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3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
10 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
11 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
12 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
15 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
16 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
17 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
19 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
20 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
21 hence the _LINUX specificness.
23 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
24 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
25 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
28 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
29 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
30 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
31 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
32 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
33 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
34 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
35 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
36 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
37 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
38 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
40 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
43 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
44 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
45 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
46 ignores EPIPE as well.
48 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
49 (quoted-printable decoding).
51 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
52 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
54 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
56 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
58 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
60 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
61 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
63 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
66 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
67 miscellaneous code fixes
69 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
72 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
73 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
74 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
75 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
76 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
77 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
78 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
79 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
81 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
82 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
83 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
84 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
86 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
87 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
88 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
89 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
90 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
91 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
92 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
93 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
94 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
96 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
99 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
100 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
101 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
102 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
103 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
104 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
105 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
106 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
108 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
109 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
112 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
113 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
114 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
115 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
116 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
117 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
118 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
119 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
120 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
121 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
122 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
123 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
124 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
126 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
127 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
128 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
129 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
130 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
131 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
132 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
134 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
135 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
136 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
137 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
138 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
139 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
140 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
141 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
142 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
143 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
145 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
146 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
147 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
148 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
149 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
151 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
152 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
153 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
154 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
155 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
156 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
157 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
159 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
160 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
161 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
162 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
163 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
164 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
167 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
168 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
169 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
172 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
173 if any retry times were supplied.
175 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
176 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
177 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
179 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
181 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
183 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
184 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
185 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
186 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
187 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
190 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
191 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
193 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
194 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
195 committing the later change.]
197 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
198 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
199 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
200 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
201 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
202 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
203 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
204 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
205 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
207 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
208 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
209 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
210 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
211 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
212 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
213 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
214 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
215 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
217 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
218 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
219 hammering the server.
221 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
222 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
224 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
226 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
227 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
228 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
230 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
231 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
232 one case where this was not true.
234 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
235 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
236 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
237 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
240 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
241 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
242 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
243 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
244 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
245 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
246 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
247 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
248 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
251 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
252 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
253 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
254 same for both kinds of LMTP.
256 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
257 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
259 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
260 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
261 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
263 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
265 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
267 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
269 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
270 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
271 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
272 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
274 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
275 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
277 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
278 be meaningful with "accept".
280 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
281 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
283 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
284 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
285 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
287 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
288 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
289 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
290 there is data to show.
291 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
293 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
294 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
295 as well as the number of messages.
297 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
298 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
299 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
301 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
302 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
303 have a flag are now skipped.
305 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
306 Added the -emptyok flag.
308 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
309 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
311 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
312 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
313 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
315 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
318 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
319 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
321 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
323 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
324 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
326 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
328 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
329 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
330 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
331 contravention of the specifications.
333 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
334 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
335 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
337 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
338 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
339 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
341 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
343 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
344 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
345 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
346 some point in the past.
348 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
349 transport during callout processing was broken.
351 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
352 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
354 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
355 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
357 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
358 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
364 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
365 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
367 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
368 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
369 there is data to show.
370 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
372 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
373 as the number of messages in eximstats.
375 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
376 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
378 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
379 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
381 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
382 submissions from trusted users.
384 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
385 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
387 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
388 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
389 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
390 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
391 there is now a framework to start from.
393 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
394 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
395 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
397 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
399 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
401 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
403 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
404 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
405 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
407 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
410 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
411 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
412 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
414 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
415 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
416 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
419 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
420 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
421 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
422 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
423 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
425 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
426 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
428 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
430 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
431 operations in malware.c.
433 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
436 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
437 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
438 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
441 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
442 statements to "add_header".
444 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
445 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
447 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
448 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
451 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
455 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
456 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
457 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
460 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
461 don't think Precedence: ever was.
463 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
464 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
466 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
467 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
468 any possible encoding problems.
470 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
471 but not after initializing Perl.
473 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
474 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
475 apparently, which is not desirable.
477 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
480 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
483 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
485 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
486 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
487 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
488 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
490 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
491 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
492 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
494 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
495 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
496 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
499 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
500 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
501 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
502 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
503 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
509 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
510 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
512 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
515 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
516 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
517 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
518 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
519 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
520 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
521 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
522 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
525 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
527 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
528 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
529 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
531 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
532 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
533 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
536 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
537 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
539 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
540 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
541 option (which defaults to 0600).
543 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
545 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
546 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
547 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
548 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
549 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
550 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
551 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
553 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
559 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
560 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
561 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
562 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
563 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
564 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
567 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
568 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
570 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
572 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
573 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
574 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
575 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
576 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
579 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
580 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
582 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
583 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
584 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
585 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
586 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
588 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
589 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
590 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
591 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
593 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
594 be the same on different OS.
