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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5
6
7Exim version 4.51
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9
10TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
11 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
12
13TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
14
15TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
16
17PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
18 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
19
20PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
21 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
22 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
23 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
24 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
25 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
26 file.
27
28PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
29 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
30 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
31 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
32 these two options.
33
34PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
35 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
36 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
37 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
38 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
39 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
40 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
41 address.
42
43PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
44 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
45
46PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
47 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
48 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
49 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
50 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
51 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
52
53PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
54 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
55 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
56 SMTP commands that take arguments.
57
58PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
59 Finch).
60
61PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
62 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
63
64PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
65 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
66 whatever). Otherwise not only does the password appear in the log, it may
67 also be put in a bounce message.
68
69PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
70
71PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
72 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
73
74PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
75 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
76 to what was transported.)
77
78TF/01 Added $received_time.
79
80PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
81 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
82 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
83 spamd_address settings.
84
85PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
86 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
87 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
88 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
89 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
90
91PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
92
93PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
94 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
95 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
96 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
97 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
98
99PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
100 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
101
102PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
103 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
104 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
105 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
106 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
107 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
108 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
109 for failure.
110
111PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
112 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
113 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
114 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
115 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
116 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
117 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
118 "input=".
119
120PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
121
122PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
123 driver and ACL definitions.
124
125PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
126 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
127
128PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
129 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
130 understands it better than I do:
131
132 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
133 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
134
135 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
136 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
137 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
138 => three warnings about OTP not working
139 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
140
141 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
142 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
143 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
144 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
145 for each call.)
146 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
147 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
148
149 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
150 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
151 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
152
153PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
154 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
155 specified.
156
157PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
158 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
159 "Linux".
160
161PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
162 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
163 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
164
165 warn !verify = sender
166 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
167
168 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
169 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
170
171PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
172
173 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
174 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
175
176 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
177 nomenclature these days.)
178
179PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
180 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
181
182PH/30 In these circumstances:
183 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
184 . First host does not offer TLS;
185 . First host accepts first address;
186 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
187 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
188 . Second host accepts second address.
189 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
190 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
191 address.
192
193PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
194 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
195 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
196 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
197 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
198
199PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
200 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
201
202PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
203 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
204
205PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
206 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
207 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
208
209PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
210 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
211 overlooked.
212
213PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
214
215PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
216 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
217 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
218 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
219 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
220 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
221 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
222
223 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
224 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
225 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
226 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
227 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
228
229 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
230 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
231 routed further.
232
233PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
234 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
235 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
236 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
237 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
238 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
239
240PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
241
242PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
243 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
244 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
245 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
246 printable escape sequences.
247
248PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
249 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
250 body only.
251
252PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
253 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
254 are as follows:
255
256 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
257 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
258 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
259 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
260 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
261
262 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
263 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
264 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
265
266PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
267
268
269A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
270----------------------------------------
271
272Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
273changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
274needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
275in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
276that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
277release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
278from 4.43.
279
280I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
2814.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
282those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
283historical information.
284
285
286Exim version 4.50
287-----------------
288
289 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
290
291 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
292 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
293
294 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
295 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
296 place.
297
298 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
299 filter fails to execute.
300
301 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
302 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
303 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
304 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
305 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
306
307 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
308
309 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
310 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
311 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
312 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
313
314 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
315 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
316 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
317 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
318 control that does not make sense is encountered.
319
320 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
321
32210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
323
32411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
325 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
326 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
327 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
328
32912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
330 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
331 sender verification.
332
33313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
334 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
335
33614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
337
33815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
339 connection timeout.
340
34116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
342 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
343
34417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
345 the spool by the -Mrm option.
346
34718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
348 information about exactly what failed.
349
35019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
351
35220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
353 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
354 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
355
35621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
357 It is now set to "smtps".
358
35922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
360 ignore_target_hosts.
361
36223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
363 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
364 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
365 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
366 "[x.x.x.x]".
367
36824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
369 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
370 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
371
37225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
373 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
374 wake it up if nothing else does.
375
37626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
377 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
378 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
379 end up negative.
380
38127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
382 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
383
38428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
385
38629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
387 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
388 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
389 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
390 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
391 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
392 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
393 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
394
39530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
396 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
397 than one IP address.
