4049 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4051 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4052 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4054 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4056 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4057 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4058 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4060 To: susanne@some.where
4062 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4063 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4064 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4065 of addresses in From: header lines).
4067 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4068 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4069 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4071 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4072 treated as non-personal.
4074 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4075 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4077 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4079 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4081 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4082 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4083 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4085 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4086 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4088 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4089 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4090 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4091 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4092 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4093 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4095 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4096 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4097 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4098 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4099 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4100 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4101 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4102 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4104 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4106 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4107 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4109 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4110 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4111 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4113 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4114 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4116 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4117 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4118 rather than long int.
4120 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4122 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4128 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4129 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4130 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4131 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4132 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4133 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4139 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4140 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4142 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4143 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4144 socklen_t is defined.
4146 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4149 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4152 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4153 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4154 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4155 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4156 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4158 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4159 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4160 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4161 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4163 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4164 of flapping under certain conditions.
4166 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4167 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4168 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4170 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4172 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4174 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4175 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4176 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4177 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4179 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4180 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4181 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4182 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4183 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4184 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4185 preserved with the message after it was received.
4187 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4188 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4189 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4190 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4191 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4192 test suite worked just fine.
4194 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4195 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4196 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4198 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4199 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4202 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4203 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4204 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4205 does not fully solve it.
4207 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4208 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4209 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4210 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4211 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4213 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4214 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4215 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4217 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4218 string, for example:
4220 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4222 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4223 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4224 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4225 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4226 the routers could not see them.
4228 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4229 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4231 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4232 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4235 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4236 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4237 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4238 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4239 that needed quoting.
4241 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4242 was not being matched caselessly.
4244 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4247 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4248 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4249 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4250 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4251 when use_sender is false.
4253 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4255 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4257 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4259 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4260 the configuration file.
4262 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4263 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4265 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4267 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4268 bytes in the message body.
4270 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4271 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4274 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4276 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4278 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4279 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4280 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4281 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4288 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4289 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4291 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4292 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4293 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4294 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4295 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4297 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4298 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4300 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4301 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4302 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4304 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4305 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4306 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4308 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4311 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4312 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4313 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4314 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4315 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4316 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4317 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4323 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4324 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4325 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4326 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4327 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4328 default (and expected) setting.
4330 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4331 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4332 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4333 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4335 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4336 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4338 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4341 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4342 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4343 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4344 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4345 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4346 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4348 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4349 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4350 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4352 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4353 part (NOT match_host).
4355 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4357 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4358 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4359 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4360 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4361 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4362 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4363 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4364 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4365 the same named file.
4367 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4368 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4371 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4372 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4373 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4374 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4377 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4378 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4379 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4381 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4383 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4385 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4387 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4388 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4390 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4391 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4392 before starting the TLS session.
4394 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4396 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4397 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4399 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4400 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4401 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4402 colon in the middle).
4408 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4409 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4410 multiple configurations are in use.
4412 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4413 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4414 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4415 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4416 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4417 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4419 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4420 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4422 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4423 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4424 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4426 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4427 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4430 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4431 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4433 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4435 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4436 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4438 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4446 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4447 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4448 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4449 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4450 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4452 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4455 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4456 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4457 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4458 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4459 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4460 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4462 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4463 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4464 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4465 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4466 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4467 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4468 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4471 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4472 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4473 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4474 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4475 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4477 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4479 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4480 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4481 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4483 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4485 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4486 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4487 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4490 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4491 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4493 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4494 Three changes have been made:
4496 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4497 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4498 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4499 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4500 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4502 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4505 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4506 the modified behaviour.
4512 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4515 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4516 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4518 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4519 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4520 try to track down a specific problem.
4522 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4523 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4524 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4526 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4529 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4530 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4531 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4532 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4533 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4534 some earlier ones do not.
4536 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4538 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4539 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4540 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4541 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4542 address literals are enabled, of course).
4544 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4546 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4547 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4548 by a command such as
4552 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4554 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4556 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4557 remained set. It is now erased.
4559 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4560 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4562 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4563 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4564 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4565 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4566 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4567 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4568 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4569 appropriate error code.
4571 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4572 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4573 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4574 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4575 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4576 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4578 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4579 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4580 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4582 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4583 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4584 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4585 terminate the header.
4587 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4588 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4589 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4591 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4592 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4593 (4.30/29). In particular:
4595 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4598 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4599 to write a maildirsize file.
4601 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4602 the transport, the new value overrides.
4604 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4607 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4608 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4609 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4612 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4613 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4614 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4617 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4618 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4619 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4621 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4622 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4625 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4626 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4627 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4629 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4631 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4633 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4635 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4636 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4639 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4640 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4641 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4642 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4643 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4644 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4645 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4648 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4649 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4650 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4651 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4652 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4655 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4656 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4657 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4658 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4659 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4660 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4661 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4662 cached value only when the same options are set.
