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2
3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
4-------------------------------------------
5
6Exim version 4.75
7-----------------
8
9NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependancy in version reporting
10 Bugzilla 1073
11
12TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
13 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
14 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
15
16TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
17 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
18
19PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
20 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
21 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
22
23PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
24 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
25
26PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
27 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
28
29NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
30 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
31
32NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
33 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
34
35PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
36 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
37
38
39Exim version 4.74
40-----------------
41
42TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
43 consequences so log it to the panic log.
44
45TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
46 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
47
48TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
49
50DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
51 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
52 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
53
54PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
55 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
56 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
57
58PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
59 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
60 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
61 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
62
63PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
64 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
65 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
66 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
67
68PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
69 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
70 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
71 arbitrary files.
72
73PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
74 (Wolfgang Breyha)
75
76PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
77 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
78 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
79 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
80 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
81
82
83Exim version 4.73
84-----------------
85
86PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
87 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
88 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
89
90PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
91 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
92
93JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
94
95PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
96
97PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
98
99PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
100
101PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
102
103PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
104 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
105 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
106 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
107
108PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
109 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
110 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
111 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
112 more caution in buffer sizes.
113
114PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
115
116PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
117
118PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
119
120PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
121
122PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
123
124PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
125
126PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
127
128PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
129 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
130 ignore trailing whitespace.
131
132JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
133
134JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
135 "exim" to be used
136
137PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
138 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
139
140PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
141 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
142 Notification from John Horne.
143
144PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
145 compatible.
146
147PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
148 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
149 it normally works.
150
151DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
152 access.
153
154DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
155 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
156 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
157
158DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
159 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
160 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
161 configuration file.
162
163DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
164 option (effectively making it always true).
165
166DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
167 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
168
169DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
170 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
171
172PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
173 run-time user, instead of root.
174
175PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overriden by the
176 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
177
178DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
179 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
180 arguments.
181
182DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
183 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
184 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
185
186DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
187
188NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
189
190
191Exim version 4.72
192-----------------
193
194JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
195 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
196 typos
197
198JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
199 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
200 (Finput)
201
202NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
203 Patch from Alain Williams
204
205NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
206
207NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
208 Patch from Andreas Metzler
209
210NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
211 Patch from Kirill Miazine
212
213NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
214
215JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
216
217NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
218 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
219
220TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
221
222TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
223
224MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
225 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
226 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
227
228NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
229 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
230
231NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
232 Patch by Simon Arlott
233
234PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
235 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
236
237
238Exim version 4.71
239-----------------
240
241TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
242
243NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
244
245NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
246
247NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
248
249NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
250
251
252Exim version 4.70
253-----------------
254
255TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
256 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
257
258TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
259 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
260 Hirsch).
261
262TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
263 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
264 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
265
266TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
267 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
268
269NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
270 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
271 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
272 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
273
274NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
275 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
276 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
277
278TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
279
280TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
281
282NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
283 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
284
285NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
286
287TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
288 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
289 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
290 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
291
292NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
293 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
294
295TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
296
297NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
298
299NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
300 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
301
302TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
303 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
304
305TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
306 that they are available at delivery time.
307
308TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
309
310TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
311 incoming_port log selectors.
312
313TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
314 setting expands to an empty string.
315
316NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
317 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
318
319NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
320 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
321
322NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
323 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
324
325NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
326 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
327
328NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
329 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
330
331NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
332 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
333
334NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
335
336NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
337 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
338
339NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
340 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
341
342TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
343
344NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
345 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
346
347NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
348
349NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
350
351NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
352 lsearch.
353
354NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
355 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
356
357NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
358 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
359
360NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
361 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
362
363NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
364 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
365
366NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
367 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
368
369NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
370 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
371
372NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
373 plus update to original patch.
374
375NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
376
377NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
378 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
379
380NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
381
382NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
383
384NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
385
386NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
387
388NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
389 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
390
391NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
392 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
393
394NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
395 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
396
397NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
398 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
399
400NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
401
402NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
403
404NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
405
406NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
407
408
409Exim version 4.69
410-----------------
411
412TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
413 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
414 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
415
416 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
417 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
418 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
419 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
420 build errors in sieve.c.
421
422NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
423 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
424 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
425
426SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
427
428NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
429
430NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
431
432NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
433
434
435Exim version 4.68
436-----------------
437
438PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
439
440PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
441 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
442 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
443 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
444 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
445 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
446 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
447 for iplsearch lookups.
448
449 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
450 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
451 previously such lookups could never work.
452
453 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
454 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
455 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
456
457TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
458 version.
459
460MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
461 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
462 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
463 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
464 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
465 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
466
467TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
468 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
469
470MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
471 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
472 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
473 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
474 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
475 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
476
477PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
478 local_scan API.
479
480PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
481
482PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
483 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
484 encrypted.
485
486PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
487 by clients under certain conditions.
488
489PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
490 "_responses" off the end of the name.
491
492PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
493
494PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
495 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
496
497PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
498
499PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
500
501PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
502
503PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
504 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
505
506PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
507
508PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
509 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
510
511PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
512
513PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
514
515PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
516 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
517 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
518 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
519
520PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
521 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
522 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
523
524PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
525 and InterBase are left for another time.)
526
527PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
528
529PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
530
531PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
532
533PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
534 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
535 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
536
537
538Exim version 4.67
539-----------------
540
541MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
542 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
543 Jan Srzednicki.
544
545PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
546 issue a MAIL command.
547
548PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
549
550 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
551
552 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
553 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
554 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
555 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
556 item. This has been fixed.
557
558PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
559 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
560
561PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
562 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
563
564PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
565 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
566 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
567
568SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
569
570PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
571 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
572 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
573 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
574 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
575
576MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
577 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
578 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
579
580PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
581 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
582 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
583 the server_setid option was incorrect.
584
585PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
586
587PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
588
589PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
590 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
591 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
592 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
593 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
594
595PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
596
597PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
598 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
599 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
600 values).
601
602PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
603
604PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
605
606PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
607
608PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
609
610PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
611
612PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
613 no_callout_flush is set.
614
615PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
616 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
617 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
618 fixed.
619
620PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
621
622PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
623 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
624 other ACL rejections are.
625
626PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
627 with slight modification.
628
629PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
630 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
631
632PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
633 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
634 connection.
635
636PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
637 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
638
639SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
640
641PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
642 expansion side effects.
643
644PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
645 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
646 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
647 be the same.
648
649MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
650 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
651 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
652
653PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
654 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
655 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
656 were accidentally chopped off.
657
658PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
659 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
660 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
661 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
662 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
663 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
664 pipelining has not been advertised.
665
666PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
667
668PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
669 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
670 This has been fixed.
671
672PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
673 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
674 reported on Solaris.
675
676PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
677 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
678 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
679 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
680 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
681 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
682 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
683
684PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
685 cpus.
686
687PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
688
689PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
690
691PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
692 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
693 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
694 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
695 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
696 criteria to be more general.
697
698PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
699 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
700 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
701 host_all_ignored option.
702
703PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
704 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
705 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
706 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
707 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
708 is what is supposed to happen).
