Tidy up "personal" testing in line with RFCs 2369, 2929, 3834.
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3 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5
6 Exim version 4.54
7 -----------------
8
9 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
10 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
11 It now does.
12
13 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
14 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
15
16 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
17
18 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
19 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
20 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
21 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
22 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
23
24
25 Exim version 4.53
26 -----------------
27
28 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
29 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
30
31 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
32
33 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
34
35 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
36 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
37 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
38
39 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
40 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
41 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
42
43 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
44 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
45 operating systems.
46
47 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
48 ${stat: expansion item.
49
50 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
51 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
52
53 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
54 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
55 file for comments.
56
57 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
58
59 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
60 setting.
61
62 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
63 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
64
65 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
66
67 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
68 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
69 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
70 the end of the subprocess.
71
72 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
73 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
74 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
75 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
76 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
77
78 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
79
80 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
81
82 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
83 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
84
85 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
86
87 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
88
89 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
90 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
91 HP-UX compiler.
92
93 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
94
95 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
96 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
97 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
98
99 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
100 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
101
102 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
103 host errors such as "Connection refused".
104
105 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
106 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
107
108 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
109 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
110
111 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
112 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
113 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
114 contributed by a Radius user.
115
116 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
117 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
118
119 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
120 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
121
122 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
123 available.
124
125 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
126 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
127 received.
128
129 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
130 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
131 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
132 header lines when this was not necessary.
133
134 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
135
136 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
137 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
138 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
139 exists".
140
141 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
142 -bV or -d is used.
143
144 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
145 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
146 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
147 return code was incorrect.
148
149 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
150
151 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
152
153 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
154
155 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
156
157 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
158 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
159 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
160 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
161 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
162 settings.
163
164 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
165
166 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
167 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
168 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
169 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
170 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
171 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
172 which is clearly wrong.
173
174 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
175
176 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
177 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
178 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
179 subsequently added.
180
181 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
182 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
183
184 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
185
186 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
187 the "build-* directories that it finds.
188
189 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
190 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
191
192 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
193 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
194
195 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
196 recipients, not senders.
197
198 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
199 the ratelimit ACL was added.
200
201 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
202
203 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
204
205 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
206 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
207 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
208 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
209
210 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
211
212 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
213 clock is set back in time.
214
215 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
216 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
217
218 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
219 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
220
221 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
222 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
223 (see PH/47 above).
224
225 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
226 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
227 header rewrites.
228
229 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
230 type ("H").
231
232 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
233
234 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
235 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
236 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
237
238 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
239 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
240 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
241 helo verification defer as a failure.
242
243 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
244 actual error message.
245
246
247 Exim version 4.52
248 -----------------
249
250 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
251
252 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
253 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
254 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
255 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
256
257 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
258
259 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
260 can still be requested.
261
262 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
263 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
264 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
265 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
266
267 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
268 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
269 circumstances, but probably never did.
270
271 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
272 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
273 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
274 in the header line.
275
276 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
277
278 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
279 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
280
281 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
282
283 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
284
285 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
286 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
287 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
288 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
289 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
290 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
291
292 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
293 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
294 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
295 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
296 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
297 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
298
299 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
300 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
301
302 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
303 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
304
305 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
306 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
307
308 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
309
310 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
311
312 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
313
314 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
315
316 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
317
318 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
319
320 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
321
322 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
323 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
324 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
325
326 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
327 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
328 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
329 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
330
331 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
332 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
333 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
334
335 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
336 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
337 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
338 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
339
340 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
341 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
342 to be made).
343
344 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
345 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
346 should work with maildirs and everything.
347
348 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
349 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
350
351 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
352 <jgh@wizmail.org>
353
354 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
355 function for BDB 4.3.
356
357 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
358
359 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
360 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
361 involved.
362
363 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
364 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
365 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
366 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
367 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
368 formatting function string_vformat().
369
370 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
371 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
372 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
373 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
374 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
375 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
376 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
377 falls back to the previous guessing code."
378
379 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
380 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
381 details.
382
383 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
384 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
385
386 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
387 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
388 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
389 test. It is now used for both.
390
391 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
392 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
393 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
394 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
395 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
396 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
397
398 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
399 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
400 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
401 string_vformat().
402
403 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
404 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
405 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
406
407 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
408 experimental DomainKeys support:
409
410 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
411 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
412 the control was given.
413
414 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
415
416 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
417
418 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
419
420 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
421 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
422 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
423 db.h files).
424
425 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
426 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
427 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
428 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
429 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
430 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
431 course.
432
433 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
434 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
435 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
436 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
437 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
438 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
439
440 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
441 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
442 do -d+all out of habit.
443
444 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
445 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
446 x86_64 Fedora Core.
447
448 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
449 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
450 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
451 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
452 record types that Exim uses.