4664 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4666 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4667 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4668 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4669 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4670 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4672 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4673 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4674 it is clearly obsolete.
4676 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4679 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4680 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4681 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4684 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4685 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4686 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4687 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4688 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4690 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4691 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4692 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4693 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4695 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4697 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4699 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4700 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4703 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4704 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4705 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4706 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4707 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4708 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4711 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4712 with the -f command-line option.
4714 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4715 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4716 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4717 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4718 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4719 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4721 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4722 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4725 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4726 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4727 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4728 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4729 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4730 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4731 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4732 buffer is too small.
4734 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4735 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4737 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4738 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4739 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4740 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4741 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4742 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4743 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4744 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4745 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4747 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4748 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4749 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4751 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4752 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4755 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4756 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4757 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4758 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4759 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4761 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4762 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4763 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4764 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4767 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4769 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4771 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4772 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4774 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4775 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4776 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4778 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4779 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4780 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4781 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4782 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4784 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4785 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4786 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4787 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4788 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4789 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4790 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4792 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4793 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4794 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4795 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4796 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4797 the test of how many are available.
4799 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4800 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4801 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4802 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4803 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4804 new message is started.
4806 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4807 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4809 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4810 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4812 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4813 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4814 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4817 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4818 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4819 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4820 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4821 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4822 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4823 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4825 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4826 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4827 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4828 interpreted as octal.
4830 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4833 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4834 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4835 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4836 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4837 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4838 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4840 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4841 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4842 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4843 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4845 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4846 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4847 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4848 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4850 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4851 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4854 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4855 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4857 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4859 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4860 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4861 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4862 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4864 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4865 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4866 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4867 supplied", which is not helpful.
4869 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4870 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4871 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4873 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4874 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4875 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4876 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4877 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4878 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4879 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4880 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4882 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4883 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4884 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4885 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4886 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4888 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4889 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4890 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4891 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4892 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4893 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4895 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4896 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4897 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4899 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
4901 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4902 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4903 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4906 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4908 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4909 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4910 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4911 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4912 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4913 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4914 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4915 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4917 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4918 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4919 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4920 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4921 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4923 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4926 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4927 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4928 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4929 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4930 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4931 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4932 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4933 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4934 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4940 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4941 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4942 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4944 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4947 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4948 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4949 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4951 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4952 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4953 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4954 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4955 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4956 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4958 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4959 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4960 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4961 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4962 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4963 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4964 the Exim test suite.
4966 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4967 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4968 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4969 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4971 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4972 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4973 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4974 specify it in this variable.
4976 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4977 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4978 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4979 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4981 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4982 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4983 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4984 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4986 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4987 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4988 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4989 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4990 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4992 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4994 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4997 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4998 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4999 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5000 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5001 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5003 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5004 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5006 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5007 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5008 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5009 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5010 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5012 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5013 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5015 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5016 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5017 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5019 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5020 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5022 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5023 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5025 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5026 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5027 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5029 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5030 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5032 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5033 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5034 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5035 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5037 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5039 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5040 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5041 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5042 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5044 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5046 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5047 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5049 25. Added .include_if_exists.
5051 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5052 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5053 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5054 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5055 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5056 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5058 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5060 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5061 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5064 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5066 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5067 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5069 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5070 550 Sender verify failed
5072 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5073 the final line of the response.
5075 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5076 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5077 all other user lookups.
5079 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5082 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5083 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5084 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5085 result into an int without checking.
5087 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5088 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5089 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5091 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5092 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5093 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5094 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5096 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5099 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5100 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5102 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5103 to the empty sender.
5105 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5106 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5107 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5108 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5109 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5110 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5111 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5114 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5115 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5116 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5117 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5120 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5121 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5123 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5126 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5127 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5129 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5131 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5132 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5135 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5136 as soon as it is encountered.
5138 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5140 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5143 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5144 recognizes a tab character.
5146 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5147 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5148 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5149 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5151 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5153 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5156 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5158 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5160 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5161 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5164 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5165 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5166 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5167 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5168 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5170 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5171 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5173 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5174 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5175 list (.included file names were always shown).
5177 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5178 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5179 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5182 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5183 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5185 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5187 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5189 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5191 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5192 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5193 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5194 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5195 failures to open the logs.
5197 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5198 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5199 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5200 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5201 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5202 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5203 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5209 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5210 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5211 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5214 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5215 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5216 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5218 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5219 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5220 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5222 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5223 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5224 causing some misleading effects.
5226 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5227 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5228 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5230 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5231 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5232 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5233 queue-runner function directly.
5239 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5242 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5243 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5244 was always written to the default place.
5246 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5247 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5248 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5250 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5252 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5254 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5255 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5256 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5258 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5259 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5262 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5263 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5264 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5266 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5267 command line option is disabled.