709
710PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
711 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
712 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
713 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
714 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
715 uses the Exim user.
716
717PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
718 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
719 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
720 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
721 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
722 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
723 users.
724
725PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
726
727SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
728 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
729 (Jez Hancock).
730 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
731 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
732
733SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
734
735PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
736
737PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
738 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
739 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
740 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
741 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
742 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
743 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
744 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
745 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
746 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
747 least in a lot of common cases.
748
749PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
750 advertised in response to EHLO.
751
752
753Exim version 4.66
754-----------------
755
756PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
757 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
758
759 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
760 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
761
762 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
763 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
764 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
765
766 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
767 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
768 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
769 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
770 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
771
772
773Exim version 4.65
774-----------------
775
776TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
777 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
778 versions. (#438)
779
780MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
781 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
782 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
783
784PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
785 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
786 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
787 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
788 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
789 rather than extend the field.
790
791
792Exim version 4.64
793-----------------
794
795TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
796 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
797 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
798 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
799 these files.
800
801TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
802 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
803 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
804
805TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
806 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
807 hence the _LINUX specificness.
808
809TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
810 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
811 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
812 in the field name.
813
814PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
815 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
816 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
817 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
818 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
819 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
820 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
821 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
822 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
823 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
824 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
825
826PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
827 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
828
829PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
830 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
831 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
832 ignores EPIPE as well.
833
834PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
835 (quoted-printable decoding).
836
837PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
838 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
839
840PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
841
842PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
843
844PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
845
846PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
847 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
848
849JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
850 in 4.64-PH/09.
851
852JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
853 miscellaneous code fixes
854
855PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
856 rejections.
857
858PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
859 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
860 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
861 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
862 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
863 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
864 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
865 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
866
867PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
868 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
869 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
870 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
871 function.
872 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
873 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
874 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
875 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
876 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
877 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
878 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
879 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
880 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
881
882PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
883 decoding.
884
885PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
886 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
887 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
888 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
889 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
890 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
891 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
892 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
893
894PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
895 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
896 list.
897
898PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
899 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
900 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
901 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
902 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
903 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
904 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
905 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
906 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
907 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
908 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
909 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
910 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
911
912PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
913 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
914 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
915 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
916 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
917 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
918 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
919
920PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
921 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
922 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
923 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
924 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
925 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
926 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
927 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
928 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
929 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
930
931PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
932 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
933 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
934 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
935 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
936
937PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
938 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
939 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
940 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
941 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
942 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
943 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
944
945PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
946 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
947 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
948 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
949 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
950 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
951 been verified.
952
953PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
954 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
955 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
956 and authorization.)
957
958PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
959 if any retry times were supplied.
960
961PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
962 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
963 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
964
965PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
966
967PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
968
969PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
970 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
971 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
972 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
973 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
974 before) are ignored.
975
976PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
977 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
978
979PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
980 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
981 committing the later change.]
982
983PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
984 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
985 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
986 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
987 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
988 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
989 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
990 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
991 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
992
993 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
994 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
995 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
996 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
997 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
998 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
999 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1000 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1001 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1002
1003 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1004 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1005 hammering the server.
1006
1007PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1008 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1009
1010PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1011
1012PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1013 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1014 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1015
1016PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1017 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1018 one case where this was not true.
1019
1020PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1021 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1022 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1023 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1024 fails.
1025
1026PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1027 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1028 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1029 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1030 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1031 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1032 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1033 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1034 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1035 smtp transport.
1036
1037PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1038 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1039 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1040 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1041
1042PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1043 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1044
1045PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1046 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1047 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1048
1049PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1050
1051PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1052
1053PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1054
1055PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1056 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1057 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1058 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1059
1060PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1061 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1062
1063PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1064 be meaningful with "accept".
1065
1066SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1067 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1068
1069SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1070 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1071 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1072
1073SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1074 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1075 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1076 there is data to show.
1077 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1078
1079SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1080 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1081 as well as the number of messages.
1082
1083SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1084 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1085 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1086
1087SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1088 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1089 have a flag are now skipped.
1090
1091SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1092 Added the -emptyok flag.
1093
1094SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1095 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1096
1097JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1098 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1099 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1100
1101JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1102 match 4.64-PH/13
1103
1104JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1105 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1106
1107JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1108
1109JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1110 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1111
1112PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1113
1114PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1115 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1116 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1117 contravention of the specifications.
1118
1119PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1120 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1121 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
1122
1123PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1124 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1125 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1126
1127PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1128
1129MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1130 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1131 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1132 some point in the past.
1133
1134PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1135 transport during callout processing was broken.
1136
1137PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1138 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1139
1140PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1141 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1142
1143PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1144 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1145
1146PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1147
1148
1149Exim version 4.63
1150-----------------
1151
1152SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1153 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1154
1155SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1156 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1157 there is data to show.
1158 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1159
1160SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1161 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1162
1163TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1164 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
1165
1166TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1167 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
1168
1169TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1170 submissions from trusted users.
1171
1172TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1173 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1174
1175TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1176 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1177 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1178 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1179 there is now a framework to start from.
1180
1181PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1182 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1183 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1184
1185PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1186
1187PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1188
1189PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1190
1191PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1192 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1193 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1194
1195PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1196 libradius.
1197
1198PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1199 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1200 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1201
1202PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1203 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1204 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1205 its arguments.
1206
1207PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1208 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1209 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1210 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1211 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1212
1213PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1214 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1215
1216PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1217
1218PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1219 operations in malware.c.
1220
1221PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1222 signatures.
1223
1224PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1225 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1226 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1227 all.
1228
1229PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1230 statements to "add_header".
1231
1232PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1233 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1234
1235PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1236 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1237 latter.
1238
1239PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
1240 so that it is now:
1241
1242 ${if or { \
1243 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1244 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1245 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
1246 }{no}{yes}}
1247
1248 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1249 don't think Precedence: ever was.
1250
1251PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1252 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1253
1254PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1255 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1256 any possible encoding problems.
1257
1258PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1259 but not after initializing Perl.
1260
1261PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1262 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1263 apparently, which is not desirable.
1264
1265PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1266 queries.
1267
1268JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1269 --not options
1270
1271JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1272
1273PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1274 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1275 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1276 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1277
1278PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1279 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1280 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1281
1282PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1283 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1284 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1285 0.12.
1286
1287PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1288 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1289 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1290 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1291 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1292
1293
1294Exim version 4.62
1295-----------------
1296
1297TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1298 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1299
1300PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1301 patch).
1302
1303PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1304 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1305 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1306 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1307 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1308 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1309 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1310 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1311 451 error is used.
1312
1313PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1314
1315PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1316 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1317 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1318
1319PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1320 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1321 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1322 odd errors.
1323
1324PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1325 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1326
1327PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1328 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1329 option (which defaults to 0600).
1330
1331PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1332
1333PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1334 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1335 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1336 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1337 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1338 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1339 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1340
1341PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1342
1343
1344Exim version 4.61
1345-----------------
1346
1347PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1348 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1349 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1350 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1351 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1352 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1353 addresses as local.