596 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
599 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
600 whether --show-vars was specified or not
602 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
605 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
606 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
607 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
608 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
609 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
610 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
613 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
614 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
615 when Exim was called.
617 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
618 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
620 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
621 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
622 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
623 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
625 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
626 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
627 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
628 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
631 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
632 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
633 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
635 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
636 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
637 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
639 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
642 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
643 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
644 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
645 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
646 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
647 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
648 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
649 values from the SRV records were lost.
651 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
652 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
653 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
655 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
656 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
657 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
659 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
660 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
661 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
662 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
663 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
664 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
665 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
666 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
667 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
668 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
670 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
671 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
672 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
674 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
675 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
677 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
678 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
679 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
680 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
683 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
684 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
685 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
687 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
688 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
691 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
692 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
693 (for which there is an explicit test).
695 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
697 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
698 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
699 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
700 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
701 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
703 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
704 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
705 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
706 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
708 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
709 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
710 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
712 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
714 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
716 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
717 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
718 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
720 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
721 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
722 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
723 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
724 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
726 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
727 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
728 the message gets confusing).
730 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
731 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
732 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
733 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
735 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
736 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
737 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
738 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
741 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
742 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
743 the different processes.
745 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
747 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
749 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
750 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
752 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
753 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
755 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
756 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
757 messages matching specified criteria.
759 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
761 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
762 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
764 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
765 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
766 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
767 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
768 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
769 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
770 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
771 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
772 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
773 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
775 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
776 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
777 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
779 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
781 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
782 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
783 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
784 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
785 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
786 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
787 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
790 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
791 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
793 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
795 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
797 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
799 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
800 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
801 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
802 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
803 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
804 size of the count of files.
806 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
808 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
811 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
812 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
813 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
814 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
816 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
817 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
818 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
820 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
821 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
822 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
823 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
824 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
826 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
827 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
829 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
830 will now be deprecated.
832 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
834 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
835 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
836 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
838 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
839 with very large, slow to parse queues
841 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
843 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
845 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
846 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
847 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
850 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
851 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
852 Sieve code now uses this.
854 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
855 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
857 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
858 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
860 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
862 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
863 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
864 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
865 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
866 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
868 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
869 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
870 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
871 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
873 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
875 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
877 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
878 is preferred over IPv4.
880 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
881 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
882 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
883 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
884 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
885 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
886 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
888 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
889 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
890 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
892 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
894 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
895 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
896 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
897 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
898 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
899 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
900 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
901 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
902 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
903 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
904 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
906 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
907 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
908 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
914 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
916 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
917 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
919 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
920 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
921 statements are most likely to be submissions.
923 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
925 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
928 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
931 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
932 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
933 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
936 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
937 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
939 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
940 inside the third argument.
942 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
943 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
946 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
947 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
949 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
950 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
952 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
954 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
955 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
958 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
960 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
961 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
962 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
963 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
964 identical. For example:
966 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
968 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
969 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
970 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
972 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
973 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
974 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
975 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
977 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
978 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
979 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
982 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
984 o fixes some comments
985 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
986 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
987 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
988 and documents the missing references header update
992 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
993 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
996 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
997 Electronic Mail") by including:
999 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1001 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1002 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1003 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1004 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1005 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1007 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1009 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1011 The auto-replied keyword:
1013 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1014 message by an automatic process,
1016 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1018 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1019 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1021 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1022 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1025 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1026 to the default Received: header definition.
1028 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1030 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1031 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1032 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1034 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1035 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1036 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1038 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1039 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1040 and treats the condition as false.
1042 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1044 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1045 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1046 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1047 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1048 not changing the active code.
1050 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1051 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1053 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1054 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1056 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1059 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1060 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1061 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1062 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1063 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1064 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1065 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1066 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1067 the text comparison.
1069 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1070 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1071 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1072 The same fix has been applied.
1078 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1079 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1082 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1083 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1085 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1087 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1088 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1089 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1090 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1091 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1093 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1094 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1095 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1096 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1099 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1107 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1108 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1110 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1112 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1114 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1115 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1116 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1118 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1119 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1120 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1122 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1123 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1126 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1127 ${stat: expansion item.
1129 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1130 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1132 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1133 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1136 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1138 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1141 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1142 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1144 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1146 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1147 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1148 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1149 the end of the subprocess.