453
454 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
455 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
456 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
457 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
458 non-existent file that was broken.
459
460 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
461 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
462
463 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
464 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
465 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
466
467 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
468
469 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
470 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
471 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
472 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
473 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
474 same time.
475
476 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
477 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
478 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
479 at a slight CPU cost.
480
481 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
482 as requested by Marc Sherman.
483
484 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
485 by Marc Sherman.
486
487 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
488
489 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
490 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
491
492
493 Exim version 4.51
494 -----------------
495
496 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
497 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
498
499 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
500
501 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
502
503 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
504 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
505
506 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
507 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
508 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
509 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
510 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
511 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
512 file.
513
514 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
515 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
516 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
517 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
518 these two options.
519
520 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
521 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
522 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
523 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
524 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
525 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
526 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
527 address.
528
529 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
530 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
531
532 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
533 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
534 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
535 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
536 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
537 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
538
539 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
540 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
541 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
542 SMTP commands that take arguments.
543
544 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
545 Finch).
546
547 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
548 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
549
550 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
551 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
552 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
553 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
554 message.
555
556 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
557
558 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
559 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
560
561 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
562 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
563 to what was transported.)
564
565 TF/01 Added $received_time.
566
567 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
568 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
569 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
570 spamd_address settings.
571
572 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
573 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
574 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
575 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
576 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
577
578 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
579
580 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
581 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
582 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
583 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
584 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
585
586 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
587 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
588
589 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
590 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
591 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
592 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
593 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
594 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
595 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
596 for failure.
597
598 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
599 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
600 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
601 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
602 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
603 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
604 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
605 "input=".
606
607 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
608
609 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
610 driver and ACL definitions.
611
612 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
613 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
614
615 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
616 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
617 understands it better than I do:
618
619 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
620 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
621
622 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
623 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
624 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
625 => three warnings about OTP not working
626 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
627
628 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
629 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
630 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
631 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
632 for each call.)
633 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
634 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
635
636 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
637 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
638 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
639
640 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
641 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
642 specified.
643
644 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
645 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
646 "Linux".
647
648 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
649 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
650 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
651
652 warn !verify = sender
653 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
654
655 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
656 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
657
658 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
659
660 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
661 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
662
663 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
664 nomenclature these days.)
665
666 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
667 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
668
669 PH/30 In these circumstances:
670 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
671 . First host does not offer TLS;
672 . First host accepts first address;
673 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
674 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
675 . Second host accepts second address.
676 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
677 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
678 address.
679
680 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
681 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
682 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
683 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
684 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
685
686 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
687 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
688
689 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
690 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
691
692 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
693 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
694 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
695
696 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
697 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
698 overlooked.
699
700 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
701
702 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
703 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
704 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
705 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
706 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
707 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
708 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
709
710 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
711 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
712 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
713 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
714 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
715
716 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
717 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
718 routed further.
719
720 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
721 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
722 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
723 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
724 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
725 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
726
727 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
728
729 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
730 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
731 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
732 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
733 printable escape sequences.
734
735 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
736 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
737 body only.
738
739 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
740 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
741 are as follows:
742
743 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
744 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
745 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
746 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
747 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
748
749 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
750 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
751 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
752
753 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
754
755 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
756 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
757 play with."
758
759 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
760 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
761 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
762 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
763 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
764 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
765 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
766 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
767 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
768 the log output.
769
770 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
771 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
772 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
773 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
774 "make".
775
776
777 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
778 ----------------------------------------
779
780 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
781 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
782 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
783 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
784 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
785 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
786 from 4.43.
787
788 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
789 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
790 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
791 historical information.
792
793
794 Exim version 4.50
795 -----------------
796
797 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
798
799 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
800 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
801
802 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
803 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
804 place.
805
806 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
807 filter fails to execute.
808
809 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
810 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
811 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
812 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
813 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
814
815 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
816
817 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
818 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
819 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
820 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
821
822 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
823 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
824 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
825 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
826 control that does not make sense is encountered.
827
828 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
829
830 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
831
832 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
833 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
834 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
835 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
836
837 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
838 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
839 sender verification.
840
841 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
842 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
843
844 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
845
846 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
847 connection timeout.
848
849 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
850 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
851
852 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
853 the spool by the -Mrm option.
854
855 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
856 information about exactly what failed.
857
858 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
859
860 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
861 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
862 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
863
864 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
865 It is now set to "smtps".
866
867 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
868 ignore_target_hosts.
869
870 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
871 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
872 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
873 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
874 "[x.x.x.x]".
875
876 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
877 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
878 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
879
880 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
881 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
882 wake it up if nothing else does.
883
884 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
885 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
886 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
887 end up negative.
888
889 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
890 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
891
892 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
893
894 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
895 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
896 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
897 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
898 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
899 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
900 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
901 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
902
903 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
904 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
905 than one IP address.