1354
1355PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1356 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1357
1358PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1359
1360PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1361 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1362 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1363 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1364 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1365 grumble.
1366
1367PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1368 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1369
1370PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1371 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1372 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1373 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1374 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1375
1376PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1377 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1378 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1379 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1380
1381PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1382 be the same on different OS.
1383
1384PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1385 testing.
1386
1387JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1388 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1389
1390JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1391 in 4.61-PH/06
1392
1393PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1394 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1395 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1396 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1397 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1398 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1399 bounce message.
1400
1401PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1402 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1403 when Exim was called.
1404
1405PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1406 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1407
1408PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1409 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1410 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1411 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1412
1413PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1414 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1415 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1416 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1417 changes:
1418
1419 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1420 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1421 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1422
1423 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1424 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1425 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1426
1427PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1428 feature).
1429
1430PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1431 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1432 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1433 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1434 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1435 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1436 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1437 values from the SRV records were lost.
1438
1439PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1440 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1441 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1442
1443PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1444 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1445 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1446
1447PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1448 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1449 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1450 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1451 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1452 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1453 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1454 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1455 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
1456 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
1457
1458PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1459 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1460 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1461
1462PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1463 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1464
1465PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1466 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1467 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1468 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1469 is given.
1470
1471PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1472 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1473 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1474
1475PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1476 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1477 PH/23 above applies.
1478
1479PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1480 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1481 (for which there is an explicit test).
1482
1483PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1484
1485PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1486 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1487 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1488 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1489 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1490
1491PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1492 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1493 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1494 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1495
1496PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1497 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1498 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1499
1500PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1501
1502PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1503
1504PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1505 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1506 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1507
1508PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1509 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1510 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1511 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1512 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1513
1514PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1515 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1516 the message gets confusing).
1517
1518PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1519 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1520 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1521 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1522
1523PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1524 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1525 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1526 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1527 same order.
1528
1529PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1530 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1531 the different processes.
1532
1533PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1534
1535PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1536
1537JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1538 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1539
1540JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1541 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1542
1543JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1544 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1545 messages matching specified criteria.
1546
1547PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1548
1549PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1550 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1551
1552PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1553 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1554 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1555 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1556 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1557 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1558 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1559 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1560 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1561 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1562
1563PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1564 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1565 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1566
1567PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1568
1569PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1570 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1571 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1572 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1573 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1574 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1575 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1576 the variable.
1577
1578PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1579 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1580
1581PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1582
1583PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1584
1585PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1586
1587PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1588 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1589 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1590 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1591 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1592 size of the count of files.
1593
1594PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1595
1596PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1597 used in LMTP mode:
1598
1599 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1600 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1601 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1602 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1603
1604 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1605 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1606 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1607
1608PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1609 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1610 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1611 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1612 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1613
1614PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1615 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1616
1617PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1618 will now be deprecated.
1619
1620PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1621
1622JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1623 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1624 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1625
1626JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1627 with very large, slow to parse queues
1628
1629JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1630
1631JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1632
1633PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1634 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1635 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1636 SMTP output lines.
1637
1638PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1639 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1640 Sieve code now uses this.
1641
1642PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1643 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1644
1645PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1646 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1647
1648PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1649
1650PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1651 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1652 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1653 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1654 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1655
1656PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1657 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1658 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1659 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1660
1661PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1662
1663PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1664
1665PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1666 is preferred over IPv4.
1667
1668PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1669 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1670 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1671 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1672 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1673 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1674 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1675
1676PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1677 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1678 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1679
1680PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1681
1682PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1683 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1684 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1685 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1686 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1687 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1688 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1689 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1690 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1691 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1692 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1693
1694PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1695 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1696 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1697
1698
1699Exim version 4.60
1700-----------------
1701
1702PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1703
1704 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1705 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1706
1707 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1708 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1709 statements are most likely to be submissions.
1710
1711PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1712
1713 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1714 not a single digit.
1715
1716 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1717 string.
1718
1719 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1720 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1721 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1722 silly things.
1723
1724 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1725 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1726
1727 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1728 inside the third argument.
1729
1730PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1731 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1732 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1733
1734PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1735 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
1736
1737PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1738 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1739
1740 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1741
1742 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1743 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1744 this:
1745
1746 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1747
1748PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1749 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1750 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1751 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1752 identical. For example:
1753
1754 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1755
1756 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1757 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1758 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1759
1760PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1761 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1762 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1763 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1764
1765PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1766 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1767 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1768 message.
1769
1770PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1771
1772 o fixes some comments
1773 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1774 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1775 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1776 and documents the missing references header update
1777
1778 and most important:
1779
1780 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1781 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1782 result)
1783
1784PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1785 Electronic Mail") by including:
1786
1787 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1788
1789 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1790 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1791 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1792 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1793 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1794
1795 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1796
1797 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1798
1799 The auto-replied keyword:
1800
1801 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1802 message by an automatic process,
1803
1804 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1805
1806 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1807 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1808
1809 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1810 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1811 other messages.
1812
1813PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1814 to the default Received: header definition.
1815
1816PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1817
1818PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1819 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1820 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1821
1822PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1823 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1824 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1825
1826PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1827 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1828 and treats the condition as false.
1829
1830PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1831
1832PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1833 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1834 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1835 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1836 not changing the active code.
1837
1838 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1839 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1840
1841 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1842 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1843
1844PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1845 (Bugzilla #53).
1846
1847PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1848 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1849 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1850 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1851 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1852 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1853 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1854 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1855 the text comparison.
1856
1857PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1858 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1859 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1860 The same fix has been applied.
1861
1862
1863Exim version 4.54
1864-----------------
1865
1866PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1867 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1868 It now does.
1869
1870PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1871 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1872
1873PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1874
1875PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1876 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1877 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1878 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1879 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1880
1881TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1882 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1883 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1884 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1885 or /domain=).
1886
1887PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1888 testing suite.
1889
1890
1891
1892Exim version 4.53
1893-----------------
1894
1895TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1896 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1897
1898PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1899
1900PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1901
1902PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1903 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1904 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1905
1906PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1907 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1908 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1909
1910PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1911 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1912 operating systems.
1913
1914PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1915 ${stat: expansion item.
1916
1917PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1918 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1919
1920PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1921 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1922 file for comments.
1923
1924PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1925
1926PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1927 setting.
1928
1929PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1930 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1931
1932TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1933
1934PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1935 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1936 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1937 the end of the subprocess.
1938
1939PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1940 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1941 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1942 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1943 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1944
1945JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1946
1947TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1948
1949PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1950 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1951
1952PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1953
1954PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1955
1956PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1957 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1958 HP-UX compiler.
1959
1960PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1961
1962PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1963 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1964 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1965
1966PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1967 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1968
1969PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1970 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1971
1972PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1973 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1974
1975 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1976 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1977
1978 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1979 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1980 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1981 contributed by a Radius user.
1982
1983PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1984 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1985
1986TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1987 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1988
1989PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1990 available.
1991
1992PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1993 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1994 received.
1995
1996PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1997 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1998 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1999 header lines when this was not necessary.