398
39931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
400 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
401 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
402 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
403
40432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
405 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
406 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
407 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
408 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
409 1024 to 2048 bytes.
410
41133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
412 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
413 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
414 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
415
41634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
417 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
418 respected.
419
42035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
421 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
422 $sender_host_address.
423
42436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
425 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
426 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
427 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
428 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
429 very small.
430
43137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
432
433 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
434 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
435
436 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
437 just the host names, not the priorities.
438
439 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
440 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
441 controlled by a keyword.
442
443 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
444 multiple records are returned.
445
44638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
447 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
448 domain.
449
45039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
451
45240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
453 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
454
45541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
456 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
457 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
458
45942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
460
46143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
462
46344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
464
46545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
466 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
467 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
468 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
469 because the tests only now provoked it.
470
47146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
472 (this can affect the format of dates).
473
47447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
475 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
476 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
477 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
478
47948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
480
48149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
482 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
483 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
484 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
485
48650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
487 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
488 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
489
49051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
491 autoreply.
492
49352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
494 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
495 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
496 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
497 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
498 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
499 is going on).
500
50153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
502 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
503 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
504 the line.
505
50654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
507 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
508 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
509
510 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
511 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
512 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
513 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
514 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
515 so I produce this patch..."
516
517 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
518 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
519 is not defined.
520
52155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
522 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
523 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
524 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
525 CAN-2005-0021
526
52756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
528
52957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
530 long debug lines gets shown.
531
53258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
533 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
534
53559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
536
537 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
538 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
539 of $primary_hostname.
540
54160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
542 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
543 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
544 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
545 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
546 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
547 by change 4.50/55 above.
548
549 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
550 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
551 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
552 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
553 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
554 running as the user.
555 CAN-2005-0021
556
55761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
558 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
559 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
560 CAN-2005-0022
561
56262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
563 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
564
56563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
566 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
567 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
568 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
569 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
570
57164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
572 This has been fixed.
573
57465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
575 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
576 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
577 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
578 the caching.)
579
58066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
581
58267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
583 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
584 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
585 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
586
58768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
588 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
589
59069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
591 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
592 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
593
59470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
595 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
596 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
597 message there.
598
59971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
600 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
601 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
602
60372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
604 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
605 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
606 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
607
60873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
609 during host lookups.
610
61174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
612 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
613
614 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
615
61675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
617 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
618 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
619 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
620 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
621 background.
622
62376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
624 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
625
62677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
627 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
628 for the non-SMTP ACL.
629
63078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
631
63279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
633 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
634 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
635 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
636 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
637 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
638 process earlier.
639
64080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
641 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
642 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
643 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
644 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
645
64681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
647 tables).
648
64982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
650
65183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
652 "vacation" handling.
653
65484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
655 OS variants using glibc.
656
65785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
658
659
660----------------------------------------------------
661See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
662----------------------------------------------------
663
664
665Exim version 4.44
666-----------------
667
668 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
669 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
670 transport
671
672 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
673 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
674 place.
675
676 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
677 filter fails to execute.
678
679 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
680 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
681 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
682 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
683 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
684
685 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
686 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
687 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
688 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
689
690 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
691 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
692 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
693 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
694 control that does not make sense is encountered.
695
696 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
697
698 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
699 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
700 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
701 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
702
703 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
704 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
705 sender verification.
706
70710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
708 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
709
71011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
711 the spool by the -Mrm option.
712
71312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
714 ignore_target_hosts.
715
71613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
717 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
718 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
719 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
720 "[x.x.x.x]".
721
72214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
723 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
724 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
725
72615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
727 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
728 wake it up if nothing else does.
729
73016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
731 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
732 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
733 end up negative.
734
73517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
736 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
737
73818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
739
74019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
741 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
742 empty pattern.
743
74420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
745 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
746 one IP address.
747
74821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
749 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
750 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
751 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
752 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
753 1024 to 2048 bytes.
754
75522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
756 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
757 respected.
758
75923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
760 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
761 $sender_host_address.
762
76324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
764
76525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
766 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
767 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
768
76926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
770 As per change 25.
771
77227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
773 (this can affect the format of dates).
774
77528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
776 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
777 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
778 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
779
78029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
781 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
782 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
783
78430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
785 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
786 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
787 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
788
78931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
790 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
791 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
792
79331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
794 autoreply.