906
907 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
908 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
909 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
910 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
911
912 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
913 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
914 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
915 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
916 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
917 1024 to 2048 bytes.
918
919 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
920 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
921 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
922 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
923
924 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
925 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
926 respected.
927
928 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
929 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
930 $sender_host_address.
931
932 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
933 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
934 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
935 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
936 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
937 very small.
938
939 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
940
941 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
942 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
943
944 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
945 just the host names, not the priorities.
946
947 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
948 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
949 controlled by a keyword.
950
951 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
952 multiple records are returned.
953
954 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
955 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
956 domain.
957
958 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
959
960 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
961 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
962
963 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
964 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
965 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
966
967 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
968
969 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
970
971 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
972
973 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
974 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
975 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
976 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
977 because the tests only now provoked it.
978
979 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
980 (this can affect the format of dates).
981
982 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
983 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
984 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
985 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
986
987 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
988
989 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
990 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
991 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
992 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
993
994 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
995 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
996 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
997
998 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
999 autoreply.
1000
1001 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1002 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1003 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1004 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1005 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1006 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1007 is going on).
1008
1009 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
1010 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
1011 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
1012 the line.
1013
1014 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
1015 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
1016 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
1017
1018 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
1019 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
1020 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
1021 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
1022 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
1023 so I produce this patch..."
1024
1025 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
1026 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
1027 is not defined.
1028
1029 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1030 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1031 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1032 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1033 CAN-2005-0021
1034
1035 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
1036
1037 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
1038 long debug lines gets shown.
1039
1040 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
1041 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
1042
1043 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
1044
1045 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
1046 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
1047 of $primary_hostname.
1048
1049 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1050 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1051 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1052 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1053 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1054 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1055 by change 4.50/55 above.
1056
1057 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1058 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1059 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1060 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1061 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1062 running as the user.
1063 CAN-2005-0021
1064
1065 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1066 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1067 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1068 CAN-2005-0022
1069
1070 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
1071 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
1072
1073 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1074 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1075 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1076 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1077 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1078
1079 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
1080 This has been fixed.
1081
1082 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1083 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1084 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1085 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1086 the caching.)
1087
1088 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
1089
1090 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
1091 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
1092 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
1093 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
1094
1095 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
1096 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
1097
1098 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
1099 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
1100 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
1101
1102 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
1103 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
1104 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
1105 message there.
1106
1107 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
1108 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
1109 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
1110
1111 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
1112 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1113 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1114 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1115
1116 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1117 during host lookups.
1118
1119 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1120 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1121
1122 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1123
1124 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1125 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1126 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1127 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1128 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1129 background.
1130
1131 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1132 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1133
1134 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1135 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1136 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1137
1138 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1139
1140 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1141 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1142 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1143 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1144 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1145 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1146 process earlier.
1147
1148 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1149 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1150 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1151 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1152 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1153
1154 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1155 tables).
1156
1157 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1158
1159 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1160 "vacation" handling.
1161
1162 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1163 OS variants using glibc.
1164
1165 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1166
1167
1168 ----------------------------------------------------
1169 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1170 ----------------------------------------------------
1171
1172
1173 Exim version 4.44
1174 -----------------
1175
1176 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1177 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1178 transport
1179
1180 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1181 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1182 place.
1183
1184 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1185 filter fails to execute.
1186
1187 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1188 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1189 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1190 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1191 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1192
1193 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1194 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1195 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1196 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1197
1198 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1199 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1200 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1201 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1202 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1203
1204 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1205
1206 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1207 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1208 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1209 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1210
1211 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1212 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1213 sender verification.
1214
1215 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1216 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1217
1218 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1219 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1220
1221 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1222 ignore_target_hosts.
1223
1224 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1225 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1226 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1227 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1228 "[x.x.x.x]".
1229
1230 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1231 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1232 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1233
1234 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1235 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1236 wake it up if nothing else does.
1237
1238 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1239 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1240 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1241 end up negative.
1242
1243 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1244 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1245
1246 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
1247
1248 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1249 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1250 empty pattern.
1251
1252 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1253 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1254 one IP address.
1255
1256 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1257 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1258 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1259 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1260 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1261 1024 to 2048 bytes.
1262
1263 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1264 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1265 respected.
1266
1267 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1268 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1269 $sender_host_address.
1270
1271 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1272
1273 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1274 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1275 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1276
1277 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
1278 As per change 25.
1279
1280 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1281 (this can affect the format of dates).
1282
1283 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1284 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1285 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1286 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1287
1288 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1289 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1290 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1291
1292 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1293 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1294 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1295 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1296
1297 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1298 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1299 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1300
1301 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1302 autoreply.
1303
1304 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1305 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1306 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1307 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1308 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1309 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1310 is going on).