1151 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1152 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1153 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1154 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1155 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1157 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1159 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1161 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1162 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1164 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1166 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1168 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1169 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1172 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1174 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1175 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1176 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1178 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1179 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1181 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1182 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1184 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1185 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1187 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1188 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1190 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1191 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1192 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1193 contributed by a Radius user.
1195 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1196 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1198 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1199 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1201 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1204 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1205 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1208 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1209 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1210 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1211 header lines when this was not necessary.
1213 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1215 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1216 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1217 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1220 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1223 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1224 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1225 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1226 return code was incorrect.
1228 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1230 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1232 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1234 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1236 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1237 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1238 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1239 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1240 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1243 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1245 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1246 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1247 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1248 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1249 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1250 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1251 which is clearly wrong.
1253 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1255 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1256 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1257 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1260 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1261 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1263 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1265 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1266 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1268 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1269 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1271 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1272 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1274 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1275 recipients, not senders.
1277 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1278 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1280 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1282 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1284 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1285 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1286 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1287 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1289 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1291 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1292 clock is set back in time.
1294 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1295 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1297 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1298 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1300 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1301 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1304 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1305 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1308 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1311 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1313 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1314 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1315 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1317 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1318 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1319 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1320 helo verification defer as a failure.
1322 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1323 actual error message.
1329 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1331 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1332 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1333 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1334 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1336 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1338 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1339 can still be requested.
1341 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1342 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1343 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1344 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1346 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1347 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1348 circumstances, but probably never did.
1350 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1351 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1352 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1355 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1357 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1358 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
1360 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1362 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1364 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1365 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1366 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1367 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1368 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1369 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
1371 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1372 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1373 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1374 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1375 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1376 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1378 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1379 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1381 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1382 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1384 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1385 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1387 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1389 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1391 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1393 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1395 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1397 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1399 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1401 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1402 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1403 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1405 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1406 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1407 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1408 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1410 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1411 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1412 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1414 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1415 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1416 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1417 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1419 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1420 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1423 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1424 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1425 should work with maildirs and everything.
1427 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1428 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1430 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1433 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1434 function for BDB 4.3.
1436 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1438 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1439 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1442 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1443 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1444 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
1445 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1446 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1447 formatting function string_vformat().
1449 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1450 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1451 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1452 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1453 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1454 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1455 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1456 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1458 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1459 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1462 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1463 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1465 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1466 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1467 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1468 test. It is now used for both.
1470 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1471 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1472 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1473 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1474 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1475 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1477 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1478 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1479 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1482 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1483 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1484 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
1486 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1487 experimental DomainKeys support:
1489 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1490 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1491 the control was given.
1493 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1495 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1497 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1499 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1500 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1501 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1504 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
1505 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1506 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1507 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1508 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1509 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1512 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1513 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1514 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1515 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1516 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1517 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1519 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1520 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1521 do -d+all out of habit.
1523 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1524 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1527 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1528 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1529 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1530 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1531 record types that Exim uses.
1533 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1534 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1535 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1536 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1537 non-existent file that was broken.
1539 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1540 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1542 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1543 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1544 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1546 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1548 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1549 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1550 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1551 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1552 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1555 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1556 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1557 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1558 at a slight CPU cost.
1560 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1561 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1563 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1566 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1568 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1569 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1575 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1576 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1578 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1580 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1582 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1583 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1585 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1586 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1587 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1588 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1589 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1590 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1593 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1594 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1595 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1596 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1599 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1600 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1601 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1602 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1603 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1604 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1605 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
1608 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1609 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1611 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1612 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1613 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1614 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1615 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1616 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1618 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1619 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1620 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1621 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1623 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1626 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1627 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
1629 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1630 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
1631 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1632 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1635 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1637 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1638 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1640 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1641 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1642 to what was transported.)
1644 TF/01 Added $received_time.
1646 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1647 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1648 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1649 spamd_address settings.
1651 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1652 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1653 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1654 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1655 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1657 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1659 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1660 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1661 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1662 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1663 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1665 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1666 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1668 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1669 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1670 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1671 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1672 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1673 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1674 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1677 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1678 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1679 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1680 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1681 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1682 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1683 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1686 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1688 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1689 driver and ACL definitions.
1691 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1692 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1694 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1695 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1696 understands it better than I do:
1698 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1699 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1701 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1702 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1703 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1704 => three warnings about OTP not working
1705 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1707 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1708 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1709 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1710 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1712 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1713 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1715 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1716 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1717 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1719 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1720 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1723 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1724 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1727 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1728 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1729 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1731 warn !verify = sender
1732 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1734 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1735 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1737 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1739 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1740 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1742 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1743 nomenclature these days.)