795
79632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
797 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
798 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
799 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
800 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
801 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
802 is going on).
803
80433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
805 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
806 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
807 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
808 CAN-2005-0021
809
81034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
811 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
812 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
813 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
814 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
815 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
816 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
817
818 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
819 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
820 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
821 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
822 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
823 running as the user.
824 CAN-2005-0021
825
82635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
827 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
828 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
829 CAN-2005-0022
830
83136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
832 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
833 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
834 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
835 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
836
83737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
838 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
839 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
840 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
841 the caching.)
842
84338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
844 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
845 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
846 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
847 because the tests only now provoked it.
848
849
850Exim version 4.43
851-----------------
852
853 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
854 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
855 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
856 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
857 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
858 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
859 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
860
861 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
862 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
863 the delivery.
864
865 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
866
867 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
868
869 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
870 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
871 to local_scan().
872
873 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
874 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
875 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
876 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
877 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
878
879 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
880 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
881
882 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
883
884 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
885
88610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
887 header_sender only.
888
88911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
890 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
891
89212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
893 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
894 affecting debugging statements).
895
89613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
897
89814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
899 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
900 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
901 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
902 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
903 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
904 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
905 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
906 after the received time, and all would be well.
907
90815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
909 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
910 condition in an expansion string.
911
91216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
913
91417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
915 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
916 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
917 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
918 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
919 job under whatever limits there are.
920
92118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
922
92319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
924 space).
925
92620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
927 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
928 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
929 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
930 return path is set.
931
93221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
933 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
934 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
935 binary data in such strings.
936
93722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
938
93923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
940 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
941 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
942 failure, which is pointless.
943
94424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
945
94625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
947
94826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
949 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
950 Sender: header lines.
951
95227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
953 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
954 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
955
95628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
957 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
958 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
959 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
960 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
961 happens.
962
96329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
964 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
965 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
966 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
967 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
968
96930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
970 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
971 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
972 1024.
973
97431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
975 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
976
97732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
978 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
979
98033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
981
98232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
983
98433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
985
98634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
987 syntax error.
988
98935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
990
99136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
992
99337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
994 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
995 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
996 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
997
99838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
999 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1000
1001
1002Exim version 4.42
1003-----------------
1004
1005 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1006 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1007 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1008 it was not quoted.
1009 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1010 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1011 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1012 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1013 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1014 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1015
1016 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1017 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1018 verification failure".
1019
1020 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1021 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1022 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1023 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1024
1025 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1026 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1027 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1028 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1029 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1030 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1031 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1032 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1033 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1034 treated as a timeout.
1035
1036 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1037 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1038 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1039 not set for Exim filters).
1040
1041 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1042 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1043 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1044
1045 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1046
1047 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1048 try to make them clearer.
1049
1050 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1051 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1052
1053 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1054
1055 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1056
105710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1058 only the Cygwin environment.
1059
106011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1061 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1062 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1063 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1064 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1065
106612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1067 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1068 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1069 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1070 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1071 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1072 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1073
107413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1075 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1076
107714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1078
1079 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1080 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1081 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1082
1083 To: susanne@some.where
1084
1085 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
1086 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
1087 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
1088 of addresses in From: header lines).
1089
1090 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
1091 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
1092 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
1093
1094 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
1095 treated as non-personal.
1096
1097 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
1098 because it now seems ill-conceived.
1099
110015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
1101
110216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
1103
110417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
1105 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
1106 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
1107
110818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
1109 ACL and the local_scan() function.
1110
111119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
1112 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
1113 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
1114 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
1115 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
1116 (I found it when inspecting the code).
1117
111820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
1119 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
1120 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
1121 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
1122 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
1123 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
1124 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
1125 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
1126
1127 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
1128
112921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
1130 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
1131
113222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
1133 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
1134 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
1135
113623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
1137 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
1138
113924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
1140 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
1141 rather than long int.
1142
114325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1144
114526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
1146
1147
1148Exim version 4.41
1149-----------------
1150
1151 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
1152 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
1153 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
1154 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
1155 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
1156 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
1157
1158
1159Exim version 4.40
1160-----------------
1161
1162 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
1163 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
1164
1165 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
1166 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
1167 socklen_t is defined.
1168
1169 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
1170 always exist.
1171
1172 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
1173 configured.