1311
1312 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1313 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1314 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1315 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
1316 CAN-2005-0021
1317
1318 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1319 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1320 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1321 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1322 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1323 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1324 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1325
1326 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1327 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1328 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1329 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1330 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1331 running as the user.
1332 CAN-2005-0021
1333
1334 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1335 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1336 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
1337 CAN-2005-0022
1338
1339 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1340 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1341 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1342 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1343 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1344
1345 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1346 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1347 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1348 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1349 the caching.)
1350
1351 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1352 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1353 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1354 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1355 because the tests only now provoked it.
1356
1357
1358 Exim version 4.43
1359 -----------------
1360
1361 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1362 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1363 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1364 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1365 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1366 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1367 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1368
1369 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1370 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1371 the delivery.
1372
1373 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1374
1375 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1376
1377 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1378 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1379 to local_scan().
1380
1381 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1382 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1383 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1384 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1385 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1386
1387 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1388 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1389
1390 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1391
1392 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1393
1394 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1395 header_sender only.
1396
1397 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1398 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1399
1400 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1401 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1402 affecting debugging statements).
1403
1404 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1405
1406 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1407 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1408 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1409 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1410 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1411 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1412 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1413 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1414 after the received time, and all would be well.
1415
1416 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1417 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1418 condition in an expansion string.
1419
1420 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1421
1422 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1423 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1424 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1425 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1426 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1427 job under whatever limits there are.
1428
1429 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1430
1431 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1432 space).
1433
1434 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1435 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1436 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1437 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1438 return path is set.
1439
1440 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1441 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1442 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1443 binary data in such strings.
1444
1445 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1446
1447 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1448 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1449 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1450 failure, which is pointless.
1451
1452 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1453
1454 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1455
1456 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1457 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1458 Sender: header lines.
1459
1460 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1461 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1462 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1463
1464 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1465 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1466 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1467 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1468 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1469 happens.
1470
1471 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1472 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1473 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1474 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1475 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1476
1477 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1478 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1479 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1480 1024.
1481
1482 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1483 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1484
1485 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1486 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1487
1488 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1489
1490 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1491
1492 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1493
1494 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1495 syntax error.
1496
1497 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1498
1499 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1500
1501 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1502 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1503 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1504 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1505
1506 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1507 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1508
1509
1510 Exim version 4.42
1511 -----------------
1512
1513 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1514 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1515 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1516 it was not quoted.
1517 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1518 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1519 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1520 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1521 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1522 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1523
1524 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1525 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1526 verification failure".
1527
1528 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1529 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1530 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1531 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1532
1533 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1534 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1535 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1536 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1537 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1538 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1539 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1540 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1541 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1542 treated as a timeout.
1543
1544 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1545 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1546 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1547 not set for Exim filters).
1548
1549 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1550 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1551 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1552
1553 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1554
1555 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1556 try to make them clearer.
1557
1558 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1559 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1560
1561 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1562
1563 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1564
1565 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1566 only the Cygwin environment.
1567
1568 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1569 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1570 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1571 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1572 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1573
1574 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1575 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1576 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1577 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1578 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1579 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1580 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1581
1582 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1583 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1584
1585 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1586
1587 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1588 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1589 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1590
1591 To: susanne@some.where
1592
1593 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1594 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1595 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1596 of addresses in From: header lines).
1597
1598 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1599 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1600 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1601
1602 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1603 treated as non-personal.
1604
1605 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1606 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1607
1608 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1609
1610 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1611
1612 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1613 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1614 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1615
1616 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1617 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1618
1619 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1620 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1621 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1622 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1623 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1624 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1625
1626 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1627 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1628 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1629 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1630 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1631 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1632 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1633 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1634
1635 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1636
1637 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1638 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1639
1640 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1641 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1642 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1643
1644 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1645 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1646
1647 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1648 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1649 rather than long int.
1650
1651 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1652
1653 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1654
1655
1656 Exim version 4.41
1657 -----------------
1658
1659 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1660 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1661 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1662 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1663 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1664 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1665
1666
1667 Exim version 4.40
1668 -----------------
1669
1670 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1671 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1672
1673 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1674 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1675 socklen_t is defined.
1676
1677 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1678 always exist.
1679
1680 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1681 configured.
1682
1683 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1684 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1685 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1686 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1687 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1688
1689 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1690 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1691 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1692 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1693
1694 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1695 of flapping under certain conditions.
1696
1697 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1698 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1699 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1700
1701 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1702
1703 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1704
1705 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1706 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1707 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1708 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1709
1710 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1711 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1712 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1713 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1714 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1715 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1716 preserved with the message after it was received.
1717
1718 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1719 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1720 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1721 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1722 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1723 test suite worked just fine.
1724
1725 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1726 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1727 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1728
1729 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1730 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1731 string.