1745 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1746 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1748 PH/30 In these circumstances:
1749 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1750 . First host does not offer TLS;
1751 . First host accepts first address;
1752 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1753 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1754 . Second host accepts second address.
1755 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1756 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1759 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1760 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1761 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1762 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1763 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1765 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1766 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1768 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1769 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
1771 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1772 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1773 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1775 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1776 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1779 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1781 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1782 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1783 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1784 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1785 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1786 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1787 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1789 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1790 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1791 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1792 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1793 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1795 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1796 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1799 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1800 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1801 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1802 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1803 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1804 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1806 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1808 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1809 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1810 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1811 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1812 printable escape sequences.
1814 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1815 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1818 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1819 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1822 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1823 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1824 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1825 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1826 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1828 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1829 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1830 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1832 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1834 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1835 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1838 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1839 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1840 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1841 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1842 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1843 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1844 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1845 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1846 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1849 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1850 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1851 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1852 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1856 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1857 ----------------------------------------
1859 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1860 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1861 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1862 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1863 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1864 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1867 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
1868 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1869 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1870 historical information.
1876 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1878 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
1879 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
1881 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1882 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1885 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1886 filter fails to execute.
1888 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1889 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1890 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1891 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1892 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1894 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1896 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1897 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1898 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1899 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1901 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1902 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1903 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1904 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1905 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1907 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1909 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1911 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1912 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1913 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1914 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1916 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1917 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1918 sender verification.
1920 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1921 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1923 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1925 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1928 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1929 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1931 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1932 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1934 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1935 information about exactly what failed.
1937 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1939 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1940 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1941 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1943 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1944 It is now set to "smtps".
1946 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1947 ignore_target_hosts.
1949 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1950 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1951 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1952 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1955 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1956 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1957 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1959 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1960 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1961 wake it up if nothing else does.
1963 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1964 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1965 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1968 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1969 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1971 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1973 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1974 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1975 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1976 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1977 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1978 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1979 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1980 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1982 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1983 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1984 than one IP address.
1986 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1987 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1988 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1989 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1991 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1992 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1993 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1994 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1995 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1998 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1999 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2000 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2001 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2003 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2004 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2007 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2008 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2009 $sender_host_address.
2011 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2012 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2013 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2014 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2015 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2018 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2020 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2021 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2023 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2024 just the host names, not the priorities.
2026 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
2027 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2028 controlled by a keyword.
2030 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
2031 multiple records are returned.
2033 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2034 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2037 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2039 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2040 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2042 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2043 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2044 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2046 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2048 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2050 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2052 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2053 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2054 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2055 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2056 because the tests only now provoked it.
2058 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2059 (this can affect the format of dates).
2061 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2062 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2063 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2064 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2066 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2068 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2069 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2070 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2071 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2073 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2074 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2075 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2077 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2080 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2081 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2082 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2083 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2084 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2085 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2088 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2089 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2090 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2093 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2094 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2095 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2097 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2098 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2099 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2100 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2101 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2102 so I produce this patch..."
2104 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2105 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2108 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2109 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2110 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2111 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2114 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2116 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2117 long debug lines gets shown.
2119 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2120 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2122 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2124 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2125 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2126 of $primary_hostname.
2128 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2129 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2130 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2131 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2132 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2133 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2134 by change 4.50/55 above.
2136 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2137 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2138 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2139 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2140 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2141 running as the user.
2144 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2145 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2146 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
2149 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2150 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2152 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2153 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2154 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2155 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2156 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2158 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2159 This has been fixed.
2161 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2162 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2163 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2164 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2167 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2169 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2170 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2171 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2172 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2174 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2175 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2177 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2178 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2179 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2181 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2182 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2183 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2186 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2187 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2188 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2190 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2191 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2192 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2193 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2195 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2196 during host lookups.
2198 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2199 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2201 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2203 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2204 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2205 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2206 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2207 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2210 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2211 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2213 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2214 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2215 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2217 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2219 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2220 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2221 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2222 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2223 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2224 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2227 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2228 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2229 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2230 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2231 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2233 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2236 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2238 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2239 "vacation" handling.
2241 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2242 OS variants using glibc.
2244 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2247 ----------------------------------------------------
2248 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2249 ----------------------------------------------------
2255 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2256 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2259 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2260 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2263 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2264 filter fails to execute.
2266 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2267 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2268 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2269 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2270 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2272 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2273 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2274 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2275 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2277 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2278 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2279 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2280 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2281 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2283 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2285 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2286 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2287 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2288 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2290 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2291 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2292 sender verification.