1174
1175 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
1176 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
1177 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
1178 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
1179 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
1180
1181 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
1182 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
1183 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
1184 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
1185
1186 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
1187 of flapping under certain conditions.
1188
1189 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
1190 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
1191 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
1192
1193 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1194
119510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
1196
119711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
1198 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
1199 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
1200 the duration of the SMTP connection.
1201
120212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
1203 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
1204 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
1205 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
1206 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
1207 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
1208 preserved with the message after it was received.
1209
121013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
1211 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
1212 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
1213 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
1214 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
1215 test suite worked just fine.
1216
121714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
1218 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
1219 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
1220
122115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
1222 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
1223 string.
1224
122516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
1226 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
1227 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
1228 does not fully solve it.
1229
123017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
1231 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
1232 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
1233 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
1234 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
1235
123618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
1237 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
1238 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
1239
124019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
1241 string, for example:
1242
1243 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
1244
1245 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
1246 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
1247 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
1248 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
1249 the routers could not see them.
1250
125120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
1252 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
1253
125421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
1255 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
1256 output).
1257
125822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
1259 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
1260 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
1261 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
1262 that needed quoting.
1263
126423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
1265 was not being matched caselessly.
1266
126724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
1268 backslashes.
1269
127025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
1271 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
1272 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
1273 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
1274 when use_sender is false.
1275
127626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
1277
127827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
1279
128028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
1281
128229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
1283 the configuration file.
1284
128530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
1286 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
1287
128831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
1289
129032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
1291 bytes in the message body.
1292
129333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
1294 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
1295 delivery.
1296
129734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
1298
129935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
1300
130136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
1302 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
1303 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
1304 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
1305 another IP address.
1306
1307
1308Exim version 4.34
1309-----------------
1310
1311 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
1312 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
1313
1314 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
1315 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
1316 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
1317 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
1318 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
1319
1320 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
1321 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
1322
1323 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
1324 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
1325 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
1326
1327 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
1328 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
1329 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
1330
1331 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
1332 for routers.
1333
1334 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
1335 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
1336 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
1337 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
1338 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
1339 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
1340 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
1341
1342
1343Exim version 4.33
1344-----------------
1345
1346 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
1347 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
1348 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
1349 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
1350 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
1351 default (and expected) setting.
1352
1353 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
1354 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
1355 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
1356 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
1357
1358 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
1359 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
1360
1361 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
1362 in domain lists.
1363
1364 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
1365 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
1366 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
1367 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
1368 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
1369 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
1370
1371 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
1372 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
1373 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
1374
1375 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
1376 part (NOT match_host).
1377
1378 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
1379
1380 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
1381 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
1382 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
1383 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
1384 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
1385 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
1386 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
1387 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
1388 the same named file.
1389
139010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
1391 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
1392 when Exim is built.
1393
139411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
1395 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
1396 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
1397 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
1398 a host name.
1399
140012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
1401 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
1402 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
1403
140413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
1405
140614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
1407
140815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
1409
141016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
1411 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
1412
141317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
1414 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
1415 before starting the TLS session.
1416
141718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
1418
141919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
1420 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
1421
142220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
1423 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
1424 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
1425 colon in the middle).
1426
1427
1428Exim version 4.32
1429-----------------
1430
1431 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
1432 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
1433 multiple configurations are in use.
1434
1435 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
1436 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
1437 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
1438 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
1439 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
1440 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
1441
1442 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
1443 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
1444
1445 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
1446 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
1447 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
1448
1449 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
1450 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
1451 occurs.
1452
1453 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
1454 that used bh_ and bheader_.
1455
1456 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
1457
1458 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
1459 allowing one more file than it should have been.
1460
1461 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
1462
1463 -prval:sval
1464
1465 is equivalent to
1466
1467 -oMr rval -oMs sval
1468
1469 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
1470 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
1471 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
1472 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
1473 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
1474
147510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
1476 Exim's behaviour:
1477
1478 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
1479 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
1480 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
1481 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
1482 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
1483 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
1484
1485 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
1486 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
1487 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
1488 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
1489 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
1490 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
1491 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
1492 string.
1493
1494 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
1495 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
1496 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
1497 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
1498 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
1499
150011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
1501
150212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
1503 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
1504 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
1505
150613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
1507
150814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
1509 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
1510 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
1511 information.