2000
2001PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2002
2003PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2004 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2005 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2006 exists".
2007
2008PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2009 -bV or -d is used.
2010
2011PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2012 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
2013 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2014 return code was incorrect.
2015
2016PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2017
2018PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2019
2020TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2021
2022PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2023
2024PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2025 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2026 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2027 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2028 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2029 settings.
2030
2031PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2032
2033PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2034 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2035 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2036 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2037 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2038 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2039 which is clearly wrong.
2040
2041PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2042
2043PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2044 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2045 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2046 subsequently added.
2047
2048PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2049 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2050
2051PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2052
2053PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2054 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2055
2056PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2057 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2058
2059PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2060 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2061
2062PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2063 recipients, not senders.
2064
2065TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2066 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2067
2068PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2069
2070PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2071
2072PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2073 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2074 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2075 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2076
2077TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2078
2079TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2080 clock is set back in time.
2081
2082TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2083 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2084
2085TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2086 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2087
2088PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2089 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2090 (see PH/47 above).
2091
2092TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2093 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2094 header rewrites.
2095
2096PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2097 type ("H").
2098
2099PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2100
2101TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2102 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2103 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2104
2105TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2106 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2107 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2108 helo verification defer as a failure.
2109
2110PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2111 actual error message.
2112
2113
2114Exim version 4.52
2115-----------------
2116
2117TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2118
2119PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2120 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2121 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2122 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2123
2124TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2125
2126PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2127 can still be requested.
2128
2129PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2130 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2131 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2132 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2133
2134TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2135 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2136 circumstances, but probably never did.
2137
2138PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2139 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2140 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2141 in the header line.
2142
2143TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2144
2145TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2146 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
2147
2148TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2149
2150TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2151
2152PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2153 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2154 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2155 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2156 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2157 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
2158
2159PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2160 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2161 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2162 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2163 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2164 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2165
2166TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2167 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2168
2169PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2170 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2171
2172SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2173 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2174
2175SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2176
2177SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2178
2179SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2180
2181SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2182
2183SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2184
2185SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2186
2187TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2188
2189TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2190 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2191 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2192
2193TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2194 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2195 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2196 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2197
2198PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2199 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2200 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2201
2202PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2203 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2204 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2205 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2206
2207PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2208 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2209 to be made).
2210
2211PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2212 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2213 should work with maildirs and everything.
2214
2215TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2216 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2217
2218TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2219 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2220
2221PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2222 function for BDB 4.3.
2223
2224PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2225
2226PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2227 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2228 involved.
2229
2230PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2231 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2232 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
2233 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2234 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2235 formatting function string_vformat().
2236
2237PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2238 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2239 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2240 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2241 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2242 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2243 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2244 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2245
2246TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2247 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2248 details.
2249
2250PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2251 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2252
2253PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2254 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2255 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2256 test. It is now used for both.
2257
2258PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2259 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2260 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2261 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2262 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2263 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2264
2265PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2266 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2267 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2268 string_vformat().
2269
2270PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2271 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2272 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
2273
2274PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2275 experimental DomainKeys support:
2276
2277 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2278 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2279 the control was given.
2280
2281 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2282
2283PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2284
2285PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2286
2287PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2288 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2289 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2290 db.h files).
2291
2292PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
2293 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2294 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2295 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2296 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2297 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2298 course.
2299
2300PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2301 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2302 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2303 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2304 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2305 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2306
2307PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2308 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2309 do -d+all out of habit.
2310
2311PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2312 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2313 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2314
2315PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2316 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2317 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2318 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2319 record types that Exim uses.
2320
2321PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2322 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2323 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2324 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2325 non-existent file that was broken.
2326
2327TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2328 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2329
2330TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2331 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2332 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2333
2334TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2335
2336PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2337 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2338 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2339 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2340 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2341 same time.
2342
2343SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2344 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2345 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2346 at a slight CPU cost.
2347
2348SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2349 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2350
2351SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2352 by Marc Sherman.
2353
2354SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2355
2356PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2357 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2358
2359
2360Exim version 4.51
2361-----------------
2362
2363TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2364 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2365
2366TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
2367
2368TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2369
2370PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2371 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2372
2373PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2374 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2375 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2376 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2377 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2378 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2379 file.
2380
2381PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2382 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2383 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2384 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2385 these two options.
2386
2387PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2388 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2389 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2390 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2391 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2392 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2393 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
2394 address.
2395
2396PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2397 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2398
2399PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2400 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2401 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2402 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2403 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2404 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2405
2406PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2407 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2408 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2409 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2410
2411PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2412 Finch).
2413
2414PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2415 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
2416
2417PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2418 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
2419 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2420 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2421 message.
2422
2423PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2424
2425PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2426 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2427
2428PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2429 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2430 to what was transported.)
2431
2432TF/01 Added $received_time.
2433
2434PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2435 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2436 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2437 spamd_address settings.
2438
2439PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2440 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2441 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2442 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2443 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2444
2445PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2446
2447PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2448 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2449 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2450 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2451 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2452
2453PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2454 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2455
2456PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2457 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2458 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2459 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2460 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2461 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2462 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2463 for failure.
2464
2465PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2466 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2467 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2468 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2469 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2470 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2471 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2472 "input=".
2473
2474PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2475
2476PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2477 driver and ACL definitions.
2478
2479PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2480 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2481
2482PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2483 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2484 understands it better than I do:
2485
2486 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2487 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2488
2489 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2490 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2491 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2492 => three warnings about OTP not working
2493 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2494
2495 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2496 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2497 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2498 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2499 for each call.)
2500 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2501 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2502
2503 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2504 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2505 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2506
2507PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2508 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2509 specified.
2510
2511PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2512 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2513 "Linux".
2514
2515PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2516 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2517 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2518
2519 warn !verify = sender
2520 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2521
2522 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2523 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2524
2525PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2526
2527 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2528 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2529
2530 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2531 nomenclature these days.)
2532
2533PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2534 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2535
2536PH/30 In these circumstances:
2537 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2538 . First host does not offer TLS;
2539 . First host accepts first address;
2540 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2541 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2542 . Second host accepts second address.
2543 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2544 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2545 address.
2546
2547PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2548 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2549 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2550 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2551 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2552
2553PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2554 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2555
2556PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2557 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
2558
2559PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2560 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2561 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2562
2563PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2564 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2565 overlooked.
2566
2567PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2568
2569PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2570 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2571 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2572 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2573 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2574 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2575 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2576
2577 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2578 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2579 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2580 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2581 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2582
2583 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2584 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2585 routed further.
2586
2587PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2588 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2589 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2590 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2591 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2592 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2593
2594PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2595
2596PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2597 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2598 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2599 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2600 printable escape sequences.
2601
2602PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2603 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2604 body only.
2605
2606PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2607 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2608 are as follows:
2609
2610 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2611 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2612 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2613 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2614 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2615
2616 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2617 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2618 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2619
2620PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2621
2622PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2623 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2624 play with."
2625
2626PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2627 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2628 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2629 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2630 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2631 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2632 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2633 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2634 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2635 the log output.