2294 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2295 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2297 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2298 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2300 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2301 ignore_target_hosts.
2303 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2304 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2305 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2306 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2309 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2310 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2311 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2313 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2314 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2315 wake it up if nothing else does.
2317 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2318 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2319 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2322 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2323 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2325 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
2327 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2328 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2331 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2332 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2335 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2336 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2337 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2338 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2339 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2342 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2343 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2346 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2347 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2348 $sender_host_address.
2350 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2352 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2353 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2354 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2356 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
2359 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2360 (this can affect the format of dates).
2362 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2363 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2364 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2365 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2367 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2368 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2369 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2371 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2372 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2373 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2374 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2376 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2377 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2378 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2380 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2383 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2384 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2385 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2386 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2387 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2388 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2391 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2392 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2393 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2394 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2397 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2398 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2399 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2400 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2401 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2402 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2403 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2405 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2406 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2407 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2408 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2409 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2410 running as the user.
2413 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2414 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2415 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
2418 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2419 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2420 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2421 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2422 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2424 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2425 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2426 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2427 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2430 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2431 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2432 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2433 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2434 because the tests only now provoked it.
2440 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2441 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2442 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2443 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2444 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2445 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2446 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2448 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2449 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2452 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2454 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2456 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2457 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2460 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2461 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2462 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2463 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2464 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2466 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2467 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2469 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2471 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2473 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2476 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2477 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2479 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2480 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2481 affecting debugging statements).
2483 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2485 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2486 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2487 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2488 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2489 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2490 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2491 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2492 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2493 after the received time, and all would be well.
2495 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2496 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2497 condition in an expansion string.
2499 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2501 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2502 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2503 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2504 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2505 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2506 job under whatever limits there are.
2508 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2510 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2513 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2514 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2515 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2516 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2519 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2520 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2521 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2522 binary data in such strings.
2524 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2526 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2527 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2528 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2529 failure, which is pointless.
2531 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2533 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2535 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2536 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2537 Sender: header lines.
2539 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2540 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2541 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2543 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2544 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2545 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2546 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2547 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2550 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2551 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2552 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2553 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2554 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2556 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2557 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2558 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2561 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2562 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2564 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2565 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2567 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2569 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2571 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2573 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2576 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2578 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2580 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2581 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2582 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2583 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2585 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2586 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2592 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2593 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2594 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2596 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2597 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2598 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2599 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2600 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2601 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2603 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2604 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2605 verification failure".
2607 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2608 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2609 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2610 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2612 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2613 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2614 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2615 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2616 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2617 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2618 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2619 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2620 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2621 treated as a timeout.
2623 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2624 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2625 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2626 not set for Exim filters).
2628 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2629 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2630 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2632 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2634 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2635 try to make them clearer.
2637 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2638 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2640 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2642 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2644 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2645 only the Cygwin environment.
2647 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2648 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2649 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2650 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2651 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2653 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2654 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2655 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2656 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2657 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2658 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2659 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2661 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2662 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2664 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2666 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2667 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2668 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2670 To: susanne@some.where
2672 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2673 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2674 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2675 of addresses in From: header lines).
2677 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2678 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2679 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2681 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2682 treated as non-personal.
2684 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2685 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2687 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2689 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2691 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2692 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2693 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2695 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2696 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2698 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2699 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2700 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2701 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2702 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2703 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2705 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2706 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2707 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2708 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2709 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2710 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2711 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2712 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2714 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2716 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2717 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2719 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2720 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2721 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2723 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2724 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2726 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2727 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2728 rather than long int.
2730 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2732 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2738 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2739 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2740 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2741 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2742 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2743 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2749 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2750 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2752 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2753 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2754 socklen_t is defined.
2756 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2759 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2762 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2763 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2764 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2765 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2766 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2768 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2769 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2770 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2771 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2773 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2774 of flapping under certain conditions.
2776 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2777 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2778 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2780 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2782 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2784 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2785 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2786 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2787 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2789 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2790 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2791 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2792 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2793 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2794 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2795 preserved with the message after it was received.
2797 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2798 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2799 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2800 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2801 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2802 test suite worked just fine.
2804 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2805 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2806 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2808 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2809 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2812 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2813 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2814 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2815 does not fully solve it.
2817 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2818 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2819 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2820 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2821 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2823 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2824 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2825 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2827 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2828 string, for example:
2830 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2832 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2833 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2834 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2835 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2836 the routers could not see them.
2838 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2839 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2841 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2842 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2845 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2846 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2847 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2848 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2849 that needed quoting.
2851 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2852 was not being matched caselessly.