1512
151315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
1514 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
1515
151616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
1517 Three changes have been made:
1518
1519 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
1520 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
1521 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
1522 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
1523 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
1524
1525 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
1526 been restored.
1527
1528 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
1529 the modified behaviour.
1530
1531
1532Exim version 4.31
1533-----------------
1534
1535 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
1536 Larry Rosenman.
1537
1538 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
1539 indeed breaks things for older releases.
1540
1541 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
1542 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
1543 try to track down a specific problem.
1544
1545 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
1546 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
1547 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
1548
1549 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
1550 warning.
1551
1552 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
1553 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
1554 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
1555 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
1556 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
1557 some earlier ones do not.
1558
1559 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
1560
1561 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
1562 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
1563 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
1564 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
1565 address literals are enabled, of course).
1566
1567 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
1568
156910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
1570 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
1571 by a command such as
1572
1573 exim -f "" ...
1574
1575 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
1576
157711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
1578
157912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
1580 remained set. It is now erased.
1581
158213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
1583 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
1584
158514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
1586 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
1587 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
1588 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
1589 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
1590 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
1591 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
1592 appropriate error code.
1593
159415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
1595 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
1596 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
1597 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
1598 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
1599 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
1600
160116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
1602 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
1603 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
1604
160517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
1606 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
1607 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
1608 terminate the header.
1609
161018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
1611 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
1612 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
1613
161419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
1615 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
1616 (4.30/29). In particular:
1617
1618 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
1619 imposed.
1620
1621 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
1622 to write a maildirsize file.
1623
1624 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
1625 the transport, the new value overrides.
1626
1627 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
1628 count.
1629
163020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
1631 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
1632 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
1633 space or a tab.
1634
163521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
1636 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
1637 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
1638 the fallback hosts.
1639
164022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
1641 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
1642 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
1643
164423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
1645 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
1646 using a union.
1647
164824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
1649 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
1650 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
1651
165225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
1653
165426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
1655
165627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
1657
165828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
1659 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
1660 become corrupted.
1661
166229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
1663 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
1664 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
1665 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
1666 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
1667 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
1668 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
1669 too great.
1670
167130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
1672 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
1673 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
1674 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
1675 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
1676 incorrectly.
1677
167831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
1679 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
1680 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
1681 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
1682 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
1683 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
1684 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
1685 cached value only when the same options are set.
1686
168732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
1688
168933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
1690 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
1691 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
1692 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
1693 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
1694
169534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
1696 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
1697 it is clearly obsolete.
1698
169935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
1700 transport.
1701
170236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
1703 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
1704 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
1705 times.
1706
170737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
1708 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
1709 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
1710 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
1711 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
1712
171338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
1714 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
1715 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
1716 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
1717
171839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
1719
1720 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
1721
1722 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
1723 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
1724 2^31.
1725
172640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
1727 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
1728 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
1729 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
1730 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
1731 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
1732 $localpart_data.
1733
173441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
1735 with the -f command-line option.
1736
173742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
1738 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
1739 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
1740 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
1741 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
1742 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1743
174443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
1745 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
1746 line.
1747
174844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
1749 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
1750 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
1751 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
1752 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
1753 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
1754 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
1755 buffer is too small.
1756
175745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
1758 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
1759
176046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
1761 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
1762 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
1763 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
1764 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
1765 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
1766 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
1767 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
1768 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
1769
177047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
1771 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
1772 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
1773
177448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
1775 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
1776 ACL").
1777
177849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
1779 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
1780 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
1781 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
1782 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
1783
178450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
1785 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
1786 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
1787 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
1788 is set.
1789
179051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
1791
179252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
1793
179453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
1795 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
1796
179754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
1798 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
1799 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
1800
180155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
1802 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
1803 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
1804 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
1805 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
1806
180756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
1808 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
1809 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
1810 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
1811 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
1812 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
1813 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
1814
181557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
1816 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
1817 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
1818 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
1819 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
1820 the test of how many are available.
1821
182258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
1823 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
1824 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
1825 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
1826 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
1827 new message is started.
1828
182959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
1830 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
1831
183260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
1833 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
1834
183561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
1836 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
1837 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
1838 is no long logged.
1839
184062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
1841 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
1842 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
1843 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
1844 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
1845 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
1846 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
1847
184863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
1849 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
1850 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
1851 interpreted as octal.