1732
1733 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1734 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1735 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1736 does not fully solve it.
1737
1738 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1739 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1740 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1741 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1742 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1743
1744 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1745 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1746 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1747
1748 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1749 string, for example:
1750
1751 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1752
1753 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1754 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1755 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1756 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1757 the routers could not see them.
1758
1759 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1760 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1761
1762 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1763 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1764 output).
1765
1766 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1767 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1768 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1769 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1770 that needed quoting.
1771
1772 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1773 was not being matched caselessly.
1774
1775 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1776 backslashes.
1777
1778 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1779 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1780 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1781 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1782 when use_sender is false.
1783
1784 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1785
1786 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1787
1788 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1789
1790 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1791 the configuration file.
1792
1793 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1794 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1795
1796 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1797
1798 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1799 bytes in the message body.
1800
1801 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1802 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1803 delivery.
1804
1805 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1806
1807 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1808
1809 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1810 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1811 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1812 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1813 another IP address.
1814
1815
1816 Exim version 4.34
1817 -----------------
1818
1819 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1820 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1821
1822 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1823 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1824 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1825 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1826 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1827
1828 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1829 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1830
1831 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1832 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1833 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1834
1835 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1836 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1837 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1838
1839 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1840 for routers.
1841
1842 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1843 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1844 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1845 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1846 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1847 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1848 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1849
1850
1851 Exim version 4.33
1852 -----------------
1853
1854 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1855 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1856 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1857 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1858 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1859 default (and expected) setting.
1860
1861 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1862 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1863 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1864 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1865
1866 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1867 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1868
1869 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1870 in domain lists.
1871
1872 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1873 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1874 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1875 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1876 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1877 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1878
1879 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1880 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1881 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1882
1883 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1884 part (NOT match_host).
1885
1886 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1887
1888 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1889 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1890 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1891 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1892 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1893 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1894 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1895 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1896 the same named file.
1897
1898 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1899 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1900 when Exim is built.
1901
1902 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1903 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1904 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1905 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1906 a host name.
1907
1908 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1909 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1910 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1911
1912 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1913
1914 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1915
1916 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1917
1918 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1919 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1920
1921 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1922 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1923 before starting the TLS session.
1924
1925 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1926
1927 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1928 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1929
1930 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1931 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1932 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1933 colon in the middle).
1934
1935
1936 Exim version 4.32
1937 -----------------
1938
1939 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1940 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1941 multiple configurations are in use.
1942
1943 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1944 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1945 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1946 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1947 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1948 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1949
1950 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1951 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1952
1953 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1954 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1955 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1956
1957 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1958 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1959 occurs.
1960
1961 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1962 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1963
1964 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1965
1966 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1967 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1968
1969 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1970
1971 -prval:sval
1972
1973 is equivalent to
1974
1975 -oMr rval -oMs sval
1976
1977 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1978 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1979 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1980 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1981 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1982
1983 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1984 Exim's behaviour:
1985
1986 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1987 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1988 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1989 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1990 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1991 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1992
1993 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1994 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1995 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1996 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1997 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1998 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1999 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
2000 string.
2001
2002 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
2003 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
2004 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
2005 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
2006 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
2007
2008 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
2009
2010 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
2011 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
2012 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
2013
2014 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
2015
2016 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
2017 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
2018 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
2019 information.
2020
2021 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
2022 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
2023
2024 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
2025 Three changes have been made:
2026
2027 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
2028 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
2029 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
2030 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
2031 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
2032
2033 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
2034 been restored.
2035
2036 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
2037 the modified behaviour.
2038
2039
2040 Exim version 4.31
2041 -----------------
2042
2043 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
2044 Larry Rosenman.
2045
2046 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
2047 indeed breaks things for older releases.
2048
2049 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
2050 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
2051 try to track down a specific problem.
2052
2053 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
2054 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
2055 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
2056
2057 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
2058 warning.
2059
2060 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
2061 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
2062 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
2063 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
2064 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
2065 some earlier ones do not.
2066
2067 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
2068
2069 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
2070 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
2071 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2072 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
2073 address literals are enabled, of course).
2074
2075 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
2076
2077 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
2078 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
2079 by a command such as
2080
2081 exim -f "" ...
2082
2083 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
2084
2085 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
2086
2087 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
2088 remained set. It is now erased.
2089
2090 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
2091 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
2092
2093 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
2094 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
2095 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
2096 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
2097 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
2098 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
2099 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
2100 appropriate error code.
2101
2102 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
2103 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
2104 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
2105 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
2106 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
2107 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
2108
2109 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
2110 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
2111 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2112
2113 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2114 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2115 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2116 terminate the header.
2117
2118 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2119 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2120 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2121
2122 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2123 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2124 (4.30/29). In particular:
2125
2126 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2127 imposed.