2854 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2857 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2858 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2859 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2860 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2861 when use_sender is false.
2863 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2865 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2867 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2869 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2870 the configuration file.
2872 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2873 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2875 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2877 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2878 bytes in the message body.
2880 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2881 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2884 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2886 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2888 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2889 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2890 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2891 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2898 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2899 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2901 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2902 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2903 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2904 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2905 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2907 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2908 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2910 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2911 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2912 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2914 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2915 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2916 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2918 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2921 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2922 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2923 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2924 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2925 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2926 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2927 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2933 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2934 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2935 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2936 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2937 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2938 default (and expected) setting.
2940 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2941 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2942 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2943 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2945 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2946 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2948 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2951 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2952 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2953 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2954 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2955 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2956 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2958 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2959 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2960 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2962 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2963 part (NOT match_host).
2965 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2967 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2968 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2969 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2970 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2971 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2972 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2973 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2974 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2975 the same named file.
2977 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2978 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2981 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2982 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2983 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2984 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2987 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2988 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2989 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2991 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2993 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2995 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2997 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2998 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3000 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3001 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3002 before starting the TLS session.
3004 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3006 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3007 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3009 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3010 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3011 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3012 colon in the middle).
3018 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3019 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3020 multiple configurations are in use.
3022 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3023 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3024 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3025 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3026 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3027 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3029 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3030 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3032 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3033 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3034 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3036 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3037 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3040 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3041 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3043 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3045 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3046 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3048 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3056 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3057 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3058 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3059 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3060 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3062 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3065 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3066 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3067 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3068 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3069 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3070 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3072 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3073 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3074 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3075 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3076 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3077 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3078 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3081 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3082 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3083 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3084 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3085 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3087 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3089 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3090 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3091 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3093 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3095 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3096 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3097 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3100 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3101 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3103 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3104 Three changes have been made:
3106 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3107 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3108 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3109 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3110 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3112 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3115 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3116 the modified behaviour.
3122 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3125 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3126 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3128 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3129 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3130 try to track down a specific problem.
3132 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3133 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3134 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3136 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3139 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3140 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3141 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3142 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3143 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3144 some earlier ones do not.
3146 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3148 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3149 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3150 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3151 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3152 address literals are enabled, of course).
3154 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3156 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3157 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3158 by a command such as
3162 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3164 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3166 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3167 remained set. It is now erased.
3169 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3170 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3172 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3173 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3174 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3175 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3176 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3177 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3178 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3179 appropriate error code.
3181 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3182 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3183 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3184 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3185 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3186 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3188 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3189 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3190 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3192 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3193 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3194 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3195 terminate the header.
3197 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3198 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3199 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3201 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3202 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3203 (4.30/29). In particular:
3205 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3208 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3209 to write a maildirsize file.
3211 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3212 the transport, the new value overrides.
3214 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3217 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3218 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3219 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3222 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3223 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3224 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3227 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3228 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3229 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3231 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3232 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3235 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3236 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3237 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3239 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3241 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3243 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3245 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3246 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3249 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3250 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3251 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3252 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3253 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3254 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3255 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3258 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3259 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3260 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3261 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3262 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3265 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3266 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3267 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3268 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3269 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3270 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3271 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3272 cached value only when the same options are set.
3274 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3276 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3277 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3278 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3279 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3280 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3282 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3283 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3284 it is clearly obsolete.
3286 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3289 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3290 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3291 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3294 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3295 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3296 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3297 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3298 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3300 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3301 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3302 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3303 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3305 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3307 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3309 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3310 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3313 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3314 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3315 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3316 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3317 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3318 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3321 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3322 with the -f command-line option.
3324 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
3325 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
3326 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
3327 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
3328 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
3329 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3331 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
3332 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
3335 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
3336 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
3337 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
3338 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
3339 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
3340 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
3341 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
3342 buffer is too small.
3344 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
3345 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
3347 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
3348 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
3349 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
3350 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
3351 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
3352 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
3353 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
3354 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
3355 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
3357 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
3358 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
3359 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
3361 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
3362 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
3365 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
3366 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
3367 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
3368 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
3369 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
3371 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
3372 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
3373 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
3374 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
3377 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
3379 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
3381 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
3382 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
3384 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
3385 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
3386 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
3388 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
3389 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
3390 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
3391 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
3392 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
3394 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
3395 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
3396 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
3397 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
3398 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
3399 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
3400 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
3402 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
3403 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
3404 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
3405 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
3406 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
3407 the test of how many are available.
3409 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
3410 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
3411 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
3412 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
3413 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
3414 new message is started.