5269 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5270 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5272 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5274 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5276 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5277 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5279 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5281 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5282 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5283 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5284 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5285 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5286 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5288 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5289 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5292 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5293 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5295 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5296 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5298 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5299 received was valid base64.
5301 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5302 name of the variable that was being set.
5304 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5306 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5307 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5308 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5309 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5310 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5311 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5313 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5315 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5316 nor realm was specified.
5318 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5319 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5320 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5321 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5323 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5324 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5325 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5327 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5328 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5329 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5331 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5332 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5333 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5334 some systems use these upper case variants.
5336 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5337 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5338 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5339 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5341 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5343 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5344 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5346 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5347 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5350 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5352 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5353 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5354 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5355 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5357 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5360 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5361 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5362 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5364 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5365 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5367 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5368 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5369 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5370 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5372 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5373 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5374 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5376 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5378 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5379 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5380 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5381 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5384 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5385 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5386 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5388 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5390 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5391 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5393 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5394 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5396 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5397 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5398 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5399 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5400 when emails are that large.
5407 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5408 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5410 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5411 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5412 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5414 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5415 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5416 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5418 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5419 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5420 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5421 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5422 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5424 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5425 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5426 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5427 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5428 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5431 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5432 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5433 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5434 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5435 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5436 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5437 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5438 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5439 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5440 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5441 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5442 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5443 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5444 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5446 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5447 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5450 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5451 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5452 error should be diagnosed.
5454 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5455 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5456 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5457 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5458 appeared instead of "NULL".
5460 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5461 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5462 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5463 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5464 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5465 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5468 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5469 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5470 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5476 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5477 or receiver verification errors.
5479 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5482 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5483 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5484 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5485 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5487 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5488 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5489 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5490 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5491 shouldn't happen again.
5493 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5494 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5495 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5497 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5498 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5500 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5502 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5503 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5505 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5506 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5509 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5510 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5511 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5513 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5514 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5515 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5516 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5518 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5519 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5520 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5521 to define what should happen).
5523 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5524 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5525 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5527 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5529 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5531 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5532 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5534 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5535 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5536 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5537 structure in all cases.
5539 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5540 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5541 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5542 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5544 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5545 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5548 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5549 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5551 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5552 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5554 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5555 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5556 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5558 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5559 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5560 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5562 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5563 the book and for uniformity.
5565 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5567 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5568 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5569 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5570 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5571 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5572 non-existent command as the problem.
5574 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5575 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5576 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5578 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5580 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5581 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5582 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5584 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5585 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5586 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5587 timestamps using strftime().
5589 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5590 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5592 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5593 transport-time rewrites.
5595 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5596 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5597 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5598 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5600 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5601 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5603 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5604 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5605 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5606 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5609 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5610 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5611 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5612 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5613 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5614 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5615 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5617 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5618 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5619 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5620 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5621 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5623 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5624 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5625 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5626 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5627 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5628 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5629 remaining text gets split now.
5631 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5632 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5633 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5634 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5636 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5637 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5638 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5639 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5642 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5643 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5644 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5645 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5646 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5647 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5648 passed through if needed.
5650 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5651 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5652 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5653 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5654 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5655 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5657 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5658 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5659 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5660 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5661 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5663 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5664 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5665 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5666 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5667 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5669 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5670 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5673 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5674 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5675 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5676 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5677 mayhem of various kinds.
5679 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5680 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5681 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5682 the right test for positive values.
5684 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5685 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5686 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5687 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5688 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5689 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5690 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5691 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5692 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5693 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5696 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5699 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5700 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5703 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5704 the existing equality matching.
5706 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5707 dealing with inode numbers.
5709 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5710 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5711 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5713 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5714 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5715 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5716 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5719 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5720 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5721 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5722 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5723 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5724 relay addresses has also been removed.
5726 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5728 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5729 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5730 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5732 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5733 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5734 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5735 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5736 processing applies to CR:
5738 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5739 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5741 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5742 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5743 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5744 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5746 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5747 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5748 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5750 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5751 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5752 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5753 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5754 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5755 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5758 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5761 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5762 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5763 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5764 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5767 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5769 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5771 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5773 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5774 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5775 not considered personal.
5777 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5779 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5781 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5783 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5784 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5785 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5786 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5787 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5788 header lines, and spool format errors.
5790 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5791 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5792 for more flexibility.
5794 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5795 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5796 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5798 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5801 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5802 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5803 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5804 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5805 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5806 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5807 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5808 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5809 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5811 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5812 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5813 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5814 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5815 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5816 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5817 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5819 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5820 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5821 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5823 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5824 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5825 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5826 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5827 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5828 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5829 instead of killing the process with assert().
5831 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5832 than Unicode encoding.
5834 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5835 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5836 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5837 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5839 77. Added process_log_path.
5841 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5842 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5844 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5845 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5847 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5848 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5849 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5851 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5852 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5853 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5854 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5855 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5858 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5859 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5862 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5863 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5864 they will be used during message reception.
5870 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.