1852
185364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
1854 setting.
1855
185665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
1857 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
1858 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
1859 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
1860 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
1861 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
1862
186366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
1864 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
1865 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
1866 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
1867
1868 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
1869 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
1870 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
1871 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
1872
1873 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
1874 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
1875 is a bug fix.
1876
1877 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
1878 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
1879
188067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1881
188268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
1883 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
1884 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
1885 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
1886
188769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
1888 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
1889 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
1890 supplied", which is not helpful.
1891
189270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
1893 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
1894 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
1895
189671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
1897 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
1898 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
1899 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
1900 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
1901 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
1902 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
1903 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
1904
190572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
1906 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
1907 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
1908 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
1909 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
1910
191173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
1912 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
1913 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
1914 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
1915 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
1916 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
1917
191874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
1919 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
1920 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
1921
192275. Added write_rejectlog option.
1923
192476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
1925 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
1926 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
1927 variables.
1928
192977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
1930
193178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
1932 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
1933 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
1934 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
1935 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
1936 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
1937 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
1938 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
1939
194079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
1941 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
1942 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
1943 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
1944 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
1945
194680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
1947 Haardt.
1948
194981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
1950 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
1951 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
1952 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
1953 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
1954 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
1955 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
1956 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
1957 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
1958
1959
1960Exim version 4.30
1961-----------------
1962
1963 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
1964 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
1965 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
1966
1967 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
1968 fixed.
1969
1970 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
1971 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
1972 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
1973
1974 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
1975 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
1976 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
1977 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
1978 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
1979 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
1980
1981 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
1982 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
1983 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
1984 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
1985 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
1986 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
1987 the Exim test suite.
1988
1989 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
1990 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
1991 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
1992 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
1993
1994 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
1995 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
1996 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
1997 specify it in this variable.
1998
1999 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2000 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2001 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2002 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2003
2004 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2005 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2006 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2007 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2008
2009 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2010 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2011 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2012 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2013 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2014
2015 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2016
201710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2018 they are logged.
2019
202011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2021 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2022 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2023 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2024 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2025
202612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2027 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2028
202913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2030 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2031 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2032 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2033 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2034
203514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2036 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2037
203815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2039 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2040 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2041
204216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2043 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2044
204517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2046 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2047
204818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2049 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2050 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2051
205219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2053 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2054
205520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2056 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2057 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2058 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2059
206021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2061
206222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2063 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2064 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2065 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2066
206723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2068
206924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2070 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2071
207225. Added .include_if_exists.
2073
207426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2075 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2076 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2077 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2078 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2079 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2080
208127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2082
208328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
2084 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
2085 this.
2086
208729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
2088
208930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
2090 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
2091
2092 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
2093 550 Sender verify failed
2094
2095 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
2096 the final line of the response.
2097
209831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
2099 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
2100 all other user lookups.
2101
210232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
2103 delivery time.
2104
210533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
2106 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
2107 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
2108 result into an int without checking.
2109
211034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
2111 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
2112 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
2113
211435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
2115 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
2116 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
2117 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
2118
211936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
2120 correctly.
2121
212237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
2123 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
2124
212538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
2126 to the empty sender.
2127
212839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
2129 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
2130 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
2131 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
2132 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
2133 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
2134 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
2135 panic log.
2136
213740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
2138 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
2139 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
2140 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
2141 used.
2142
214341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
2144 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
2145
214642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
2147 timestamps.
2148
214943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
2150 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
2151
215244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
2153
215445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
2155 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
2156 logs.
2157
215846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
2159 as soon as it is encountered.
2160
216147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
2162
216348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
2164 rewritten to "<>".
2165
216649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
2167 recognizes a tab character.
2168
216950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
2170 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
2171 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
2172 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
2173
217451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
2175
217652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
2177 crash.
2178
217953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
2180
218154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
2182
218355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
2184 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
2185 2822.
2186
218756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
2188 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
2189 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
2190 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
2191 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
2192
219357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
2194 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
2195
219658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
2197 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
2198 list (.included file names were always shown).
2199
220059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
2201 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
2202 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
2203 root at that time.
2204
220560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
2206 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
2207
220861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
2209
221062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
2211
221263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
2213
221464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
2215 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
2216 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
2217 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
2218 failures to open the logs.