3416 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
3417 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
3419 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
3420 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
3422 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
3423 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
3424 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
3427 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
3428 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
3429 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
3430 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
3431 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
3432 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
3433 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
3435 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
3436 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
3437 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
3438 interpreted as octal.
3440 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
3443 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
3444 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
3445 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
3446 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
3447 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
3448 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
3450 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
3451 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
3452 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
3453 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
3455 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
3456 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3457 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3458 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3460 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3461 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3464 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3465 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3467 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3469 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3470 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3471 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3472 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3474 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3475 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3476 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3477 supplied", which is not helpful.
3479 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3480 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3481 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3483 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3484 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3485 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3486 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3487 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3488 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3489 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3490 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3492 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3493 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3494 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3495 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3496 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3498 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3499 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3500 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3501 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3502 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3503 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3505 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3506 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3507 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3509 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
3511 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3512 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3513 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3516 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3518 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3519 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3520 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3521 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3522 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3523 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3524 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3525 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3527 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3528 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3529 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3530 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3531 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3533 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3536 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3537 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3538 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3539 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3540 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3541 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3542 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3543 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3544 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3550 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3551 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3552 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3554 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3557 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3558 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3559 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3561 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3562 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3563 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3564 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3565 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3566 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3568 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3569 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3570 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3571 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3572 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3573 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3574 the Exim test suite.
3576 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3577 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3578 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3579 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3581 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3582 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3583 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3584 specify it in this variable.
3586 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3587 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3588 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3589 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3591 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3592 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3593 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3594 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3596 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3597 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3598 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
3599 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
3600 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
3602 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
3604 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
3607 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3608 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3609 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3610 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3611 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3613 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3614 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3616 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3617 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3618 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3619 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3620 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3622 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3623 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3625 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3626 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3627 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3629 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3630 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3632 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3633 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3635 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3636 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3637 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3639 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3640 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3642 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3643 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3644 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3645 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3647 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3649 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3650 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3651 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3652 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3654 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3656 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3657 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3659 25. Added .include_if_exists.
3661 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3662 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3663 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
3664 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
3665 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
3666 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3668 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3670 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3671 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3674 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3676 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3677 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3679 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3680 550 Sender verify failed
3682 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3683 the final line of the response.
3685 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3686 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3687 all other user lookups.
3689 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3692 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3693 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3694 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3695 result into an int without checking.
3697 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3698 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3699 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3701 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3702 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3703 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3704 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3706 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3709 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3710 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3712 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3713 to the empty sender.
3715 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3716 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3717 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3718 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3719 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3720 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3721 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3724 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3725 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3726 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3727 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3730 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3731 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3733 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3736 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3737 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3739 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3741 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3742 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3745 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3746 as soon as it is encountered.
3748 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3750 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3753 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3754 recognizes a tab character.
3756 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3757 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3758 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3759 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3761 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3763 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3766 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3768 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3770 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3771 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3774 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3775 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3776 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3777 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3778 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3780 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3781 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3783 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3784 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3785 list (.included file names were always shown).
3787 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3788 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3789 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3792 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3793 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3795 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3797 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3799 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3801 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3802 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3803 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3804 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3805 failures to open the logs.
3807 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3808 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3809 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3810 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3811 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3812 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3813 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3819 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3820 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3821 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3824 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3825 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3826 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3828 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3829 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3830 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3832 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3833 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3834 causing some misleading effects.
3836 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3837 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3838 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3840 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3841 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3842 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3843 queue-runner function directly.
3849 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3852 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3853 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3854 was always written to the default place.
3856 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3857 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3858 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3860 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3862 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3864 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3865 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3866 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3868 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3869 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3872 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3873 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3874 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3876 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3877 command line option is disabled.
3879 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3880 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3882 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3884 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3886 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3887 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3889 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3891 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3892 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3893 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3894 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3895 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3896 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3898 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3899 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3902 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3903 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3905 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3906 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3908 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3909 received was valid base64.
3911 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3912 name of the variable that was being set.
3914 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3916 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3917 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3918 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3919 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3920 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3921 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3923 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3925 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3926 nor realm was specified.
3928 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3929 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3930 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3931 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3933 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3934 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3935 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3937 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3938 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3939 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3941 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3942 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3943 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3944 some systems use these upper case variants.
3946 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3947 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3948 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3949 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3951 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3953 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3954 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3956 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3957 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3960 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3962 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3963 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3964 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3965 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3967 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3970 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3971 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3972 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3974 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3975 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3977 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3978 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3979 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3980 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3982 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3983 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3984 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3986 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3988 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3989 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3990 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3991 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3994 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3995 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3996 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3998 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4000 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4001 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4003 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4004 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4006 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4007 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4008 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4009 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4010 when emails are that large.