2128
2129 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2130 to write a maildirsize file.
2131
2132 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2133 the transport, the new value overrides.
2134
2135 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2136 count.
2137
2138 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2139 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2140 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2141 space or a tab.
2142
2143 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2144 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2145 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2146 the fallback hosts.
2147
2148 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2149 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2150 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2151
2152 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2153 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2154 using a union.
2155
2156 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2157 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2158 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2159
2160 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2161
2162 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2163
2164 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2165
2166 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2167 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2168 become corrupted.
2169
2170 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2171 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2172 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2173 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2174 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2175 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2176 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2177 too great.
2178
2179 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2180 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2181 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2182 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2183 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2184 incorrectly.
2185
2186 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2187 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2188 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2189 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2190 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2191 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2192 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2193 cached value only when the same options are set.
2194
2195 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2196
2197 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2198 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2199 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2200 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2201 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2202
2203 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2204 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2205 it is clearly obsolete.
2206
2207 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2208 transport.
2209
2210 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2211 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2212 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2213 times.
2214
2215 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2216 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2217 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2218 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2219 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2220
2221 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2222 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2223 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2224 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2225
2226 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2227
2228 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2229
2230 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2231 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2232 2^31.
2233
2234 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2235 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2236 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2237 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2238 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2239 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2240 $localpart_data.
2241
2242 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2243 with the -f command-line option.
2244
2245 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2246 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2247 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2248 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2249 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2250 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2251
2252 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2253 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2254 line.
2255
2256 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2257 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2258 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2259 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2260 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2261 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2262 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2263 buffer is too small.
2264
2265 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2266 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2267
2268 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2269 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2270 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2271 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2272 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2273 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2274 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2275 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2276 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2277
2278 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2279 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2280 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2281
2282 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2283 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2284 ACL").
2285
2286 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2287 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2288 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2289 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2290 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2291
2292 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2293 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2294 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2295 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2296 is set.
2297
2298 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2299
2300 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2301
2302 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2303 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2304
2305 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2306 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2307 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2308
2309 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2310 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2311 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2312 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2313 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2314
2315 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2316 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2317 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2318 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2319 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2320 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2321 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2322
2323 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2324 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2325 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2326 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2327 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2328 the test of how many are available.
2329
2330 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2331 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2332 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2333 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2334 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2335 new message is started.
2336
2337 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2338 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2339
2340 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2341 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2342
2343 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2344 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2345 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2346 is no long logged.
2347
2348 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2349 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2350 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2351 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2352 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2353 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2354 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2355
2356 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2357 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2358 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2359 interpreted as octal.
2360
2361 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2362 setting.
2363
2364 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2365 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2366 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2367 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2368 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2369 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2370
2371 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2372 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2373 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2374 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2375
2376 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2377 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2378 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2379 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2380
2381 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2382 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2383 is a bug fix.
2384
2385 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2386 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2387
2388 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2389
2390 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2391 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2392 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2393 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2394
2395 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2396 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2397 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2398 supplied", which is not helpful.
2399
2400 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2401 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2402 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2403
2404 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2405 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2406 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2407 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2408 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2409 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2410 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2411 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2412
2413 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2414 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2415 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2416 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2417 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2418
2419 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2420 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2421 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2422 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2423 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2424 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2425
2426 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2427 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2428 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2429
2430 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
2431
2432 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2433 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2434 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2435 variables.
2436
2437 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2438
2439 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2440 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2441 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2442 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2443 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2444 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2445 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2446 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2447
2448 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2449 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2450 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2451 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2452 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2453
2454 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2455 Haardt.
2456
2457 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2458 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2459 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2460 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2461 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2462 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2463 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2464 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2465 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2466
2467
2468 Exim version 4.30
2469 -----------------
2470
2471 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2472 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2473 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2474
2475 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2476 fixed.
2477
2478 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2479 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2480 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2481
2482 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2483 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2484 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2485 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2486 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2487 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2488
2489 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2490 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2491 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2492 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2493 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2494 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2495 the Exim test suite.
2496
2497 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2498 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2499 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2500 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2501
2502 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2503 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2504 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2505 specify it in this variable.
2506
2507 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2508 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2509 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2510 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2511
2512 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2513 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2514 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2515 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2516
2517 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2518 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2519 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2520 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2521 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2522
2523 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2524
2525 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2526 they are logged.
2527
2528 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2529 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2530 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2531 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2532 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2533
2534 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2535 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2536
2537 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2538 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2539 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2540 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2541 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2542
2543 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2544 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2545
2546 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2547 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2548 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2549
2550 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2551 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2552
2553 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2554 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2555
2556 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2557 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2558 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2559
2560 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2561 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2562
2563 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2564 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2565 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2566 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2567
2568 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2569
2570 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2571 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2572 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2573 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2574
2575 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2576
2577 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2578 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2579
2580 25. Added .include_if_exists.