2219
222065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
2221 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
2222 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
2223 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
2224 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
2225 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
2226 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
2227
2228
2229Exim version 4.24
2230-----------------
2231
2232 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
2233 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
2234 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
2235 change 4.23/1.
2236
2237 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
2238 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
2239 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
2240
2241 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
2242 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
2243 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
2244
2245 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
2246 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
2247 causing some misleading effects.
2248
2249 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
2250 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
2251 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
2252
2253 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
2254 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
2255 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
2256 queue-runner function directly.
2257
2258
2259Exim version 4.23
2260-----------------
2261
2262 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
2263 HEADERS_CHARSET.
2264
2265 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
2266 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
2267 was always written to the default place.
2268
2269 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
2270 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
2271 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
2272
2273 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
2274
2275 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
2276
2277 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
2278 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
2279 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
2280
2281 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
2282 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
2283 must start.
2284
2285 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
2286 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
2287 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
2288
2289 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
2290 command line option is disabled.
2291
2292 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
2293 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
2294
2295 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
2296
2297 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
2298
2299 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
2300 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
2301
230210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
2303
230411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
2305 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
2306 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
2307 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
2308 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
2309 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
2310
231112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
2312 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
2313 timeout.
2314
231513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
2316 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
2317
231814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
2319 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
2320
232115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
2322 received was valid base64.
2323
232416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
2325 name of the variable that was being set.
2326
232717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
2328
232918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
2330 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
2331 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
2332 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
2333 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
2334 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
2335
233619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
2337
233820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
2339 nor realm was specified.
2340
234121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
2342 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
2343 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
2344 errors are given to SMTP connections.
2345
234622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
2347 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
2348 failing to send a response to QUIT.
2349
235023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
2351 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
2352 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
2353
235424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
2355 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
2356 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
2357 some systems use these upper case variants.
2358
235925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
2360 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
2361 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
2362 socket" when it tried to send the third.
2363
236426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
2365
236627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
2367 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
2368
236928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
2370 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
2371 expansion variable.
2372
237329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
2374
237530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
2376 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
2377 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
2378 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
2379
238031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
2381 using it.
2382
238332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
2384 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
2385 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
2386
238733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
2388 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
2389
239034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
2391 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
2392 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
2393 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
2394
239535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
2396 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
2397 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
2398
239936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
2400
240137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
2402 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
2403 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
2404 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
2405 aborted.
2406
240738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
2408 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
2409 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
2410
241139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
2412
241340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
2414 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
2415
241641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
2417 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
2418
241942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
2420 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
2421 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
2422 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
2423 when emails are that large.
2424
2425
2426
2427Exim version 4.22
2428-----------------
2429
2430 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
2431 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
2432
2433 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
2434 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
2435 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
2436
2437 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
2438 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
2439 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
2440
2441 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
2442 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
2443 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
2444 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
2445 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
2446
2447 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
2448 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
2449 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
2450 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
2451 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
2452 ever.
2453
2454 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
2455 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
2456 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
2457 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
2458 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
2459 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
2460 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
2461 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
2462 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
2463 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
2464 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
2465 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
2466 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
2467 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
2468
2469 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
2470 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
2471 parameterised it.
2472
2473 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
2474 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
2475 error should be diagnosed.
2476
2477 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
2478 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
2479 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
2480 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
2481 appeared instead of "NULL".
2482
248310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
2484 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
2485 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
2486 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
2487 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
2488 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
2489 proceeds).
2490
2491 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
2492 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
2493 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
2494
2495
2496Exim version 4.21
2497-----------------
2498
2499 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
2500 or receiver verification errors.
2501
2502 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
2503 name.
2504
2505 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
2506 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
2507 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
2508 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
2509
2510 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
2511 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
2512 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
2513 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
2514 shouldn't happen again.
2515
2516 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
2517 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
2518 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
2519
2520 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
2521 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
2522
2523 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
2524
2525 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
2526 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
2527
2528 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
2529 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
2530 RFC.
2531
253210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
2533 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
2534 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
2535
253611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
2537 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
2538 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
2539 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
2540
254112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
2542 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
2543 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
2544 to define what should happen).
2545
254613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
2547 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
2548 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
2549
255014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
2551
255215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
2553
255416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
2555 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
2556
255717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
2558 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
2559 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
2560 structure in all cases.