2636
2637PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2638 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2639 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2640 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2641 "make".
2642
2643
2644A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2645----------------------------------------
2646
2647Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2648changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2649needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2650in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2651that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2652release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2653from 4.43.
2654
2655I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
26564.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2657those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2658historical information.
2659
2660
2661Exim version 4.50
2662-----------------
2663
2664 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2665
2666 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
2667 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
2668
2669 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2670 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2671 place.
2672
2673 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2674 filter fails to execute.
2675
2676 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2677 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2678 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2679 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2680 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2681
2682 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2683
2684 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2685 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2686 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2687 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2688
2689 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2690 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2691 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2692 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2693 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2694
2695 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2696
269710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2698
269911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2700 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2701 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2702 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2703
270412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2705 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2706 sender verification.
2707
270813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2709 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2710
271114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2712
271315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2714 connection timeout.
2715
271616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2717 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2718
271917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2720 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2721
272218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2723 information about exactly what failed.
2724
272519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2726
272720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2728 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2729 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2730
273121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2732 It is now set to "smtps".
2733
273422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2735 ignore_target_hosts.
2736
273723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2738 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2739 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2740 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2741 "[x.x.x.x]".
2742
274324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2744 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2745 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2746
274725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2748 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2749 wake it up if nothing else does.
2750
275126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2752 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2753 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2754 end up negative.
2755
275627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2757 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2758
275928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2760
276129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2762 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2763 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2764 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2765 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2766 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2767 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2768 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2769
277030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2771 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2772 than one IP address.
2773
277431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2775 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2776 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2777 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2778
277932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2780 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2781 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2782 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2783 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2784 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2785
278633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2787 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2788 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2789 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2790
279134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2792 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2793 respected.
2794
279535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2796 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2797 $sender_host_address.
2798
279936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2800 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2801 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2802 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2803 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2804 very small.
2805
280637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2807
2808 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2809 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2810
2811 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2812 just the host names, not the priorities.
2813
2814 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
2815 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2816 controlled by a keyword.
2817
2818 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
2819 multiple records are returned.
2820
282138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2822 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2823 domain.
2824
282539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2826
282740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2828 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2829
283041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2831 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2832 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2833
283442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2835
283643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2837
283844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2839
284045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2841 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2842 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2843 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2844 because the tests only now provoked it.
2845
284646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2847 (this can affect the format of dates).
2848
284947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2850 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2851 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2852 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2853
285448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2855
285649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2857 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2858 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2859 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2860
286150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2862 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2863 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2864
286551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2866 autoreply.
2867
286852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2869 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2870 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2871 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2872 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2873 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2874 is going on).
2875
287653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2877 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2878 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2879 the line.
2880
288154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2882 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2883 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2884
2885 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2886 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2887 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2888 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2889 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2890 so I produce this patch..."
2891
2892 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2893 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2894 is not defined.
2895
289655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2897 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2898 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2899 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
2900 CAN-2005-0021
2901
290256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2903
290457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2905 long debug lines gets shown.
2906
290758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2908 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2909
291059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2911
2912 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2913 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2914 of $primary_hostname.
2915
291660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2917 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2918 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2919 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2920 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2921 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2922 by change 4.50/55 above.
2923
2924 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2925 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2926 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2927 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2928 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2929 running as the user.
2930 CAN-2005-0021
2931
293261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2933 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2934 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
2935 CAN-2005-0022
2936
293762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2938 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2939
294063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2941 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2942 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2943 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2944 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2945
294664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2947 This has been fixed.
2948
294965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2950 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2951 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2952 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2953 the caching.)
2954
295566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2956
295767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2958 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2959 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2960 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2961
296268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2963 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2964
296569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2966 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2967 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2968
296970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2970 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2971 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2972 message there.
2973
297471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2975 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2976 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2977
297872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2979 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2980 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2981 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2982
298373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2984 during host lookups.
2985
298674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2987 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2988
2989 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2990
299175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2992 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2993 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2994 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2995 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2996 background.
2997
299876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2999 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3000
300177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3002 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3003 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3004
300578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3006
300779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3008 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3009 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3010 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3011 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3012 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3013 process earlier.
3014
301580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3016 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3017 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3018 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3019 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3020
302181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3022 tables).
3023
302482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3025
302683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3027 "vacation" handling.
3028
302984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3030 OS variants using glibc.
3031
303285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3033
3034
3035----------------------------------------------------
3036See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3037----------------------------------------------------
3038
3039
3040Exim version 4.44
3041-----------------
3042
3043 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3044 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3045 transport
3046
3047 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3048 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3049 place.
3050
3051 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3052 filter fails to execute.
3053
3054 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3055 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3056 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3057 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3058 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3059
3060 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3061 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3062 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3063 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3064
3065 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3066 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3067 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3068 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3069 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3070
3071 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3072
3073 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3074 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3075 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3076 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3077
3078 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3079 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3080 sender verification.
3081
308210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3083 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3084
308511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3086 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3087
308812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3089 ignore_target_hosts.
3090
309113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3092 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3093 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3094 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3095 "[x.x.x.x]".
3096
309714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3098 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3099 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3100
310115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3102 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3103 wake it up if nothing else does.
3104
310516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3106 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3107 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3108 end up negative.
3109
311017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3111 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3112
311318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
3114
311519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3116 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3117 empty pattern.
3118
311920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3120 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3121 one IP address.
3122
312321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3124 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3125 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3126 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3127 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3128 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3129
313022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3131 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3132 respected.
3133
313423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3135 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3136 $sender_host_address.
3137
313824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3139
314025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3141 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3142 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3143
314426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
3145 As per change 25.
3146
314727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3148 (this can affect the format of dates).
3149
315028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3151 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3152 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3153 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3154
315529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3156 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3157 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3158
315930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3160 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3161 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3162 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3163
316431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3165 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3166 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3167
316831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3169 autoreply.
3170
317132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3172 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3173 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3174 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3175 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3176 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3177 is going on).
3178
317933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3180 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3181 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3182 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
3183 CAN-2005-0021
3184
318534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3186 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3187 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3188 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3189 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3190 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3191 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3192
3193 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3194 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3195 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3196 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3197 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3198 running as the user.
3199 CAN-2005-0021
3200
320135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3202 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3203 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
3204 CAN-2005-0022
3205
320636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3207 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3208 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3209 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3210 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3211
321237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3213 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3214 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3215 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3216 the caching.)
3217
321838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3219 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3220 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3221 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3222 because the tests only now provoked it.
3223
3224
3225Exim version 4.43
3226-----------------
3227
3228 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3229 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3230 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3231 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3232 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3233 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3234 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3235
3236 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3237 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3238 the delivery.
3239
3240 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3241
3242 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3243
3244 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3245 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3246 to local_scan().
3247
3248 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3249 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3250 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3251 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3252 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3253
3254 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3255 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3256
3257 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3258
3259 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3260
326110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3262 header_sender only.
3263
326411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3265 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3266
326712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3268 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3269 affecting debugging statements).
3270
327113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3272
327314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3274 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3275 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3276 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3277 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3278 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3279 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3280 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3281 after the received time, and all would be well.