2581
2582 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2583 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2584 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2585 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2586 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2587 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2588
2589 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2590
2591 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2592 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2593 this.
2594
2595 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2596
2597 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2598 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2599
2600 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2601 550 Sender verify failed
2602
2603 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2604 the final line of the response.
2605
2606 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2607 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2608 all other user lookups.
2609
2610 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2611 delivery time.
2612
2613 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2614 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2615 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2616 result into an int without checking.
2617
2618 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2619 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2620 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2621
2622 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2623 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2624 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2625 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2626
2627 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2628 correctly.
2629
2630 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2631 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2632
2633 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2634 to the empty sender.
2635
2636 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2637 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2638 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2639 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2640 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2641 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2642 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2643 panic log.
2644
2645 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2646 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2647 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2648 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2649 used.
2650
2651 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2652 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2653
2654 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2655 timestamps.
2656
2657 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2658 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2659
2660 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2661
2662 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2663 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2664 logs.
2665
2666 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2667 as soon as it is encountered.
2668
2669 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2670
2671 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2672 rewritten to "<>".
2673
2674 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2675 recognizes a tab character.
2676
2677 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2678 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2679 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2680 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2681
2682 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2683
2684 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2685 crash.
2686
2687 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2688
2689 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2690
2691 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2692 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2693 2822.
2694
2695 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2696 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2697 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2698 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2699 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2700
2701 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2702 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2703
2704 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2705 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2706 list (.included file names were always shown).
2707
2708 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2709 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2710 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2711 root at that time.
2712
2713 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2714 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2715
2716 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2717
2718 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2719
2720 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2721
2722 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2723 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2724 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2725 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2726 failures to open the logs.
2727
2728 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2729 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2730 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2731 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2732 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2733 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2734 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2735
2736
2737 Exim version 4.24
2738 -----------------
2739
2740 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2741 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2742 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2743 change 4.23/1.
2744
2745 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2746 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2747 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2748
2749 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2750 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2751 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2752
2753 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2754 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2755 causing some misleading effects.
2756
2757 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2758 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2759 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2760
2761 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2762 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2763 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2764 queue-runner function directly.
2765
2766
2767 Exim version 4.23
2768 -----------------
2769
2770 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2771 HEADERS_CHARSET.
2772
2773 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2774 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2775 was always written to the default place.
2776
2777 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2778 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2779 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2780
2781 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2782
2783 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2784
2785 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2786 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2787 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2788
2789 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2790 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2791 must start.
2792
2793 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2794 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2795 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2796
2797 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2798 command line option is disabled.
2799
2800 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2801 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2802
2803 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2804
2805 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2806
2807 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2808 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2809
2810 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2811
2812 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2813 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2814 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2815 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2816 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2817 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2818
2819 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2820 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2821 timeout.
2822
2823 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2824 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2825
2826 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2827 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2828
2829 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2830 received was valid base64.
2831
2832 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2833 name of the variable that was being set.
2834
2835 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2836
2837 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2838 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2839 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2840 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2841 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2842 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2843
2844 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2845
2846 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2847 nor realm was specified.
2848
2849 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2850 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2851 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2852 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2853
2854 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2855 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2856 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2857
2858 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2859 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2860 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2861
2862 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2863 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2864 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2865 some systems use these upper case variants.
2866
2867 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2868 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2869 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2870 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2871
2872 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2873
2874 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2875 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2876
2877 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2878 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2879 expansion variable.
2880
2881 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2882
2883 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2884 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2885 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2886 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2887
2888 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2889 using it.
2890
2891 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2892 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2893 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2894
2895 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2896 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2897
2898 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2899 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2900 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2901 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2902
2903 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2904 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2905 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2906
2907 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2908
2909 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2910 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2911 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2912 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2913 aborted.
2914
2915 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2916 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2917 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2918
2919 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2920
2921 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2922 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2923
2924 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2925 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2926
2927 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2928 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2929 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2930 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2931 when emails are that large.
2932
2933
2934
2935 Exim version 4.22
2936 -----------------
2937
2938 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2939 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2940
2941 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2942 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2943 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2944
2945 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2946 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2947 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2948
2949 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2950 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2951 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2952 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2953 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2954
2955 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2956 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2957 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2958 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2959 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2960 ever.
2961
2962 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2963 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2964 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2965 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2966 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2967 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2968 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2969 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2970 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2971 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2972 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2973 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2974 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2975 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2976
2977 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2978 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2979 parameterised it.
2980
2981 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2982 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2983 error should be diagnosed.
2984
2985 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2986 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2987 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2988 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2989 appeared instead of "NULL".
2990
2991 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2992 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2993 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2994 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2995 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2996 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2997 proceeds).