2561
2562 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
2563 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
2564 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
2565 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
2566
256718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
2568 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
2569 domain name.
2570
257119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
2572 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
2573
257420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
2575 MD5 (which is deprecated).
2576
257721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
2578 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
2579 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
2580
258122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
2582 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
2583 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
2584
258523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
2586 the book and for uniformity.
2587
258824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
2589
259025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
2591 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
2592 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
2593 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
2594 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
2595 non-existent command as the problem.
2596
259726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
2598 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
2599 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
2600
260127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
2602
260328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
2604 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
2605 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
2606
260729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
2608 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
2609 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
2610 timestamps using strftime().
2611
261230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
2613 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
2614
261532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
2616 transport-time rewrites.
2617
261833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
2619 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
2620 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
2621 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
2622
262334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
2624 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
2625
262635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
2627 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
2628 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
2629 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
2630 comma and a space.
2631
263236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
2633 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
2634 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
2635 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
2636 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
2637 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
2638 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
2639
264037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
2641 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
2642 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
2643 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
2644 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
2645
264638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
2647 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
2648 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
2649 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
2650 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
2651 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
2652 remaining text gets split now.
2653
265439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
2655 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
2656 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
2657 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
2658
265940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
2660 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
2661 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
2662 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
2663 $return_path.
2664
266541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
2666 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
2667 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
2668 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
2669 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
2670 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
2671 passed through if needed.
2672
267342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
2674 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
2675 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
2676 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
2677 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
2678 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
2679
268043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
2681 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
2682 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
2683 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
2684 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
2685
268644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
2687 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
2688 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
2689 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
2690 incorrect size information for certain domains.
2691
269245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
2693 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
2694 noticed.
2695
269646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
2697 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
2698 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
2699 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
2700 mayhem of various kinds.
2701
270247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
2703 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
2704 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
2705 the right test for positive values.
2706
270748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
2708 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
2709 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
2710 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
2711 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
2712 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
2713 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
2714 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
2715 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
2716 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
2717 envelope.
2718
271949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
2720 module.
2721
272250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
2723 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
2724 forbidding it.
2725
272651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
2727 the existing equality matching.
2728
272952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
2730 dealing with inode numbers.
2731
273253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
2733 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
2734 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
2735
273654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
2737 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
2738 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
2739 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
2740 local_scan().
2741
274255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
2743 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
2744 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
2745 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
2746 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
2747 relay addresses has also been removed.
2748
274956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
2750
275157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
2752 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
2753 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
2754
275558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
2756 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
2757 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
2758 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
2759 processing applies to CR:
2760
2761 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
2762 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
2763
2764 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
2765 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
2766 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
2767 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
2768
276959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
2770 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
2771 This is a VOB (very old bug).
2772
277360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
2774 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
2775 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
2776 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
2777 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
2778 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
2779 arisen.
2780
278161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
2782 program routers.
2783
278462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
2785 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
2786 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
2787 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
2788 adds:
2789
2790 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2791
2792 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
2793
2794 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
2795
279663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
2797 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
2798 not considered personal.
2799
280064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
2801
280265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
2803
280466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
2805
280667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
2807 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
2808 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
2809 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
2810 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
2811 header lines, and spool format errors.
2812
281368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
2814 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
2815 for more flexibility.
2816
281769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
2818 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
2819 consulting and updating the callout cache.
2820
282170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
2822 Sabourenkov.
2823
282471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
2825 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
2826 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
2827 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
2828 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
2829 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
2830 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
2831 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
2832 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
2833
283472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
2835 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
2836 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
2837 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
2838 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
2839 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
2840 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
2841
284273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
2843 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
2844 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
2845
284674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
2847 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
2848 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
2849 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
2850 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
2851 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
2852 instead of killing the process with assert().
2853
285475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
2855 than Unicode encoding.
2856
285776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
2858 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
2859 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
2860 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
2861
286277. Added process_log_path.
2863
286478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
2865 check_log_inodes was ignored.
2866
286779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
2868 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
2869
287080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
2871 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
2872 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
2873
287481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
2875 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
2876 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
2877 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
2878 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
2879 were applied:
2880
2881 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
2882 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
2883 as invalid.
2884
288582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
2886 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
2887 they will be used during message reception.
2888
2889
2890Exim version 4.20
2891-----------------
2892
2893The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
2894
2895****