4017 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4018 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4020 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4021 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4022 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4024 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4025 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4026 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4028 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4029 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4030 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4031 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4032 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4034 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4035 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4036 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4037 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4038 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4041 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4042 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4043 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4044 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4045 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4046 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4047 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4048 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4049 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4050 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4051 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4052 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4053 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4054 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4056 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4057 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4060 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4061 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4062 error should be diagnosed.
4064 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4065 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4066 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4067 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4068 appeared instead of "NULL".
4070 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4071 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4072 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4073 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4074 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4075 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4078 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4079 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4080 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4086 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4087 or receiver verification errors.
4089 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4092 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4093 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4094 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4095 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4097 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4098 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4099 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4100 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4101 shouldn't happen again.
4103 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4104 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4105 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4107 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4108 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4110 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4112 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4113 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4115 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4116 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4119 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4120 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4121 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4123 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4124 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4125 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4126 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4128 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4129 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4130 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4131 to define what should happen).
4133 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4134 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4135 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4137 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4139 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4141 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4142 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4144 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4145 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4146 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4147 structure in all cases.
4149 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4150 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4151 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4152 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4154 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4155 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4158 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4159 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4161 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4162 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4164 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4165 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4166 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4168 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4169 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4170 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4172 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4173 the book and for uniformity.
4175 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4177 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4178 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4179 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4180 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4181 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4182 non-existent command as the problem.
4184 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4185 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4186 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4188 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4190 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4191 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4192 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4194 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4195 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4196 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4197 timestamps using strftime().
4199 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4200 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4202 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4203 transport-time rewrites.
4205 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4206 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4207 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4208 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4210 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4211 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4213 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4214 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4215 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4216 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4219 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4220 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4221 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4222 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4223 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4224 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4225 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4227 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4228 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4229 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4230 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4231 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4233 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4234 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4235 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4236 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4237 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4238 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4239 remaining text gets split now.
4241 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4242 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4243 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4244 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4246 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4247 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4248 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4249 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4252 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4253 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4254 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4255 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4256 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4257 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4258 passed through if needed.
4260 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4261 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4262 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4263 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4264 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4265 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4267 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4268 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4269 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4270 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4271 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4273 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4274 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4275 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4276 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4277 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4279 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
4280 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
4283 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
4284 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
4285 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
4286 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
4287 mayhem of various kinds.
4289 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
4290 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4291 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
4292 the right test for positive values.
4294 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
4295 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
4296 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
4297 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
4298 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
4299 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
4300 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
4301 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
4302 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
4303 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
4306 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
4309 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
4310 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
4313 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
4314 the existing equality matching.
4316 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
4317 dealing with inode numbers.
4319 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
4320 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
4321 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
4323 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
4324 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
4325 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
4326 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
4329 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
4330 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
4331 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
4332 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
4333 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
4334 relay addresses has also been removed.
4336 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
4338 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
4339 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
4340 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
4342 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
4343 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
4344 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
4345 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
4346 processing applies to CR:
4348 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
4349 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
4351 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
4352 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
4353 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
4354 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
4356 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
4357 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
4358 This is a VOB (very old bug).
4360 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
4361 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
4362 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
4363 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
4364 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
4365 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
4368 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
4371 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
4372 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
4373 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
4374 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
4377 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4379 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
4381 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
4383 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
4384 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
4385 not considered personal.
4387 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
4389 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
4391 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
4393 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
4394 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
4395 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
4396 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
4397 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
4398 header lines, and spool format errors.
4400 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
4401 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
4402 for more flexibility.
4404 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
4405 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
4406 consulting and updating the callout cache.
4408 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
4411 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
4412 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
4413 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
4414 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
4415 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
4416 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
4417 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
4418 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
4419 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
4421 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
4422 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
4423 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
4424 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
4425 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
4426 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
4427 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
4429 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
4430 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
4431 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
4433 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
4434 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
4435 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
4436 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
4437 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
4438 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
4439 instead of killing the process with assert().
4441 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
4442 than Unicode encoding.
4444 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
4445 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
4446 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
4447 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
4449 77. Added process_log_path.
4451 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
4452 check_log_inodes was ignored.
4454 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
4455 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
4457 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
4458 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
4459 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
4461 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
4462 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
4463 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
4464 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
4465 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
4468 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
4469 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
4472 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
4473 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
4474 they will be used during message reception.
4480 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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