3282
328315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3284 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3285 condition in an expansion string.
3286
328716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3288
328917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3290 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3291 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3292 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3293 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3294 job under whatever limits there are.
3295
329618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3297
329819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3299 space).
3300
330120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3302 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3303 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3304 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3305 return path is set.
3306
330721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3308 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3309 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3310 binary data in such strings.
3311
331222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3313
331423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3315 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3316 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3317 failure, which is pointless.
3318
331924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3320
332125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3322
332326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3324 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3325 Sender: header lines.
3326
332727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3328 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3329 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3330
333128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3332 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3333 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3334 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3335 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3336 happens.
3337
333829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3339 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3340 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3341 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3342 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3343
334430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3345 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3346 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3347 1024.
3348
334931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3350 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3351
335232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3353 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3354
335533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3356
335732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3358
335933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3360
336134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3362 syntax error.
3363
336435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3365
336636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3367
336837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3369 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3370 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3371 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3372
337338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3374 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3375
3376
3377Exim version 4.42
3378-----------------
3379
3380 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3381 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3382 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3383 it was not quoted.
3384 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3385 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3386 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3387 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3388 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3389 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3390
3391 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3392 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3393 verification failure".
3394
3395 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3396 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3397 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3398 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3399
3400 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3401 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3402 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3403 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3404 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3405 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3406 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3407 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3408 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3409 treated as a timeout.
3410
3411 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3412 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3413 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3414 not set for Exim filters).
3415
3416 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3417 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3418 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3419
3420 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3421
3422 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3423 try to make them clearer.
3424
3425 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3426 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3427
3428 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3429
3430 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3431
343210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3433 only the Cygwin environment.
3434
343511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3436 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3437 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3438 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3439 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3440
344112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3442 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3443 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3444 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3445 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3446 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3447 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3448
344913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3450 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3451
345214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3453
3454 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3455 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3456 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3457
3458 To: susanne@some.where
3459
3460 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3461 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3462 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3463 of addresses in From: header lines).
3464
3465 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3466 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3467 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3468
3469 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3470 treated as non-personal.
3471
3472 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3473 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3474
347515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3476
347716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3478
347917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3480 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3481 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3482
348318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3484 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3485
348619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3487 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3488 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3489 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3490 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3491 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3492
349320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3494 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3495 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3496 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3497 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3498 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3499 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3500 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3501
3502 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3503
350421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3505 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3506
350722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3508 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3509 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3510
351123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3512 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3513
351424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3515 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3516 rather than long int.
3517
351825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3519
352026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3521
3522
3523Exim version 4.41
3524-----------------
3525
3526 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3527 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3528 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3529 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3530 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3531 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3532
3533
3534Exim version 4.40
3535-----------------
3536
3537 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3538 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3539
3540 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3541 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3542 socklen_t is defined.
3543
3544 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3545 always exist.
3546
3547 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3548 configured.
3549
3550 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3551 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3552 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3553 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3554 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3555
3556 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3557 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3558 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3559 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3560
3561 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3562 of flapping under certain conditions.
3563
3564 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3565 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3566 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3567
3568 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3569
357010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3571
357211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3573 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3574 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3575 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3576
357712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3578 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3579 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3580 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3581 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3582 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3583 preserved with the message after it was received.
3584
358513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3586 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3587 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3588 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3589 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3590 test suite worked just fine.
3591
359214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3593 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3594 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3595
359615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3597 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3598 string.
3599
360016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3601 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3602 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3603 does not fully solve it.
3604
360517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3606 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3607 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3608 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3609 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3610
361118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3612 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3613 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3614
361519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3616 string, for example:
3617
3618 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3619
3620 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3621 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3622 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3623 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3624 the routers could not see them.
3625
362620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3627 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3628
362921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3630 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3631 output).
3632
363322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3634 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3635 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3636 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3637 that needed quoting.
3638
363923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3640 was not being matched caselessly.
3641
364224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3643 backslashes.
3644
364525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3646 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3647 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3648 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3649 when use_sender is false.
3650
365126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3652
365327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3654
365528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3656
365729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3658 the configuration file.
3659
366030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3661 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3662
366331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3664
366532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3666 bytes in the message body.
3667
366833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3669 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3670 delivery.
3671
367234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3673
367435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3675
367636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3677 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3678 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3679 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3680 another IP address.
3681
3682
3683Exim version 4.34
3684-----------------
3685
3686 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3687 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3688
3689 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3690 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3691 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3692 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3693 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3694
3695 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3696 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3697
3698 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3699 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3700 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3701
3702 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3703 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3704 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3705
3706 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3707 for routers.
3708
3709 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3710 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3711 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3712 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3713 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3714 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3715 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3716
3717
3718Exim version 4.33
3719-----------------
3720
3721 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3722 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3723 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3724 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3725 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3726 default (and expected) setting.
3727
3728 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3729 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3730 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3731 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3732
3733 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3734 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3735
3736 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3737 in domain lists.
3738
3739 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3740 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3741 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3742 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3743 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3744 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3745
3746 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3747 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3748 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3749
3750 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3751 part (NOT match_host).
3752
3753 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3754
3755 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3756 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3757 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3758 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3759 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3760 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3761 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3762 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3763 the same named file.
3764
376510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3766 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3767 when Exim is built.
3768
376911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3770 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3771 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3772 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3773 a host name.
3774
377512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3776 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3777 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3778
377913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3780
378114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3782
378315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3784
378516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3786 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3787
378817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3789 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3790 before starting the TLS session.
3791
379218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3793
379419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3795 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3796
379720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3798 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3799 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3800 colon in the middle).
3801
3802
3803Exim version 4.32
3804-----------------
3805
3806 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3807 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3808 multiple configurations are in use.
3809
3810 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3811 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3812 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3813 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3814 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3815 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3816
3817 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3818 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3819
3820 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3821 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3822 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3823
3824 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3825 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3826 occurs.
3827
3828 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3829 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3830
3831 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3832
3833 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3834 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3835
3836 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3837
3838 -prval:sval
3839
3840 is equivalent to
3841
3842 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3843
3844 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3845 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3846 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3847 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3848 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3849
385010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3851 Exim's behaviour:
3852
3853 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3854 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3855 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3856 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3857 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3858 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3859
3860 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3861 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3862 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3863 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3864 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3865 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3866 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3867 string.
3868
3869 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3870 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3871 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3872 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3873 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3874
387511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3876
387712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3878 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3879 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3880
388113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3882
388314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3884 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3885 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3886 information.
3887
388815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3889 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3890
389116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3892 Three changes have been made:
3893
3894 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3895 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3896 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3897 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3898 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3899
3900 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3901 been restored.
3902
3903 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3904 the modified behaviour.
3905
3906
3907Exim version 4.31
3908-----------------
3909
3910 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3911 Larry Rosenman.
3912
3913 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3914 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3915
3916 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3917 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3918 try to track down a specific problem.
3919
3920 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3921 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3922 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3923
3924 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3925 warning.
3926
3927 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3928 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3929 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3930 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3931 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3932 some earlier ones do not.