2998
2999 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
3000 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
3001 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
3002
3003
3004 Exim version 4.21
3005 -----------------
3006
3007 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
3008 or receiver verification errors.
3009
3010 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
3011 name.
3012
3013 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
3014 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
3015 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
3016 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
3017
3018 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
3019 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
3020 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
3021 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
3022 shouldn't happen again.
3023
3024 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
3025 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
3026 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
3027
3028 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
3029 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
3030
3031 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
3032
3033 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
3034 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
3035
3036 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
3037 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
3038 RFC.
3039
3040 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
3041 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
3042 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
3043
3044 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
3045 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
3046 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
3047 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
3048
3049 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
3050 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
3051 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
3052 to define what should happen).
3053
3054 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
3055 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
3056 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
3057
3058 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
3059
3060 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
3061
3062 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
3063 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
3064
3065 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
3066 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
3067 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
3068 structure in all cases.
3069
3070 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
3071 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
3072 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
3073 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
3074
3075 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
3076 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
3077 domain name.
3078
3079 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
3080 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
3081
3082 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
3083 MD5 (which is deprecated).
3084
3085 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
3086 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
3087 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
3088
3089 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
3090 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
3091 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
3092
3093 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
3094 the book and for uniformity.
3095
3096 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
3097
3098 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
3099 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
3100 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
3101 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
3102 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
3103 non-existent command as the problem.
3104
3105 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
3106 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
3107 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
3108
3109 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
3110
3111 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
3112 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3113 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3114
3115 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3116 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3117 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3118 timestamps using strftime().
3119
3120 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3121 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3122
3123 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3124 transport-time rewrites.
3125
3126 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3127 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3128 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3129 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3130
3131 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3132 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3133
3134 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3135 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3136 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3137 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3138 comma and a space.
3139
3140 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3141 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3142 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3143 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3144 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3145 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3146 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3147
3148 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3149 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3150 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3151 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3152 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3153
3154 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3155 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3156 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3157 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3158 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3159 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3160 remaining text gets split now.
3161
3162 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3163 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3164 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3165 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3166
3167 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3168 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3169 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3170 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3171 $return_path.
3172
3173 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3174 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3175 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3176 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3177 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3178 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3179 passed through if needed.
3180
3181 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3182 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3183 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3184 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3185 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3186 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3187
3188 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3189 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3190 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3191 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3192 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3193
3194 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3195 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3196 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3197 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3198 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3199
3200 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3201 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3202 noticed.
3203
3204 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3205 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3206 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3207 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3208 mayhem of various kinds.
3209
3210 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3211 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3212 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3213 the right test for positive values.
3214
3215 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3216 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3217 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3218 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3219 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3220 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3221 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3222 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3223 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3224 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3225 envelope.
3226
3227 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3228 module.
3229
3230 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3231 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3232 forbidding it.
3233
3234 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3235 the existing equality matching.
3236
3237 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3238 dealing with inode numbers.
3239
3240 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3241 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3242 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3243
3244 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3245 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3246 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3247 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3248 local_scan().
3249
3250 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3251 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3252 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3253 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3254 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3255 relay addresses has also been removed.
3256
3257 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3258
3259 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3260 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3261 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3262
3263 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3264 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3265 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3266 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3267 processing applies to CR:
3268
3269 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3270 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3271
3272 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3273 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3274 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3275 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3276
3277 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3278 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3279 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3280
3281 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3282 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3283 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3284 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3285 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3286 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3287 arisen.
3288
3289 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3290 program routers.
3291
3292 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3293 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3294 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3295 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3296 adds:
3297
3298 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3299
3300 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3301
3302 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3303
3304 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3305 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3306 not considered personal.
3307
3308 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3309
3310 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3311
3312 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3313
3314 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3315 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3316 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3317 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3318 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3319 header lines, and spool format errors.
3320
3321 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3322 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3323 for more flexibility.
3324
3325 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3326 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3327 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3328
3329 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3330 Sabourenkov.
3331
3332 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3333 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3334 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3335 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3336 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3337 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3338 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3339 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3340 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3341
3342 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3343 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3344 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3345 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3346 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3347 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3348 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3349
3350 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3351 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3352 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3353
3354 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3355 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3356 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3357 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3358 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3359 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3360 instead of killing the process with assert().
3361
3362 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3363 than Unicode encoding.
3364
3365 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3366 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3367 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3368 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3369
3370 77. Added process_log_path.
3371
3372 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3373 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3374
3375 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3376 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3377
3378 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3379 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3380 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3381
3382 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3383 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3384 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3385 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3386 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3387 were applied:
3388
3389 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3390 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3391 as invalid.
3392
3393 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3394 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3395 they will be used during message reception.
3396
3397
3398 Exim version 4.20
3399 -----------------
3400
3401 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
3402
3403 ****