3933
3934 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3935
3936 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3937 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3938 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3939 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3940 address literals are enabled, of course).
3941
3942 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3943
394410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3945 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3946 by a command such as
3947
3948 exim -f "" ...
3949
3950 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3951
395211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3953
395412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3955 remained set. It is now erased.
3956
395713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3958 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3959
396014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3961 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3962 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3963 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3964 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3965 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3966 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3967 appropriate error code.
3968
396915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3970 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3971 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3972 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3973 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3974 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3975
397616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3977 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3978 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3979
398017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3981 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3982 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3983 terminate the header.
3984
398518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3986 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3987 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3988
398919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3990 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3991 (4.30/29). In particular:
3992
3993 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3994 imposed.
3995
3996 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3997 to write a maildirsize file.
3998
3999 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4000 the transport, the new value overrides.
4001
4002 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4003 count.
4004
400520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4006 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4007 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4008 space or a tab.
4009
401021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4011 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4012 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4013 the fallback hosts.
4014
401522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4016 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4017 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4018
401923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4020 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4021 using a union.
4022
402324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4024 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4025 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4026
402725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4028
402926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4030
403127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4032
403328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4034 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4035 become corrupted.
4036
403729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4038 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4039 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4040 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4041 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4042 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4043 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4044 too great.
4045
404630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4047 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4048 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4049 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4050 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4051 incorrectly.
4052
405331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4054 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4055 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4056 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4057 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4058 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4059 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4060 cached value only when the same options are set.
4061
406232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4063
406433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4065 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4066 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4067 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4068 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4069
407034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4071 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4072 it is clearly obsolete.
4073
407435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4075 transport.
4076
407736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4078 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4079 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4080 times.
4081
408237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4083 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4084 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4085 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4086 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4087
408838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4089 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4090 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4091 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4092
409339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4094
4095 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4096
4097 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4098 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4099 2^31.
4100
410140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4102 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4103 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4104 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4105 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4106 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4107 $localpart_data.
4108
410941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4110 with the -f command-line option.
4111
411242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4113 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4114 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4115 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4116 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4117 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4118
411943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4120 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4121 line.
4122
412344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4124 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4125 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4126 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4127 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4128 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4129 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4130 buffer is too small.
4131
413245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4133 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4134
413546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4136 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4137 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4138 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4139 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4140 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4141 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4142 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4143 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4144
414547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4146 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4147 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4148
414948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4150 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4151 ACL").
4152
415349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4154 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4155 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4156 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4157 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4158
415950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4160 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4161 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4162 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4163 is set.
4164
416551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4166
416752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4168
416953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4170 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4171
417254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4173 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4174 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4175
417655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4177 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4178 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4179 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4180 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4181
418256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4183 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4184 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4185 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4186 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4187 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4188 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4189
419057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4191 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4192 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4193 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4194 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4195 the test of how many are available.
4196
419758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4198 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4199 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4200 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4201 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4202 new message is started.
4203
420459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4205 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4206
420760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4208 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4209
421061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4211 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4212 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4213 is no long logged.
4214
421562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4216 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4217 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4218 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4219 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4220 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4221 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4222
422363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4224 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4225 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4226 interpreted as octal.
4227
422864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4229 setting.
4230
423165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4232 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4233 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4234 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4235 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4236 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4237
423866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4239 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4240 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4241 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4242
4243 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4244 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4245 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4246 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4247
4248 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4249 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4250 is a bug fix.
4251
4252 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4253 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4254
425567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4256
425768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4258 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4259 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4260 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4261
426269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4263 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4264 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4265 supplied", which is not helpful.
4266
426770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4268 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4269 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4270
427171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4272 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4273 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4274 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4275 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4276 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4277 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4278 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4279
428072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4281 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4282 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4283 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4284 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4285
428673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4287 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4288 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4289 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4290 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4291 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4292
429374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4294 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4295 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4296
429775. Added write_rejectlog option.
4298
429976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4300 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4301 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4302 variables.
4303
430477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4305
430678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4307 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4308 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4309 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4310 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4311 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4312 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4313 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4314
431579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4316 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4317 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4318 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4319 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4320
432180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4322 Haardt.
4323
432481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4325 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4326 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4327 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4328 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4329 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4330 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4331 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4332 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4333
4334
4335Exim version 4.30
4336-----------------
4337
4338 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4339 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4340 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4341
4342 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4343 fixed.
4344
4345 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4346 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4347 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4348
4349 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4350 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4351 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4352 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4353 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4354 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4355
4356 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4357 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4358 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4359 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4360 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4361 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4362 the Exim test suite.
4363
4364 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4365 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4366 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4367 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4368
4369 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4370 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4371 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4372 specify it in this variable.
4373
4374 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4375 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4376 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4377 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4378
4379 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4380 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4381 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4382 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4383
4384 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4385 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4386 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4387 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4388 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4389
4390 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4391
439210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4393 they are logged.
4394
439511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4396 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4397 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4398 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4399 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4400
440112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4402 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4403
440413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4405 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4406 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4407 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4408 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4409
441014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4411 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4412
441315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4414 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4415 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4416
441716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4418 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4419
442017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4421 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4422
442318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4424 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4425 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4426
442719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4428 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4429
443020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4431 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4432 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4433 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4434
443521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4436
443722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4438 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4439 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4440 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4441
444223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4443
444424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4445 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4446
444725. Added .include_if_exists.
4448
444926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4450 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4451 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4452 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4453 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4454 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4455
445627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4457
445828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4459 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4460 this.
4461
446229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4463
446430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4465 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4466
4467 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4468 550 Sender verify failed
4469
4470 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4471 the final line of the response.
4472
447331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4474 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4475 all other user lookups.
4476
447732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4478 delivery time.
4479
448033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4481 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4482 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4483 result into an int without checking.
4484
448534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4486 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4487 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4488
448935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4490 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4491 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4492 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4493
449436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4495 correctly.
4496
449737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4498 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4499
450038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4501 to the empty sender.
4502
450339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4504 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4505 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4506 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4507 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4508 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4509 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4510 panic log.
4511
451240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4513 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4514 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4515 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4516 used.
4517
451841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4519 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4520
452142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4522 timestamps.
4523
452443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4525 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4526
452744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4528
452945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4530 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4531 logs.
4532
453346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4534 as soon as it is encountered.
4535
453647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4537
453848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4539 rewritten to "<>".
4540
454149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4542 recognizes a tab character.
4543
454450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4545 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4546 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4547 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4548
454951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4550
455152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4552 crash.
4553
455453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4555
455654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4557
455855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4559 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4560 2822.
4561
456256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4563 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4564 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4565 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4566 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4567
456857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4569 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4570
457158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4572 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4573 list (.included file names were always shown).
4574
457559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4576 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4577 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4578 root at that time.
4579
458060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4581 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4582
458361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4584
458562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4586
458763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4588
458964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4590 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4591 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4592 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4593 failures to open the logs.
4594
459565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4596 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4597 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4598 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4599 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4600 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4601 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4602
4603
4604Exim version 4.24
4605-----------------
4606
4607 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4608 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4609 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4610 change 4.23/1.
4611
4612 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4613 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4614 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4615
4616 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4617 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4618 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4619
4620 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4621 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4622 causing some misleading effects.
4623
4624 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4625 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4626 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4627
4628 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4629 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4630 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4631 queue-runner function directly.
4632
4633
4634Exim version 4.23
4635-----------------
4636
4637 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4638 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4639
4640 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4641 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4642 was always written to the default place.
4643
4644 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4645 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4646 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4647
4648 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4649
4650 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4651
4652 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4653 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4654 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4655
4656 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4657 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4658 must start.
4659
4660 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4661 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4662 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4663
4664 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4665 command line option is disabled.
4666
4667 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4668 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4669
4670 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4671
4672 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4673
4674 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4675 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4676
467710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4678
467911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4680 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4681 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4682 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4683 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4684 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4685
468612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4687 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4688 timeout.
4689
469013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4691 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4692
469314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4694 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4695
469615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4697 received was valid base64.
4698
469916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4700 name of the variable that was being set.
4701
470217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4703
470418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4705 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4706 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4707 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4708 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4709 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4710
471119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4712
471320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4714 nor realm was specified.
4715
471621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4717 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4718 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4719 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4720
472122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4722 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4723 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4724
472523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4726 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4727 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4728
472924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4730 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4731 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4732 some systems use these upper case variants.
4733
473425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4735 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4736 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4737 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4738
473926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4740
474127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4742 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4743
474428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4745 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4746 expansion variable.
4747
474829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4749
475030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4751 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4752 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4753 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4754
475531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4756 using it.
4757
475832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4759 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4760 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4761
476233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4763 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4764
476534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4766 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4767 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4768 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4769
477035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4771 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4772 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4773
477436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4775
477637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4777 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4778 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4779 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4780 aborted.
4781
478238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4783 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4784 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4785
478639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4787
478840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4789 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4790
479141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4792 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4793
479442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4795 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4796 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4797 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4798 when emails are that large.
4799
4800
4801
4802Exim version 4.22
4803-----------------
4804
4805 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4806 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4807
4808 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4809 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4810 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4811
4812 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4813 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4814 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4815
4816 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4817 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4818 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4819 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4820 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4821
4822 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4823 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4824 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4825 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4826 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4827 ever.
4828
4829 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4830 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4831 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4832 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4833 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4834 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4835 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4836 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4837 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4838 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4839 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4840 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4841 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4842 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4843
4844 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4845 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4846 parameterised it.
4847
4848 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4849 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4850 error should be diagnosed.
4851
4852 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4853 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4854 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4855 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4856 appeared instead of "NULL".
4857
485810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4859 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4860 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4861 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4862 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4863 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4864 proceeds).
4865
4866 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4867 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4868 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4869
4870
4871Exim version 4.21
4872-----------------
4873
4874 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4875 or receiver verification errors.
4876
4877 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4878 name.
4879
4880 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4881 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4882 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4883 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4884
4885 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4886 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4887 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4888 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4889 shouldn't happen again.
4890
4891 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4892 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4893 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4894
4895 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4896 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4897
4898 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4899
4900 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4901 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4902
4903 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4904 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4905 RFC.
4906
490710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4908 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4909 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4910
491111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4912 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4913 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4914 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4915
491612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4917 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4918 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4919 to define what should happen).
4920
492113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4922 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4923 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4924
492514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4926
492715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4928
492916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4930 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4931
493217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4933 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4934 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4935 structure in all cases.
4936
4937 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4938 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4939 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4940 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4941
494218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4943 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4944 domain name.
4945
494619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4947 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4948
494920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4950 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4951
495221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4953 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4954 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4955
495622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4957 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4958 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4959
496023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4961 the book and for uniformity.
4962
496324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4964
496525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4966 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4967 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4968 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4969 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4970 non-existent command as the problem.
4971
497226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4973 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4974 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4975
497627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4977
497828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4979 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4980 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4981
498229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4983 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4984 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4985 timestamps using strftime().
4986
498730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4988 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4989
499032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4991 transport-time rewrites.
4992
499333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4994 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4995 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4996 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4997
499834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4999 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5000
500135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5002 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5003 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5004 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5005 comma and a space.
5006
500736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5008 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5009 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5010 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5011 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5012 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5013 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5014
501537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5016 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5017 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5018 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5019 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5020
502138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5022 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5023 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5024 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5025 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5026 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5027 remaining text gets split now.
5028
502939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5030 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5031 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5032 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5033
503440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5035 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5036 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5037 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5038 $return_path.
5039
504041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5041 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5042 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5043 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5044 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5045 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5046 passed through if needed.
5047
504842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5049 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5050 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5051 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5052 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5053 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5054
505543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5056 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5057 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5058 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5059 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5060
506144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5062 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5063 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5064 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5065 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5066
506745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5068 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5069 noticed.
5070
507146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5072 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5073 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5074 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5075 mayhem of various kinds.
5076
507747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5078 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5079 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5080 the right test for positive values.
5081
508248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5083 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5084 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5085 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5086 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5087 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5088 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5089 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5090 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5091 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5092 envelope.
5093
509449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5095 module.
5096
509750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5098 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5099 forbidding it.
5100
510151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5102 the existing equality matching.
5103
510452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5105 dealing with inode numbers.
5106
510753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5108 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5109 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5110
511154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5112 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5113 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5114 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5115 local_scan().
5116
511755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5118 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5119 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5120 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5121 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5122 relay addresses has also been removed.
5123
512456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5125
512657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5127 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5128 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5129
513058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5131 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5132 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5133 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5134 processing applies to CR:
5135
5136 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5137 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5138
5139 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5140 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5141 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5142 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5143
514459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5145 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5146 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5147
514860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5149 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5150 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5151 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5152 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5153 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5154 arisen.
5155
515661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5157 program routers.
5158
515962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5160 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5161 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5162 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5163 adds:
5164
5165 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5166
5167 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5168
5169 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5170
517163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5172 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5173 not considered personal.
5174
517564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5176
517765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5178
517966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5180
518167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5182 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5183 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5184 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5185 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5186 header lines, and spool format errors.
5187
518868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5189 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5190 for more flexibility.
5191
519269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5193 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5194 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5195
519670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5197 Sabourenkov.
5198
519971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5200 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5201 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5202 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5203 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5204 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5205 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5206 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5207 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5208
520972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5210 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5211 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5212 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5213 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5214 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5215 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5216
521773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5218 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5219 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5220
522174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5222 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5223 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5224 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5225 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5226 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5227 instead of killing the process with assert().
5228
522975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5230 than Unicode encoding.
5231
523276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5233 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5234 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5235 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5236
523777. Added process_log_path.
5238
523978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5240 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5241
524279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5243 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5244
524580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5246 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5247 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5248
524981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5250 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5251 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5252 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5253 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5254 were applied:
5255
5256 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5257 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5258 as invalid.
5259
526082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5261 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5262 they will be used during message reception.
5263
5264
5265Exim version 4.20
5266-----------------
5267
5268The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5269
5270****